Sheet 01 · Toronto, Canada · Scale 1:8960
LucasChen
Software engineer building AI tooling and ad tech at Zynga.
● Experience
Elevation profile
01 May 2025 – Present
Software Engineer · Zynga
AdTech team: AI tooling and ad projects.
Toronto, ON
02 May 2023 – Jun 2024
Full Stack Engineering Intern · Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
03 Sep 2022 – Apr 2023
Teaching Assistant · McMaster University
Hamilton, ON
04 May 2022 – Aug 2022
Software Engineering Intern · Exchange Solutions
E-commerce and loyalty platforms: a Shopify app on AWS, plus AR, blockchain and data-visualization work.
▲ Field notes
Now: Zynga, AdTech
Recent work, kept high-level.
01
Ad-config MCP
I designed and led internal tooling for ad-serving configurations at Zynga: a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and tools that let AI assistants work with ad-serving configuration.
02
LiveOps agent
2–3 h~20 minTime to complete one LiveOps workflow
I worked on an AI LiveOps agent that cut a workflow from 2–3 hours to about 20 minutes.
03
High-value ads
I designed and led a project that helps games identify high-value ads.
◆ Sites surveyed
Selected work
The 5 I'd show first.Show everything →
SITE 01EL. 2026tool
Agent Platform
A control plane for safely delegating software work to autonomous coding agents.
A harness-agnostic platform for handing software work to coding agents in Cursor, Claude Code or any other harness. The goal, from my spec: maximize architecture-approved, verified engineering output per dollar and per minute of human attention.
Role Solo: spec, design and CLI (in progress)
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- JSON Schema (Ajv)
- Commander
- YAML
SITE 02EL. 2026product
TennisBooker
Books tennis and pickleball courts the moment booking opens, every morning.
My parents had to set a 7:30 a.m. alarm every week to get courts at our local club, so I automated it. Members set weekly schedules in a web app, and a bot books the courts each morning and texts the results.
Role Solo, full-stack (2023 version with help from Douglas Chen)
- TypeScript
- Playwright
- React
- Express
- PostgreSQL
- Auth0
- Docker
Field report (case study) →GitHub (2023 version) ↗
With Douglas Chen
SITE 03EL. 2024product
PlatefulAI
Mobile meal planner: pick meals, get a grocery list, track calories and protein.
A mobile-first meal planner: choose meals and servings, turn them into a grocery list, and track calories and protein against personal targets. Our team of five built it as a front-end prototype on mock meal data, so the “AI-powered meal prep” step is a UI concept.
Role Team of 5: app shell, Auth0 login, meal-planning flow, deploy
- React
- Vite
- MUI
- Auth0
- Chart.js
- Vercel
Field report (case study) →Live demo ↗
With Mohammad Mohsin Khan, Wajdan Faheem, Jasmine Sun-Hu, Hammad
SITE 04EL. 2023product
CarpoolX
Android app that matches riders headed the same way so they can share a taxi.
CarpoolX matches riders heading to the same destination so they can share a taxi and split the fare, with an upfront fare estimate and safety checks for riding with strangers. Four of us built it as a React Native Android app on a Flask and Firebase backend.
Role Team of 4: repo lead, most of the Flask backend and auth, core screens
- React Native
- Python
- Flask
- Firebase
- Google Maps Platform
Field report (case study) →GitHub ↗
With Henushan Bala, Rafeed Iqbal, Allison Cook
SITE 05EL. 2022hackathon
Rest Day
A workout planner that schedules rest days, not just workouts. Built at DeltaHacks 8.
★ 2nd place, “To Work or Not To Workout” sponsor challenge (AI Endurance), DeltaHacks 8
A weekly workout planner that deliberately schedules rest days, designed to use Fitbit sleep and activity data to decide when to train and when to recover. Willie Pai and I built it in 36 hours at DeltaHacks 8.
Role Team of 2: Fitbit API integration, landing page, deploy
- React
- Fitbit Web API
- styled-components
- Node.js
- Figma
Field report (case study) →Devpost ↗GitHub ↗
With Willie Pai
■ Base camp