Chee Chew P'26

Chief Product Officer, Zapier

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education

  • M.S., Computer Science, MIT
  • B.S., Computer Science, MIT

Chee has more than 30 years of experience leading product and engineering teams across consumer and business products and services.

He is currently the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Zapier leading the product and engineering team. Previously, Chee served as the Chief Product Officer at mParticle and Twilio helping the engineering teams to scale.

Chee was Vice President of Consumer Engagement at Amazon, which was  was responsible for the shopping experience across web and mobile and for the retail performance marketing.  He was also responsible for Amazon’s global IT.

Prior to Amazon, Chee was Vice President of Engineering at Google, where he was responsible for Google’s real-time communications efforts, like Google+ Hangouts and Google Chrome. He was the site lead for the Google Seattle and Kirkland offices, overseeing logistical operations. Before Google, Chee worked at Microsoft for 14 years, hacking on the Windows 95 start menu and taskbar, Internet Explorer, mobile devices and Xbox Live. 

Chee went to MIT where he achieved his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Computer Science as part of a co-op with Hewlett Packard Labs in Palo Alto. Chee met his wife, Christine at MIT. They have two kids and have lived in the Seattle area since 1993.