Vanessa Chen

Vanessa Chen is a Software Engineer at Abnormal AI, where she works on the Inbound Email Product Systems (IEPS) team—building the backend infrastructure that powers message remediation and threat removal across user inboxes. Since joining as a new graduate, Vanessa has quickly taken on high-impact projects, leading design reviews, collaborating with senior engineers, and contributing to the company’s core detection systems. Whether tackling malicious message workflows or streamlining internal tooling, she brings a product-focused mindset and a love of building to every project.

What’s stood out to Vanessa is how quickly engineers are trusted to lead. “From the beginning, I was writing design docs, shipping features, and making real product decisions,” she says. Along the way, she’s embraced Abnormal’s AI-native development environment—using tools like Cursor to explore codebases, build faster, and automate repetitive tasks. Whether shipping internal tools during company-wide AI hackathons or improving remediation systems for global users, Vanessa says Abnormal gives her the freedom—and the challenge—to grow every day.