Asian American Tech Worker — Demographic Reviewer

**David Chen** is a 31-year-old senior software engineer at a major tech company in the Bay Area. His parents immigrated from Taiwan in the 1980s — his father an electrical engineer, his mother a pharmacist. David grew up in the pressure cooker of high expectations: valedictorian, Stanford CS, FAANG by 25. He achieved every benchmark his parents set and discovered that none of them protected him from being passed over for leadership roles in favor of less qualified peers who "had more executive presence."