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Kevin Chen

Kevin Chen

Software Developer

Potomac, MD, US, 20854
(202) 738-4916

Background


About

About

I like working with modern tools to create modern webapps.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Self

    May, 2020 - Nov, 20206 months

    Worked on a few side-projects.

    • Chakra UI, a React design system

    • SWR, a library of React hooks for remote data fetching

    • NextJS, a React framework for static/SSR sites

    • grpc-web, a library for using gRPC in the browser

    • Gorm, an ORM library for Golang

  • Full-Stack Developer

    Oct, 2018 - May, 20201 year 7 months

    IrisVR is the #1 VR platform for the Building Industry.

    • Built a back-end service that was instrumental in our move to the cloud, allowing thousands of wireless Oculus Quest devices to sync large 3D CAD files to and from Google Cloud.

    • Instrumented our microservices with the latest distributed tracing best practices, allowing us to visualize request lifetime and debug performance bottlenecks.

    • Ported irisvr.com splash site to GatsbyJS, increasing Lighthouse performance scores from 50% to 90%.

    • Golang

    • gRPC

    • Protocol Buffers

    • Google Cloud Platform

    • Firestore

    • MongoDB

    • Google Cloud Storage

  • Full Stack Developer

    Jun, 2015 - Sep, 20183 years 3 months

    Tesla is a government contractors that delivers streamlined knowledge management solutions to various government agencies.

    • Java

    • Spring Boot

    • Jenkins

    • React

    • Redux

    • AWS

    • SQS

  • Rails / Android Developer

    Mar, 2015 - Sep, 20146 months

    Throughout my senior year in college, I worked on several projects, developing backends in Ruby on Rails and companion Android apps.

    • Worked on Williams Students Online (WSO), the college website; developed APIs for Dormtrak (dorm reviews) and Factrak (faculty and course reviews).

    • Worked on a Rails project called 'Power,' which attempted to build a score of people's social influence; integrated with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram APIs.

    • Laid down foundational code for a student-led startup called Niuapiao, a TicketMaster-esque webapp, which went on to win $15,000 in a school competition.

  • Rails / Android Developer

    Jun, 2014 - Aug, 20142 months

    Worked remotely as an Android developer on a “student app” for the City University of New York.

    • Wrote a web scraper that crawled a course catalog in PeopleSoft and persisted data to a Rails backend.

    • Developed an Android Fragment that featured a map that updated with bus routes and ETAs in near-real-time (HTTP short polling).

    • Developed fragments that showed a list of courses and the daily dining hall menus.

  • Java Swing Developer

    Jun, 2014 - Aug, 20142 months

    As a research assistant, developed a GUI in Java Swing that assisted biology students in matching salamander individuals based on images of salamanders' posterior spot patterns.

    • Wrote a feature allowing users to upload photos, crop them, plot points along the salamander spine, and then generate an image of a straightened salamander using curve interpolation.

    • Implemented a page that showed the Top 10 most likely matches based on a selected salamander photograph.

Skills

Skills

  • Frontend

    HTML / JSX

    SCSS / CSS

    Javascript

    React / Next

    Redux

  • Backend

    Golang

    Java

    Ruby

    Postgres

    gRPC

    Protocol Buffers

    MongoDB

  • Devops

    AWS

    Google Cloud Platform

    Docker

Education

Education

  • Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Williams College

    Sep, 2011 - Jun, 2015

    3.0

    Introduction to Programming

    Data Structures

    Algorithms

    Principles of Programming Languages

    Artificial Intelligence

    Computer Organization

    Distributed Systems

  • High School, , Phillips Exeter Academy

    Sep, 2007 - Jun, 2011

    3.0
Awards

Awards

  • 2x Squash All-NESCAC , New England Small College Athletic Conference

    Awarded on: Apr 10, 2015

    Led varsity squash squad for four years.

  • 2x Squash MVP , Phillips Exeter Athletic Department

    Awarded on: Apr 10, 2011

    Led varsity squash squad for four years.

  • Negley Prize , Phillips Exeter History Department

    Awarded on: Sep 25, 2010

    A prize awarded to three (out of 200) of the best US history term papers.

Interests

Interests

  • Fitness

    SquashBrazilian Jiu-jitsuHikingRollerbladingOlympic Lifting
  • Guitar

  • Chess