Hi, I'm Julian Chen

10 years of experience working in the various successful web and mobile applications development. Spearheaded development efforts in lead roles to help startups(incl. Messly, Trustcors Systems) land successful fundraising rounds. Continuously learning new technologies and keeping up-to-date with the latest technologies of Web and AI. Proven ability in building REST APIs, Single Page Applications, SEO improvement, Blockch network, and AI based application.

10

Years of Experience

  • Build monolith/microservice backend applications with Node.js, Django and Laravel

  • Proficient in SQL queries and using ORM libraries (TypeORM, Prisma) to interact with the DBMS

  • Implement GraphQL schema, queries and mutations inside the backend applications

  • Familiar with SQL, NoSQL databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server and MongoDB

  • Write CI/CD scripts with CircleCI and deploy application automatically with Docker, Kubernetes and AWS services

  • Deploy frontend/backed application on AWS, Heroku, GCP, Netlify

  • Increase the search speed and performance by integrating ElasticSearch to the application

  • Cache data on backend using Redis and Memcached

  • Third-party authentication service with Firebase and Auth0

  • Build beautiful, responsive UI with reusable components(SFCs) using React and Vue

  • Utilize Remix framework to build full stack application

  • Implement public web pages with improved SEO and loading speed, using Next.js and Gatsby.js

  • Optimize performance of the application with Lazy Loading and Page Splitting

  • Awesome experience in CSS frameworks and design libraries with deep knowledge of HTML/CSS

  • Pixel-Perfect implementation of the website according to the design provided by figma

  • Unit tests, integration tests and e2e tests with React Testing Library, Enzyme and Cypress

Resume

Education & Experience

Bachelor of Computer Science

Nanyang Technological University / 2008 - 2012

  • Studied ML(machine learning), AI(artificial intelligence), web development area
  • Researched ML-translation engine with corpus database written by Java and Python
  • Rebuilt web application for school community platform

My Experience

Software Engineer | Computer Vision | AI/ML/DL

SHUTTERSTOCK, Singapore / Sep 2021 - Apr 2023

  • Structured and developed a website provides free high-quality images & videos to drive traffic into Shutterstock official website eventually.
  • Improved the page speed by 17% for the ecommerce site that generates $21M annually in revenue by implementing Code-Splitting and Optimizing performance with React, GraphQL and Apollo.
  • Designed and implemented AWS pipeline that performs image processing and video transcoding.
  • Worked with Computer Vision, Deep Learning technologies to solve realtime image/video analytic and processing(image classification, celebrity recognition, etc).
  • Worked closely with product manager to deploy & maintain the production server with 99.9% uptime

Senior Software Engineer | Full Stack Developer | Blockchain Developer

MESSLY, United Kingdom / Apr 2019 - Aug 2021

  • Take the main responsibility of UK doctors Jobs board development with working closely with theproduct team.
  • Contributed significantly to the development of additional REST API endpoints.
  • Supported other people in the team to learn Elm by providing code review.
  • Planed and executed SEO strategy of the SPA; significantly increased organic search traffic.
  • Worked directly with CTO to assist server migration with setup new CI/CD pipeline.
  • Developed a blockchain network from scratch specialized in storing UK doctors’ information(ID, Reference, etc).

Software Engineer | Mobile Developer

TRUSTCORS SYSTEMS Inc. / Apr 2016 - Apr 2019

  • Worked closely with distributed team members to develop real-time audio/video chat mobile appsuntil successful beta launch to iOS/Android app stores
  • Identified and resolved performance bottlenecks in various screens when they had a huge list.
  • Provided support to the web Single Page Application improvement and new functionality implementation.
  • Supported the development of backend APIs serving WS connections.

Software Engineer

SINOCOM SOFTWARE GROUP, Hong Kong / Sep 2013 - Mar 2016

  • Responsible for spearheading teams that handled the software development life cycle for 10 client projects, end to end.
  • Built modern web applications, microservices, Web Services (incl. REST/SOAP) and mobile applications with industry best practices.
  • Introduced a new CI/CD pipeline and updated the scripts as necessary to improve existing CI practices.

See my CV

Portfolio

Some of my most recent projects

FREESTOCK
Freestock is a library that provides free, high-quality photos, vectors, and videos.
MESSLY JOBS
Messly Jobs focuses on helping UK doctors land their dream jobs in healthcare.
MSGSAFE.IO
MsgSafe.io is a privacy-focused email service with audio/video chat functionalities based in one of the most secure jurisdictions in the world

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