Tim Chen
Software Engineer at Moment
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTim Chen is a software engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack web products and leading engineering teams in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s shipped features across payments, subscriptions, collaboration tooling and community moderation at companies like Repl.it, NerdWallet, and Lithic, progressing from hands-on engineer to short-term engineering manager. Comfortable across TypeScript/JavaScript, Node/Express, React and Postgres, Tim also contributes to open-source projects such as freeCodeCamp/chapter where he helped scaffold a Next.js stack, add server tests, and improve Docker and role-modeling features. His background as a teacher and curriculum developer informs a practical, user-focused approach to product design and developer tooling. Colleagues describe him as a builder who balances shipping pragmatic solutions with strengthening team processes.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Secondary Mathematics Education, Bachelor of Science (BS), Secondary Mathematics Education at New York University
Github Skills (14)
typescript10
nodejs10
nextjs10
typescripts10
expressjs10
react10
typescript-types10
api-design9
dockers9
jestjs9
testing9
docker9
database-design8
typeorm7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
freeCodeCamp/chapter
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
A self-hosted event management tool for nonprofits
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 9 commits, 13 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Tim contributed to the foundational setup of the application, including the initial skeleton using Next.js, Node/Express, and React. They implemented API routes and addressed Docker-related configurations. The user also incorporated testing, specifically adding server-side tests, modifying the next.config.js, and cleaning up imports. Furthermore, they worked on model-related features, adding role tables and refactoring existing ones.
management-toolhostedevent-managementnonprofits
timmyichen/historical-word-cloud-generator
Jul 2017 - Sep 2019
Word cloud generator based on past US newspapers from the library of congress. Includes explanations for algorithms. Meant to be used to teach algorithms alongside history.
Contributions:49 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
wordcloud
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