James Chen
@jameschen
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer delivering scalable cloud-native web platforms.
What I'm looking for
I am a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with 7+ years designing and delivering scalable web applications and cloud-native solutions across startup and enterprise environments.
I build secure, high-performance systems using React, TypeScript, Java, Python and microservices architectures, and I’ve delivered features that improved efficiency, page load times, and customer retention.
At HubSpot I engineered distributed backend services processing 5M+ daily events, designed AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, and led a team of seven developers to raise delivery velocity and reliability.
Previously at ClickUp I delivered real-time collaborative features, improved test coverage and performance, and championed quality and agile practices to accelerate releases and reduce production incidents.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Released end-to-end CRM features driving 20% efficiency improvement and 15% higher customer retention; engineered distributed microservices processing 5M+ daily events with 99.9% uptime and delivered frontend optimizations that improved page load times by 40%.
Delivered scalable full-stack features for a SaaS product used by 2M+ users, built a real-time collaborative whiteboard reducing latency under 200ms and increased adoption by 28%, and raised test coverage from 65% to 92% reducing incidents by 30%.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Houston
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2014 - 2018
Completed a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, covering software engineering, algorithms, and systems development from 2014 to 2018.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
OpenAPI
Blockchain
D3.js
Chart.js
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
DigitalOcean
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
Kubernetes
Jenkins
CircleCI
GitHub Actions
Jenkins X
GitLab CI
Salesforce
DB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
SQLite
MariaDB
Cassandra
CouchDB
Gmail
Node.js
Django
Spring Boot
Ruby on Rails
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
three.js
Neo4j
Microsoft Teams
Redis
Terraform
Azure DevOps
Jira
Gradle
Emscripten
axios
Lodash
JavaScript
Java
Kotlin
WebAssembly
HubSpot
Kafka
ExpressJS
FastAPI
Grafana
Prometheus
iOS
Heroku
Trello
ClickUp
Basecamp
GraphQL
Firebase
Socket.IO
Elasticsearch
Serverless
Netlify
monday.com
RSpec
pytest
JUnit
React Testing Library
uWSGI
NGINX
Apache HTTP Server
LiteSpeed
Gunicorn
Zapier
IFTTT
s3-lambda
Octopus Deploy
Workato
Integromat
LangChain
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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