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Steven Chen

@stevenchen

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Senior software engineer specializing in React, TypeScript, and performance.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek frontend or architecture roles where I can drive performance, build scalable React systems, mentor engineers, and collaborate with ML/backend teams to deliver data-intensive, user-facing products.

I am a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years building high-performance web applications and complex browser-based products used by millions of users.

I specialize in React, TypeScript, frontend architecture, and performance engineering, with extensive experience delivering collaborative editors, analytics dashboards, and AI-driven visualization platforms.

At companies including Google, Canva, Globant, and Restb.ai, I led frontend modernization, optimized rendering performance, and designed scalable architectures that improved time-to-interactive and developer productivity.

I collaborate closely with ML and backend teams to translate large backend systems and model outputs into intuitive, production-ready UIs, while prioritizing observability, accessibility, and maintainable component systems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Restb.ai

Feb 2023 - Present (3 years 1 month)

Led frontend development for an AI-powered computer vision platform, designing scalable React/Next.js architectures and optimizing image-heavy interfaces to reduce time-to-interactive by ~40%. Implemented async data workflows, API caching, and observability to improve performance and debugging.

React TypeScript Next.js React Query Performance Optimization Caching Datadog Sentry

Senior Frontend Engineer

Canva

Aug 2020 - Feb 2023 (2 years 6 months)

Built core editor features and performance improvements for Canva's browser-based design editor, reducing editing latency for documents with thousands of elements and enabling real-time collaborative editing at scale.

React TypeScript GraphQL Performance Engineering Design Systems Editor Pipelines

Software Engineer

Globant

Mar 2017 - Jul 2020 (3 years 4 months)

Led frontend modernization and migration to React-based micro-frontend architectures for enterprise clients, delivering interactive analytics dashboards and reusable UI component libraries to improve development velocity.

React Python Component Libraries REST APIs

Software Engineer

Google

Oct 2015 - Feb 2017 (1 year 4 months)

Developed internal monitoring dashboards and frontend components to visualize large-scale infrastructure metrics, and implemented backend Python services and REST APIs for internal analytics pipelines.

Frontend Engineering Python REST APIs Performance Monitoring Internal Tools

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Portland State University

Master of Science, Computer Science

2014 - 2015

Completed a Master of Science in Computer Science at Portland State University from May 2014 to September 2015, focusing on advanced software and systems topics relevant to scalable web applications.