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Tao Chen

@taochen

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Senior full-stack engineer delivering scalable web and cloud-native systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior full-stack or cloud roles where I can lead end-to-end product delivery, improve reliability and performance, and work in collaborative, impact-driven teams.

I am a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 7+ years building high-performance web applications, cloud-native systems, and end-to-end solutions across AI/ML, fintech, healthcare, and SaaS domains.

I have led full-stack projects as a founding engineer and senior contributor, modernizing legacy systems, designing microservices and serverless architectures, and delivering observability, CI/CD, and performance improvements that increased reliability and client adoption.

My technical strengths include React, Next.js, Vue, Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby on Rails, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and robust testing and monitoring practices; I focus on accessibility, scalability, and measurable impact.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Founding AI Full-Stack Engineer

Creatify AI

Jun 2024 - Aug 2025 (1 year 2 months)

Built React/Next dashboards and Node.js + Rails microservices for AI-powered video ad workflows, implemented AWS infrastructure with Terraform and CI/CD, and delivered a public API adopted by 30% of enterprise clients in Q1.

React Next.js Node Ruby on Rails AWS Terraform GitHub Actions Redux

Senior Software Engineer

HeySam AI

Aug 2023 - Jun 2024 (10 months)

Modernized healthcare and fintech platforms with React, Vue, Angular frontends and event-driven Node.js backends, built meeting bot interfaces and Slack AI chatbot, and improved observability and automated testing coverage.

ZoomSDK React Vue.Js Angular Node RabbitMQ Zoom SDK Prometheus ELK Jest Cypress

Founding Engineer

WiFrost Inc

Jul 2021 - Jul 2023 (2 years)

Spearheaded frontend (React, Vue, Next) and backend (Go, Rails) development for B2B SaaS, built serverless AWS architectures and CI/CD pipelines, and modernized legacy systems raising test coverage to 99% and reducing code complexity by 15%.

React Next.js Vue.Js Go Ruby on Rails CI CD DynamoDB Observability

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Adapstrum Inc

Jun 2018 - Jul 2021 (3 years 1 month)

Built cloud-connected React dashboards and FastAPI/Django/Go backends for embedded devices, designed dynamic spectrum allocation systems, and developed C# automation and authentication tooling to optimize performance and integration.

React fastAPI Django Go C++PostgreSQL REST APIs Embedded Systems Performance Optimization

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

San Francisco Bay University

Master of Science, Computer Science

2021 - 2022

Completed a Master of Science in Computer Science focusing on advanced software engineering and cloud-native systems from 09/2021 to 12/2022.

University of Arizona

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics

2014 - 2018

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from 09/2014 to 05/2018 with coursework spanning software engineering and applied mathematics.