Jason Chhay Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

Frontend engineer on the Community team. Building Chats & Live Experiences for creators.

San Francisco, California, US

• Fullstack engineer in Community Engagement. Worked on Stream Together, Chat, Channel Points, Predictions, & Polls
• Re-architected and built Twitch’s chat input for 100% of web users to be a customized rich text input as successful A/B Testing Experiment, optimized for client performance and accessibility
• Communicated estimates, requirements, and roadblocks with designers & stakeholders; advised engineering as a frontend expert, improving engineering efficiency by 500%
• Served an integral role as Technical Lead for the Stream Together feature’s Group Capture mode; redesigning critical user flows in React.js & GraphQL to simplify WebRTC call’s UX
• Coordinated & instrumented Playwright automation test suite for a complex, company-critical video call feature that lacked end-to-end testing, greatly reducing risks of regressions
• Led seamless fast-paced development of Stream Together’s first time experience flow, reducing user onboarding time and unblocking the feature’s release to general audience

San Francisco, California, US

University Park, PA, US

• Provide systems support and assistance on Linux servers for CiteSeerX academic search engine.
• Developed and deployed informative website on CiteSeerX search engine through Django web framework, utilizing Python, HTML/CSS, and SQL.
• Researched and tested artificial intelligence search algorithms to optimize search results across 3 million published academic journals.
• Leading project management for front-end development amongst graduate and undergraduate students for Elastic search engine built with Django and Vue.js.
• Established online internal documentation wiki to ensure that contributions and resources can be easily tracked, and existing information can be maintained.
• Full-stack web developer for open-research search engine with Python and Elasticsearch for publications relating to COVID-19 to aid global research effort.

University Park, PA, US

• Collaborating with 24 volunteers to build Django web applications utilized by thousands of students to streamline philanthropy efforts for childhood cancer.
• Managing 2 other developers in UX design and front-end development forinternal web tools through HTML, CSS, jQuery, Vue.js, and Bootstrap.
• Designed and led development for intranet dashboard to provide moreaccessible information for upcoming deadlines and events for volunteers
• Developed frontend for Django-based web application for sharing anonymoustext, image, and drawing-based messages amongst groups through Vue.js.
• Overhauled frontend for online quiz platform to utilize decoupled structure, improve user experience, and make codebase more maintainable.

University Park, PA, US

• Collaborated with 22 volunteers to build Django web applications utilized by thousands of students to streamline philanthropy efforts for childhood cancer.
• Developed frontend for internal web tools based on customer feedback and research through HTML, CSS, jQuery, Vue.js, and Bootstrap.
• Redesigned user authentication login page for improved mobile responsiveness and consistent branding for internal websites.

• Led software program management for 3 student entrepreneurs for a portable and user-friendly proprietary live streaming device for videographers.
• Created user-experience and application flow for communication between Bluetooth live streaming device and mobile phones.
• Designed and developed Python REST API to allow video encoders to be configured for live streaming over wireless communication.

Hickory, North Carolina, US

• Collaborated with interns, product owners, scrum masters, and senior software engineers to develop customer technical solutions through Agile development.
• Built Java Android app that dynamically load custom user interfaces in smart TV set-top boxes for customer demos.
• Configured Bamboo servers and wrote JUnit test cases to provide continuous integration for projects
• Developed Kotlin and Spring Boot REST API for web application to manage lab inventories across different cities.
• Improved image storage efficiency through Python script that prevents extraneous files from being packaged onto a digital media catalog by parsing XML request files.

Mclean, VA, US

• Learned HTML5 and C# in Microsoft Visual Studio to develop a task management web application to help users establish long-term and short-term goals.
• Manipulated a client-side SQL database in order to store dozens of user-generated schedules and goals.
• Attended meetings on project development, management, and innovation for government-contracted web applications

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science, Minor In Engineering Leadership Development And Mathematics

High School Diploma