Jonathan Chiu Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

Engineering on the Growth team

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

(Macroeconomic-related layoff/reduction in workforce) Front-end focused engineering on the FPI (Financial Products & Infrastructure), Money Movement team

New York City, NY, US

• Sole engineer leading and implementing numerous cross-functional product features and bug fixes, and A/B feature-flagged experiments touching heavily trafficked and mission critical areas of the product – payments.
• Revamped teacher payouts and teacher referrals infrastructure on the platform resulting in increased payouts and more meaningful financial insights of users teachers were referring to Skillshare
• Led and contributed extensively to engineering-wide frontend and backend modernization efforts including designing GraphQL schemas, porting legacy APIs from PHP to GraphQL, migrating core parts of the codebase from.
• Spearheaded multiple performance initiatives including a performance “tiger team” and successfully integrated Lighthouse CI into our deploy process, providing valuable reporting and insights into “Core Web Vitals”.
• Migrated and worked with design team to revamp Skillshare “Projects” and “Class” pages, porting to React/GraphQL/Apollo
• Served as a mentor for teammates and new engineering hires, and conducted values/culture interviews for job candidates across the board

New York City, NY, US

• Integrated “Cloudflare Image Resize” and created an internal API allowing engineers to easily adapt images on the fly to a variety of layouts, and screen sizes, and significantly reduced image payload sizes being sent.
• Led mission critical frontend work in Skillshare’s 2019 “Rebrand” initiative, revamping the product’s entire brand and design – color palette, assets, fonts, and iconography
• Migrated and converted legacy “Search” page and user notifications panel to revamped, modernized experiences utilizing React/GraphQL/Apollo
• Streamlined workflow for image processing, image previews, and cropping of user generated content for “Project” uploads

New York City, NY, US

• Led and implemented initial prototype of Skillshare’s very first integration of React into legacy Backbone codebase, now referred to as “ReactBone” and used extensively internally, and ultimately played a key role in.
• Core engineer for Skillshare’s “Groups” feature, a topic-based discussion platform built out to spur user engagement and conversation, in Backbone/PHP
• Advocated for and led integration of ESLint and Stylelint into development workflows and CI builds, improving overall code quality and establishing our firstset of foundational frontend code standards for Javscript/CSS
• Implemented Skillshare’s first ever statistics insights across all user profiles, breaking down users’ most watched class categories using Backbone/D3.js
• Worked on a variety of quality of life improvements across the platform, mainly product features, bug fixes, and core package upgrades

Boston, MA, US

- Worked with PHP/React as a fullstack engineer on a team focused on discounted and promotional events for Wayfair's "Daily Sales" page- Developed new internal tool that allowed users to create more targeted, and specific events for customers- Improved internal tooling for event creation and event management by implementing new features, and fixing various.

New York, NY, US

- Built and rigorously tested a wide variety of full-stack features for a Heroku, Rails, and AngularJS application. Utilized RSpec/Capybara for testing Rails features, Sinon.js/Chai for testing client-side logic.- Re-architected, built out, and improved chat presence implementation in messaging service for thousands of users, greatly increasing scalability.

Somerville, MA, US

- Successfully acted as feature lead in engineering team’s adoption of Zeus, speeding up overall development and testing workflow- Built a variety of models, controllers, and views on a Rails and jQuery powered application.- Improved the team’s test report mailer in Jenkins, giving engineers more detailed insight into test coverage and failures.

Boston, MA, US

- Led design and implementation of new internal web application from conception to production, streamlining the workflows of sales and marketing teams, utilizing PHP and jQuery.- Updated legacy code, fixed bugs, and implemented new features for internal web and mobile applications.- Created PDF form filling tool that enabled employees to quickly author.

- Coded and maintained company's main website utilizing HTML, CSS, and Javascript.- Established and oversaw social media outlets, ensuring both ends were attractive and relevant to visitors.