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{
"meta": {
"theme": "elegant"
},
"basics": {
"name": "Kevin Chen",
"label": "Software Developer",
"picture": "https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/5129994?s=400&v=4",
"email": "kevin.chen.bulk@gmail.com",
"phone": "(202) 738-4916",
"website": "https://kchen.io",
"summary": "I like working with modern tools to create modern webapps.",
"location": {
"address": "",
"postalCode": "20854",
"city": "Potomac",
"countryCode": "US",
"region": "MD"
},
"profiles": [
{
"network": "Twitter",
"username": "kevinmchen",
"url": "http://twitter.com/kevinmchen"
}
]
},
"education": [
{
"institution": "Williams College",
"area": "Computer Science",
"studyType": "Bachelor of Arts",
"startDate": "2011-09-01",
"endDate": "2015-06-05",
"gpa": "3.0",
"courses": [
"Introduction to Programming",
"Data Structures",
"Algorithms",
"Principles of Programming Languages",
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Computer Organization",
"Distributed Systems"
]
},
{
"institution": "Phillips Exeter Academy",
"area": "High School",
"studyType": "",
"startDate": "2007-09-01",
"endDate": "2011-06-05",
"gpa": "3.0",
"courses": [
]
}
],
"skills": [
{
"keywords": [
"HTML / JSX",
"SCSS / CSS",
"Javascript",
"React / Next",
"Redux"
],
"level": "Senior",
"name": "Frontend"
},
{
"keywords": ["Golang", "Java", "Ruby", "Postgres", "gRPC", "Protocol Buffers", "MongoDB"],
"level": "Senior",
"name": "Backend"
},
{
"keywords": ["AWS", "Google Cloud Platform", "Docker"],
"level": "Senior",
"name": "Devops"
}
],
"work": [
{
"company": "Sabbatical",
"position": "Self",
"website": "https://kchen.io",
"startDate": "2020-05-01",
"endDate": "2020-11-01",
"summary": "Worked on a few side-projects.",
"highlights": [
"Chakra UI, a React design system",
"SWR, a library of React hooks for remote data fetching",
"NextJS, a React framework for static/SSR sites",
"grpc-web, a library for using gRPC in the browser",
"Gorm, an ORM library for Golang"
]
},
{
"company": "IrisVR, Inc",
"position": "Full-Stack Developer",
"website": "https://irisvr.com",
"startDate": "2018-10-01",
"endDate": "2020-05-01",
"summary": "IrisVR is the #1 VR platform for the Building Industry.",
"highlights": [
"Built a back-end service that was instrumental in our move to the cloud, allowing thousands of wireless Oculus Quest devices to sync large 3D CAD files to and from Google Cloud.",
"Instrumented our microservices with the latest distributed tracing best practices, allowing us to visualize request lifetime and debug performance bottlenecks.",
"Ported irisvr.com splash site to GatsbyJS, increasing Lighthouse performance scores from 50% to 90%.",
"Golang",
"gRPC",
"Protocol Buffers",
"Google Cloud Platform",
"Firestore",
"MongoDB",
"Google Cloud Storage"
]
},
{
"company": "Tesla Government, Inc",
"position": "Full Stack Developer",
"website": "http://teslagov.com/",
"startDate": "2015-06-07",
"endDate": "2018-09-14",
"summary": "Tesla is a government contractors that delivers streamlined knowledge management solutions to various government agencies.",
"highlights": [
"Java",
"Spring Boot",
"Jenkins",
"React",
"Redux",
"AWS",
"SQS"
]
},
{
"company": "Freelance",
"position": "Rails / Android Developer",
"website": "",
"startDate": "2015-03-15",
"endDate": "2014-09-07",
"summary": "Throughout my senior year in college, I worked on several projects, developing backends in Ruby on Rails and companion Android apps.",
"highlights": [
"Worked on Williams Students Online (WSO), the college website; developed APIs for Dormtrak (dorm reviews) and Factrak (faculty and course reviews).",
"Worked on a Rails project called 'Power,' which attempted to build a score of people's social influence; integrated with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram APIs.",
"Laid down foundational code for a student-led startup called Niuapiao, a TicketMaster-esque webapp, which went on to win $15,000 in a school competition."
]
},
{
"company": "Julintani, LLC",
"position": "Rails / Android Developer",
"website": "https://github.com/julintani",
"startDate": "2014-06-07",
"endDate": "2014-08-07",
"summary": "Worked remotely as an Android developer on a “student app” for the City University of New York.",
"highlights": [
"Wrote a web scraper that crawled a course catalog in PeopleSoft and persisted data to a Rails backend.",
"Developed an Android Fragment that featured a map that updated with bus routes and ETAs in near-real-time (HTTP short polling).",
"Developed fragments that showed a list of courses and the daily dining hall menus."
]
},
{
"company": "Williams College CS Dept",
"position": "Java Swing Developer",
"website": "https://github.com/julintani",
"startDate": "2014-06-07",
"endDate": "2014-08-07",
"summary": "As a research assistant, developed a GUI in Java Swing that assisted biology students in matching salamander individuals based on images of salamanders' posterior spot patterns.",
"highlights": [
"Wrote a feature allowing users to upload photos, crop them, plot points along the salamander spine, and then generate an image of a straightened salamander using curve interpolation.",
"Implemented a page that showed the Top 10 most likely matches based on a selected salamander photograph."
]
}
],
"awards": [
{
"title": "2x Squash All-NESCAC",
"date": "2015-04-10",
"awarder": "New England Small College Athletic Conference",
"summary": "Led varsity squash squad for four years."
},
{
"title": "2x Squash MVP",
"date": "2011-04-10",
"awarder": "Phillips Exeter Athletic Department",
"summary": "Led varsity squash squad for four years."
},
{
"title": "Negley Prize",
"date": "2010-09-25",
"awarder": "Phillips Exeter History Department",
"summary": "A prize awarded to three (out of 200) of the best US history term papers."
}
],
"interests": [
{
"name": "Fitness",
"keywords": [
"Squash",
"Brazilian Jiu-jitsu",
"Hiking",
"Rollerblading",
"Olympic Lifting"
]
},
{
"name": "Guitar"
},
{
"name": "Chess"
}
]
}
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