Richard Chu
Software Engineer at Notabase
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Chu is a full-stack software engineer with 12 years of experience, specializing in React and TypeScript and currently building core AR/VR apps at Meta Reality Labs. He founded Notabase, an open-source "second brain" note-taking app that reached 500+ GitHub stars, showcasing his ability to ship product-focused, community-adopted tooling using Next.js, Supabase, and Tailwind. A Princeton CS graduate who also studied at ETH Zurich, Richard bridges front-end UX and backend systems, shipping serverless, Postgres-backed solutions. He combines startup founder instincts with enterprise-scale platform work, often translating personal productivity insights into robust, user-centered features.
12 years of coding experience
ETH ZurichBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (159)
realtime10
networked10
postgresql10
postgres10
richtext10
hyper10
wysiwyg10
websockets10
extensible10
firebase10
auth10
javascript10
client-library10
browser10
editor10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
PrincetonACM/princetonacm.github.io
Feb 2015 - Mar 2018
The official website for Princeton ACM.
Contributions:60 commits, 125 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 1 month
acmprincetonjekyll
churichard/friendcast
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 3 pushes, 8 issues in 5 months
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