Alice Chen
Software Engineer at Amazon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlice Chen is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building front-end and full-stack systems, currently contributing at Amazon from New York. She has a strong background at Palantir where she developed production-grade software, and earlier experience that spans academia and media including NYU and Vogue. Alice is an active open-source contributor to visualization tooling, notably improving SVG rendering and image support in the popular sigma.js graph library to enhance cross-browser compatibility and large-node visualizations. She combines pragmatic engineering with attention to UX details, regularly fixing subtle rendering and interaction bugs across browsers. Colleagues describe her as a reliable problem-solver who moves between research-oriented and product-driven environments with ease.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Brooklyn Technical High SchoolBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at New York University
Chinese, English, French
Github Skills (7)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
javascript10
svg10
graph-drawing10
webgl9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jacomyal/sigma.js
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
A JavaScript library aimed at visualizing graphs of thousands of nodes and edges
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 15 PRs, 8 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alice primarily focused on improving the SVG rendering capabilities of the sigma.js library. Their contributions include fixing SVG-related bugs, such as issues with drag nodes and label rendering in Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox. Furthermore, they introduced image support, allowing for the display of images within graph nodes and modifying existing plugins. This indicates a focus on enhancing the library's functionality and compatibility.
javascriptgraph-drawingdata-visualizationgraph-drawing-frameworkwebgl
palantir/sigma.js
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:68 PRs, 15 pushes, 6 branches in 10 months
javascript-libraryjavascriptdedicatedgraph-drawinggraph
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