Bao chau
Senior Software Engineer at AppFolio, Inc.
Westminster, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolBao chau is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building web applications using Ruby on Rails and React, currently helping AppFolio deliver property management solutions. He has progressed through engineering roles at AppFolio since 2018, owning features like lease renewal flows and customer onboarding upgrades, and now contributes at a senior level to product delivery. An active open-source contributor, Bao has improved the HospitalRun frontend with practical UX features such as customizable print headers, translations, and form tests—showing attention to accessibility and real-world workflows. Based in Westminster, CA, he combines strong academic foundations (BS in Computer Science, 3.75) with a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable, maintainable front-end and full-stack features. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented and product-minded, with "0 and 1 run in my DNA" reflecting a developer who enjoys solving problems from first principles.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.76, Associate’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.76 at Golden West CollegeHigh School Graduate, Computer Science, High School Graduate, Computer Science at Le Hong Phong High School For The Gifted, HCMC, VietnamCal Poly Pomona
English, Vietnamese
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
2answers
0questions
Github Skills (14)
javascript10
front10
frontend10
web-frontend10
react10
redux9
testing9
acceptance-testing9
css8
html8
ember8
ios6
uipickerview6
ios-automation6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
HospitalRun/hospitalrun-frontend
Mar 2017 - Apr 2021
Frontend for HospitalRun
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 14 PRs, 41 comments in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bao primarily contributed to the front-end of the HospitalRun project, focusing on implementing new features and improving existing ones. They added a customizable print header functionality, including route creation, navigation updates, and translation additions. Further contributions included adding an admitted patient test and refactoring delete message translations. The user also added custom form for labs and appointment today test.
reactemrhospitalrunhospitalrun-frontendjavascript
baoqchau/sympy
Jan 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
pythoncomputer-algebra-systemalgebrapure-pythoncomputer-algebra
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.