Benny Chau
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBenny Chau is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building consumer mobile and wearable experiences, currently shaping Netflix Games UI from Bellevue, WA. He has a strong Android pedigree, having driven core Android product work at Netflix, led UberFleet Android at Uber, and contributed to Microsoft Teams and several Android Wear apps at Microsoft. Benny combines front-end UX sensitivity with backend integration experience from earlier roles in enterprise systems and ETL, making him adept at bridging product design and engineering. He’s comfortable shipping at scale for high-traffic consumer platforms and has repeatedly worked on mission-critical mobile tooling for operators and enterprise users. A former restaurant general manager turned engineer, he brings operational rigor and cross-functional leadership born of real-world business ownership. Continuous hands-on delivery across startups and large tech teams highlights his pragmatism and ability to iterate quickly on user-facing mobile features.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (18)
animation10
image10
photo10
rotation10
java9
android9
scale9
react8
react-native7
android-imageview7
react-navigation7
android-camera4
cropper4
image-processing2
rxjava2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
uDevel/widgetlab
May 2017 - Dec 2017
Configurable typing indicator for Android
Contributions:50 commits, 4 PRs, 41 pushes in 7 months
android
uDevel/Udacity-Project-1-PopularMovies
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 79 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
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