Boris Chan
Software Engineer at Meta
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBoris Chan is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building scalable web, mobile, and cloud systems, currently contributing to Reality Labs at Meta. A University of Waterloo CS student-turned-professional, he combines minimalist coding principles with pragmatic engineering to deliver measurable business impact. At Flexport he redesigned quoting and search systems—cutting search latency from 20s to under 2s, reducing quote turnaround dramatically, and preventing millions in revenue leakage. His background spans Android, frontend React work, GraphQL migrations, Kafka ingestion pipelines, and AWS integrations, showing versatility across the stack. Notably, he has repeatedly translated product friction into automated systems that save operator time and company costs at scale. Based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, he pairs strong technical breadth with a focus on clean, maintainable code and operational outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese, ChineseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
boris1022chan/boris1022chan.github.io
Nov 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 80 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 10 months
boris1022chan/music-downloader
Dec 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years
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