Chen Hu
Engineering Manager at Zendesk
Singapore
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChen Hu is an engineering manager based in Singapore with 13 years of experience building modern web products, primarily focused on React and JavaScript-driven user experiences. He progressed from hands-on frontend and full-stack roles to leadership at Zendesk, where he now manages teams delivering customer-facing interfaces and developer tools. Chen has a strong UX sensibility—having worked as a UX engineer and product manager—and drives developer productivity through internal libraries and design systems (notably at Standard Chartered). An active open-source contributor, he helped build the widely used GitHub Trending API by implementing robust data fetching and caching features. He prefers modern stacks (React over Angular) and is pragmatic about opportunities, blending entrepreneurial experience from multiple startups with enterprise-scale delivery.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
First Class Honor Dean's List MOE Scholar Electrical and Electronics Engineering, First Class Honor Dean's List MOE Scholar Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
nodejs10
javascript10
expressjs10
github-api10
github9
apidoc9
api9
caching9
cheerio8
axios8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
huchenme/github-trending-api
May 2018 - Dec 2020
:octocat: The missing APIs for GitHub trending projects and developers 📈
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 6 reviews, 129 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chen primarily contributed to the development of the GitHub trending API. Their work involved implementing API endpoints for retrieving trending projects and developers. The user demonstrated expertise in data fetching and caching mechanisms. The user also worked on refactoring the code and adding features to improve the API's functionality, including the support for spoken languages.
apiexpressjsmissinggithub-trendingnodejs
huchenme/timeline
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:45 commits, 66 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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