Chenyan Mao
Senior Software Engineer at TarkTalk
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolChenyan Mao is a senior software engineer and systems architect based in Sydney with 12 years of experience building scalable, high-performance products across cloud, serverless, and Kubernetes environments. He blends full‑stack engineering, DevOps and solutions architecture—shipping event-driven pipelines, automated delivery pipelines, and production Haskell services on AWS. A hands-on AI leader and entrepreneur, Chenyan has led AI product engineering and early-stage MVPs for healthcare and wearable decision‑grade AI (TarkTalk), and he co-founded Cthroo where he translated business needs into technical roadmaps and helped with fundraising. He is a prolific open-source maintainer (50+ npm modules, millions of monthly downloads) and has contributed to high-profile projects like nodejs.org, conventional-changelog and left-pad. Comfortable across React, Node.js, Python, and cloud services (EC2, Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3), he also brings uncommon depth in Haskell and multimodal AI orchestration. Chenyan pairs technical breadth with product instincts—preferring solutions that are as operationally resilient as they are innovative.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Monash Professional PathwaysMaster's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at University of Wollongong
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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27answers
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Github Skills (61)
babel610
git10
compatible10
javascript10
strings10
lib10
postgresql10
npm10
web-application10
package-management10
text-manipulation10
testing10
gulp10
s610
nextjs10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
andreypopp/autobind-decorator
Sep 2016 - Dec 2018
Decorator to automatically bind methods to class instances
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:59 commits, 17 PRs, 57 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Chenyan primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of a JavaScript library. Their work included fixing bugs related to IE11 compatibility, specifically addressing issues that caused "Out of stack space" errors. Additionally, the user refactored the library by exporting `boundMethod` and `boundClass` as modules for better tree-shaking, and improved unit tests to increase the robustness of the codebase. They also upgraded the project's toolchain to incorporate the latest specifications.
instancesdecoratortypescriptbind
you-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-Lodash-Underscore
Jan 2016 - Aug 2022
List of JavaScript methods which you can use natively + ESLint Plugin
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 124 commits, 98 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Chenyan primarily focused on improving the codebase and adding features to the ESLint plugin designed to identify and suggest native JavaScript alternatives to Lodash and Underscore methods. The user refactored existing code, improved rule names, and updated the configuration of the ESLint plugin to offer default settings and better customization. They also fixed various issues related to rule logic and configuration.
nativeeslintlodashjavascriptreduceright
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