Chong Chen
Software Engineer at Tencent
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChong Chen is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in Java backend development, data analysis, and system optimization, currently advancing his skills through a Master of Engineering in Information Systems at Northeastern University. He has practical cloud and virtualization experience at Tencent and has hands-on full-stack experience from a Shanghai Jiao Tong University internship where he optimized ordering workflows, implemented caching and sharding, and improved database performance for a high-traffic food delivery app. Comfortable across Spring Boot, Redis, MySQL, and frontend frameworks like Vue.js, Chong also contributes to open-source UI-focused projects—having improved macOS UX features such as de-fullscreen buttons and thumbnail labeling in a popular alt-tab repo. He combines production-grade engineering with a pragmatic focus on performance and user experience, and brings a track record of turning complex backend challenges into responsive, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering - MEng, Information System, Master of Engineering - MEng, Information System at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Technology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (7)
swift10
window-management10
macos10
user-interface10
ui-design10
swiftui-app4
swiftui4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lwouis/alt-tab-macos
Oct 2023 - Nov 2025
Windows alt-tab on macOS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 13 PRs, 70 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chong primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience within the macOS application. Their contributions include implementing a button to de-fullscreen windows, refactoring and improving the preferences panel with visual illustrations, and updating the thumbnail view to display application names or titles. The user also addressed several UI-related bugs and incorporated a feature to enable cursor following the focus.
alt-tabmacoswindow-managertask-switcherexpose
Allsochen/clion-m2cmake
Jul 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 42 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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