Chuhao Jia
Product Design Engineer at Apple
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolChuhao Jia is a Product Design Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience bringing consumer and industrial products from concept to mass production, currently shaping multiple generations of MacBook Air at Apple. He combines deep mechanical design and manufacturing expertise—SolidWorks, AutoCAD, injection molding DFM/DFA—with FEA and computational analysis skills in ABAQUS, ANSYS and MATLAB. Past roles include driving cost and manufacturability improvements for medical diagnostics at Wondfo and lightweight, durability-focused designs for FPV drones, demonstrating an ability to optimize for both performance and scale. Chuhao also contributes to open-source C++ tooling—working on microsoft/vcpkg to resolve cross-platform build and dependency issues—highlighting a strong grasp of build systems and embedded software integration. Known for rapid prototyping, cross-functional collaboration, and reducing unit costs through thoughtful materials and process choices, he blends academic rigor from UCSD and Missouri with practical manufacturing leadership.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering at East China University of Science and TechnologyUniversity of Missouri
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
package-manager-tool10
c-language10
package-manager10
cmake10
lib10
cprogramming-language10
c178
c118
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vcpkg
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 12 PRs, 24 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Chuhao primarily worked on integrating and configuring external libraries within the vcpkg package manager. Their contributions involved modifying CMake files to correctly locate and link dependencies such as Alembic, OpenEXR, and wordnet. They also addressed issues in build configurations and UWP compatibility, demonstrating a focus on ensuring packages function correctly across various platforms. The commits showcase a deep understanding of build systems and package management.
c-plus-plussetuptoolspackage-managermacoscplusplus
ChaoJia/chaojia.github.io
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 15 pushes in 6 months
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