Summary
Cindy Chau is a Software Engineer II with seven years of experience building scalable full-stack JavaScript applications, currently contributing to SimpliSafe from Old Toronto. She specializes in modular React/Redux front ends, Node.js server architectures, and both NoSQL and SQL datastores, with a pragmatic focus on performance and maintainability. Cindy has shipped cross-platform Electron apps and production-ready SPAs, leveraging TypeScript, Material-UI, and IPC patterns for data-intensive real-time features. Her background includes accessibility-focused work at Level Access and hands-on experience automating developer tooling and build configurations for open-source projects. She speaks about containerization tooling—Docker, Kubernetes, and Swarm—and maintains a public GitHub as a designer/developer, reflecting a blend of product sensibility and engineering rigor. Notably, Cindy pairs strong front-end diffing and unidirectional data flow practices with practical backend concurrency tactics to keep UIs responsive under heavy data loads.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, French, Chinese