Cindy Chau
Software Engineer II at SimpliSafe
Old Toronto, Ontario, United States
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Top SchoolCindy 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
Github Skills (31)
javascript10
happy10
open-source10
typescript10
ethereum10
blockchain10
serenity10
consensus9
end-to-end-encryption9
storage9
sdk9
filecoin9
cryptocurrency9
react8
ipfs8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
web3/web3js-landing
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:5 reviews, 76 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 3 months
sweetpea22/M-magazine
Sep 2019 - Apr 2022
A magazine's website built with Django
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
pythondjango-frameworkdjangodjango-blogdjango-project
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