Congchen Cai
Senior Software Engineer at Pebl
Greater Cleveland United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCongchen Cai is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building web and backend systems across startups and large product teams, currently shipping software at Pebl after roles at Flexport and Shopify. He has deep hands-on experience designing testable, loosely-coupled services and optimizing databases from his long tenure at Emerson where he progressed from co-op to scrum master and ERP developer. Comfortable across the stack, Congchen contributes to notable open-source projects such as InstaPy—fixing API regressions and improving database handling—which highlights his knack for maintaining production tooling under changing APIs. Based in Greater Cleveland and pursuing an MS in Computer Science at Case Western Reserve, he pairs practical engineering with mentorship experience from his peer-mentor days, making him effective at both delivery and team collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. candidate Computer Science, M.S. candidate Computer Science at Case Western Reserve UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Changsha Experimental high schoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Engineering minor in Mathematics , Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Engineering minor in Mathematics at The University of Toledo
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
apim10
debug10
instagram10
selenium10
python10
selenium-ide10
automation10
api10
automations10
spring9
webscraping9
spring-mvc9
databinding9
database-management9
flutter6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
InstaPy/InstaPy
Jan 2018 - Apr 2019
📷 Instagram Bot - Tool for automated Instagram interactions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 23 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Congchen contributed to bug fixes, refactoring, and feature enhancements within the Instagram bot project. They addressed issues related to Instagram API changes, including updating code to interact with the web API and fixing errors. The user also improved the bot's functionality by addressing the retrieval of the possible posts amount. Additionally, the user enhanced the database management.
scriptpythonbotautomationclarifai
DPFP/BackendDeveloper
Nov 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:403 commits, 270 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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