Da-jin Chu
Staff Software Engineer at Alignable
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDa-jin Chu is a Staff Software Engineer in Boston with 11 years of experience building scalable web platforms and developer workflows for small businesses. At Alignable he led a Rails-to-React/Elixir migration that cut LCP by 63% and reduced latency while enabling 20+ engineers to adopt the new stack through a custom Node.js SSR proxy. He has driven cross-team adoption of TypeScript, Storybook, and a design system, rebuilt onboarding to boost new user activation, and increased AI codegen agent success from 40% to 50% by creating cloud devboxes and an evaluation suite. A founder of Sandbox at Northeastern, he pairs product-minded engineering with hands-on mentorship and a history of shipping API tooling and performance improvements at organizations like GitHub and MITRE. Notably, he combines deep frontend performance work with practical infrastructure solutions that accelerate both developer velocity and user experience.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Enrollment, Dual Enrollment at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityMass Academy of Math and ScienceBedford High School
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (142)
vue-ssr10
resumable10
qwik10
react-ssr10
full-stack10
vue10
server-side-rendering10
vite10
blitz10
vitejs10
react10
javascript9
assetbundle9
redis-client9
sdk9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sandboxnu/create-sandbox-app
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Set up a full stack web app in one command. CI/CD hooks + AWS deploy included.
Contributions:63 commits, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
reactaws-deployfull-stackci-cdset-up
dajinchu/apps-for-good
Mar 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:126 commits, 4 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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