Eric Chiang
Senior Software Engineer at ID.me
Herndon, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Chiang is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient web and back-end systems that turn data into business value. He has a track record of automating billing and operational workflows to scale capacity without proportional cost increases, improving performance (core feature +60%) and making platforms audit-ready for enterprise customers. Comfortable across Python/Django, PostgreSQL and AWS, he has tackled hard operational problems—from race conditions and memory bottlenecks to schema evolution and multi–time-zone support—while owning CI/CD, monitoring and security improvements. He also contributes to open-source JavaScript learning material, helping improve Exercism exercises through refactors and quality-driven changes. Based in Herndon, VA, he combines product-minded collaboration with hands-on engineering to deliver measurable cost and reliability gains.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
refactoring10
jestjs10
refactor10
jtest10
jes10
tracks9
pause4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/javascript
Oct 2018 - May 2019
Exercism exercises in JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 20 PRs, 7 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on improving the Exercism JavaScript track. Their commits involved refactoring and linting existing exercises, including changes to the `two-fer`, `bob`, `hamming`, `simple-cipher`, `diffie-hellman`, `acronym`, `isogram`, `run-length-encoding`, `perfect-numbers`, `roman-numerals`, `series`, `proverb`, `all-your-base`, `largest-series-product`, `minesweeper`, `meetup`, `scrabble-score` and `matrix` exercises. These changes included migrating from default to named exports, code quality improvements, and adhering to style guidelines.
javascriptexercismexercism-exercisesexercism-trackcommunity-contributions-paused
serixscorpio/squarebean
Sep 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 7 branches, 1 tag in 6 years 5 months
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