Gideon Chia
Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGideon Chia is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with nine years of full-stack experience building scalable e-learning and big data systems. He combines strong Java and Python expertise with front-end experience in EmberJS and React to deliver features that move metrics—such as an 86% lift in weekly credit card migrations after a secure Lynda-to-LinkedIn Learning migration he implemented. Gideon has led small engineering teams and mentored career transitions (notably guiding a video editor into a software engineer role), and has shipped both backend microservices and data pipelines using Kafka, Samza, and Beam. His background at UC Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science informs a pragmatic approach to testing and tooling—he has driven unit testing adoption and built snapshot regression tools at IXL. Known for turning complex product needs into reliable systems, he balances hands-on coding with people leadership and operational improvements.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyJames Logan High School
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Github Skills (39)
firebase8
google8
nodejs7
mongodb7
react7
flutter7
dart7
sorting6
redux6
javascript6
flutter-apps6
sortable5
higher-order-component5
grid5
letter5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
arrangement-io/arrangespace-server
Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
NodeJS back-end for https://github.com/arrangement-io/arrange-that-client
Contributions:15 commits, 33 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 4 months
arrangejavascriptarrangementnodejsnode
arrangement-io/arrange-that-client
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:73 commits, 167 PRs, 118 pushes in 1 year
reactarrangecssjavascriptbubbles
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