Heng Cai
Co-Founder at Statelink Express, INC
Spokane Valley, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolHeng Cai is a seasoned backend engineer and co-founder with 12 years of experience building high-scale payment platforms and automation systems. He brings deep expertise in Mastercard token lifecycle management, secure API design, rate-limit mitigation, and reliability engineering, with a proven track record at PayPal improving authorization success and cutting retry traffic by hundreds of thousands of calls. At Statelink Express he translated logistics operational pain points into scalable, auditable backend workflows that reduced manual overhead across same‑day delivery operations. Comfortable across Java, JavaScript, Python, and Node.js, Heng owns end-to-end system architecture and has repeatedly delivered business-critical integrations under aggressive timelines. He pairs hands-on implementation—finding and fixing 50+ high-traffic input validation issues—with product-minded thinking that enables strategic merchant partnerships. Based in Spokane Valley, he blends startup grit with enterprise-grade payment security experience to ship reliable, cost-conscious systems.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, RiversideBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Washington State UniversityMaster's degree, Software Development, Master's degree, Software Development at Boston University
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Github Skills (196)
ui-components10
javascript-framework10
javascript10
idris10
rust10
json10
typescript10
progressive10
amd10
commonjs10
vue10
vue-loader10
css-modules10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hanai/hanai.github.io
Aug 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:153 pushes, 4 branches, 2 issues in 3 years 8 months
hanai/vvex
Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 86 commits, 67 pushes in 4 months
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