Ian Chiao
Senior Software Engineer at PayPal
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Chiao is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with a decade of professional experience building web, mobile, and desktop applications across payments, music software, messaging, and IoT. He currently contributes to PayPal’s engineering efforts and previously led frontend development at Positive Grid, where he migrated a graphic-intensive codebase to React and optimized an eCommerce checkout serving 40k+ daily users. Ian emphasizes both developer experience and user experience, driving process improvements like interview and PR practices, weekly knowledge-sharing, and accessibility and SEO wins. His background includes Android SDK design and real-time messaging platforms, giving him a strong cross-platform perspective from device-level SDKs to high-traffic web frontends. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and curious—constantly adopting new technologies to build enjoyable, life-simplifying products.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Fu Jen Catholic University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (40)
payment-service9
visa9
checkout9
paystack8
adyen8
google-pay8
gcloud8
payment-processing8
payment8
braintree8
payment-gateway8
sdk-nodejs8
planetary8
bigcommerce8
square7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chiaogu/synth
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:101 pushes, 24 branches in 6 months
chiaogu/stolen-sword
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:158 commits, 11 pushes in 2 months
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