James Chuong
Staff Software Engineer at Syllable AI
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Chuong is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems and developer tooling across performance, CI/CD, and certificate management domains. Based in California on an H1B, he blends platform engineering and frontend work—from React data visualizations to automation of customer certificates and containerized pipelines—delivering pragmatic operational tooling for production teams. At Netflix’s Lemur project he contributed backend issuer integrations and async certificate models, highlighting expertise in security-sensitive infrastructure. His career spans startups and enterprise products where he repeatedly automated brittle workflows (Safari test farms, device42 integrations, UEFI recovery) to reduce operational toil. A University of Waterloo CS graduate, he pairs low-level systems experience (C++, Windows APIs) with modern cloud-native practices to move features from prototype to resilient production.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (9)
ssl10
python10
openssl10
security10
flask-ask9
flask9
aws9
api-design8
postgresql7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/lemur
Nov 2017 - Oct 2018
Repository for the Lemur Certificate Manager
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 25 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the Lemur Certificate Manager's backend functionality. Their work included developing a CSR export plugin, fixing issues in the DigiCert issuer plugin, and adding support for the DIGICERT_ORDER_TYPE configuration option. They also introduced the `PendingCertificate` model for asynchronous certificate issuing and updated certificate-related schemas and views. In addition, they made enhancements to the certificate-related views and models, showing a focus on certificate management and issuer integrations.
pythonsslssl-certificatessecuritytls
jchuong/qmk_firmware
Aug 2017 - Jul 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years
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