Jin Cai
Front End Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJin Cai is a front-end engineer in Seattle with eight years of hands-on experience transforming tedious workflows into polished React applications, now building at Amazon. A Biophysics graduate turned developer, he taught himself JavaScript to automate medical lab processes and later scaled that curiosity into production-grade projects—ranging from real-time Firebase apps to service-oriented microservices with NGINX and Postgres. He combines practical UX focus with backend systems thinking (he once seeded ~40M records to stress-test a Vapor service on t2.micro instances), and mentors junior engineers through immersive programs. Always exploring new mediums—from Unity and C# to React Native, D3 and ML—he brings scientific rigor, product-minded scope control, and a knack for shipping pragmatic MVPs under tight deadlines.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Biophysics, Bachelor's degree, Biophysics at University of WashingtonAdvanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack Reactor
Github Skills (26)
docker-image9
dockerfile9
docker-compose8
docker-swarm8
single-page8
containerization8
container7
react7
docker7
material-table7
linting6
eslint-plugin6
material-ui6
appliance5
webapp5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jscholar/ray-tracing
Jun 2021 - Jun 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
jscholar/zhens-appliance-service
Jul 2019 - Mar 2022
A single page webapp for local appliance repair business
Contributions:4 PRs, 41 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 7 months
hostingapplianceservice-workerrepairsingle-page
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