Jonathan Chen
Software Engineer at Meta
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Chen is a software engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance systems in C++, Go, and Rust, currently contributing to Meta from Kirkland, WA. His background spans game engines, compilers, and 3D graphics—work that includes rendering and performance optimization at Ubisoft and cross-platform engine architecture and code-generation tooling at NetVirta. He’s led small engineering teams, improved CI/build systems (conan, cmake), and wrote a clang LibTooling-based code generator to eliminate boilerplate serialization and reflection. An active open-source contributor, he’s worked on core logic and optimizations for the popular PocketMine-MP Minecraft server project, demonstrating deep backend and systems instincts. Jonathan combines low-level systems expertise with practical infrastructure experience, routinely switching languages and domains to solve bottlenecks and shipping robust production code.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Digital Entertainment Technology, Diploma, Digital Entertainment Technology at Nanyang PolytechnicBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science in Real Time Interactive Simulation, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science in Real Time Interactive Simulation at Digipen Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (19)
minecraft10
javascript10
develop10
php10
type-conversion10
server10
pocketmine10
code-optimization9
network-protocol9
protocols9
api-design8
generics6
rust6
go6
android6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
poggit/poggit-phpstan
May 2020 - Feb 2023
PHPStan docker image specifically made for poggit.
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 9 months
docker-imagephpstan
SOF3/Capital
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
An extensible economy API for PocketMine-MP.
Contributions:29 reviews, 151 commits, 45 PRs in 10 months
pocketminepocketmine-pluginseconomy
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