Jonathan Chu
Software Engineering Manager at IBM
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Chu is a Software Engineering Manager with 16 years of experience leading backend and machine learning teams to deliver production-grade consumer medical and SaaS products. He combines hands-on coding with strategic leadership—driving architecture improvements, mentoring engineers, and shepherding patentable innovations in digital health. At Simple Health he led ML-driven features that cut eye-exam distance error from 22% to 7% and built an OCR system achieving ~95% product accuracy; earlier roles include scaling teams and products that contributed to acquisitions at GitPrime and YesGraph. Now at IBM, he applies deep practical expertise across Python/Django, data aggregation, and ML systems to solve complex, regulated problems. Notably, his contributions touched open-source tooling used in high-profile research (e.g., GitPython’s role in the first black hole image), reflecting a blend of product impact and technical curiosity.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Drew University
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Github Skills (137)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jonathanchu/pickleback
Jul 2011 - Mar 2012
Contributions:82 commits in 7 months
jonathanchu/jonathanchu.is
Mar 2015 - May 2021
My new blog.
Contributions:2 PRs, 139 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 3 months
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