Summary
Kai-chieh Chang is a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable, production-ready systems across fintech and consumer platforms. Currently at Google after progressing from feature work on Google Pay for Business, he has a strong backend focus—designing microservices with Go, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, gRPC and MySQL—while contributing to React front-ends and observability stacks like Prometheus, Grafana and Sentry. His background includes quant research at WorldQuant, where he applied financial models to improve trading strategies, and performance work at Microsoft and Google internships that boosted real-world system throughput and memory efficiency. Comfortable bridging product, UX and engineering, he has experience delivering MVPs, setting up monitoring/alerting, and mentoring through TA and interview roles. Based in Taipei and with a master’s in CS from National Taiwan University, he combines technical depth with an interest in psychology and product design, which informs his pragmatic, user-centered approach to engineering. An outgoing collaborator, he also enjoys making new professional connections across teams and disciplines.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Information Engineering, 4.02 / 4.3, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Information Engineering, 4.02 / 4.3 at National Taiwan University
English, Chinese