Kean Tan
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolKean Tan is a Staff Software Engineer in Mountain View with 17 years building scalable web platforms from UI to ops. He began as a front-end engineer, authored a JavaScript framework and later architected a custom PHP MVC framework that powered Chegg, and has deep experience designing high-traffic SQL schemas with memcached-backed performance. At LinkedIn he’s progressed from senior engineer to manager and back to staff-level individual contributor, blending UX empathy with systems thinking across ads, search front-ends, and platform tooling. Comfortable on the full stack, he also designs cloud infrastructure—VPCs, RDS/ElastiCache integrations—and prefers pragmatic operational choices (e.g., KVP in RDS) to chasing complex cluster management. Colleagues know him for taking projects from prototype to production and for mentoring teams on testable, secure code.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Sciences Computer Science, Bachelor of Sciences Computer Science at Western Michigan University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
237reputation
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Github Skills (28)
qunit10
testing9
javascript9
unit-testing9
tdd9
unit-testing-framework9
python6
mysql6
ember-addon5
virtual-dom5
web-components4
proxies3
chai3
reactive3
accordion3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
codemodern/ember-tracked-nested
Jul 2021 - Sep 2021
Deep tracking using proxies for complex objects for when you want everything to be reactive.
Contributions:5 releases, 50 commits, 33 pushes in 2 months
everythingproxiesreactivetracking
kltan/ember-a11y-accordion
May 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
ember-addonaccordion-componentemberaccessibilityaccordion
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