Kirk Chu
Senior Software Engineer at Hack for LA
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKirk Chu is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications, specializing in JavaScript (React, Next.js, Node.js) and Python. He has shipped features and infrastructure across startups and enterprise teams—from RBAC and admin consoles to scalable REST APIs and automated AWS deployments. At Capital One he led encryption research and automated deployment tooling, and more recently he contributes to civic tech at Hack for LA. Kirk combines product-minded front-end work with backend automation (AMI updates, Terraform migrations) and a track record of turning complex requirements into reliable, production-ready systems. Based in Pasadena, he brings a humanities background to technical problem solving, which surfaces in thoughtful UX and clear documentation.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
English, Chinese, French, Spanish
Github Skills (78)
poc10
lambda9
matching9
aws8
sam8
debug8
data-capture8
serverless7
parking7
scalable7
python7
aws-lambda7
dom7
docker7
workflow-management7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kkchu791/ugly_food_finder
Mar 2016 - Nov 2024
Contributions:28 PRs, 33 pushes, 6 branches in 8 years 9 months
reactnearestjavascriptsellingreactjs
kkchu791/heart
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Find us on the Hack for LA Slack #heart
Contributions:28 pushes, 13 branches in 2 months
slackslack-botheart
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