Lake Chang
Senior Backend Developer at Toruya
Taipei–Keelung Metropolitan area Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolLake Chang is a seasoned Senior Backend Developer with 17 years of experience building full-product web applications, primarily in Rails, and a strong familiarity with React/Next on the frontend. Based in Taipei, he has led backend work across SaaS and e-commerce products, improving performance, introducing maintainable patterns, and designing large-scale migrations (including async migrations and Redis-to-Mongo session moves) to reduce cost and complexity. He consistently drives productivity improvements by building internal tools, aligning dev/staging/production schemas, and proactively communicating assumptions and solutions during reviews. A lifelong builder who started in 2008, he still ships side projects—most recently for Japan Line marketing—bringing a product-minded perspective to engineering decisions. Practical, hands-on, and remote-work savvy, Lake blends deep Rails expertise with pragmatic system design and a knack for making legacy systems more maintainable.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor, Computer Science, bachelor, Computer Science at Taiwan National Cheng Kung University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (62)
plugin9
js-plugin9
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link-preview9
react9
mongodb9
walletconnect8
wallet8
android8
truncate8
ellipsis8
ios8
react-native8
ruby7
bash7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ilake/comic-geek-list
Jul 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
ilake/iwakela
Jul 2008 - Jan 2011
Contributions:545 commits in 2 years 6 months
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