Lewis Chung
Engineering Manager at Persona
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLewis Chung is an engineering manager and former founder with a decade of experience building scalable products and teams across education, e-commerce, and infrastructure. He helped define Coursera’s freemium monetization and led initiatives that improved frontend performance, testing, and server-side rendering, while later shifting focus to scaling systems and team effectiveness. As a co-founder of ShopWith (YC S18) and an early engineer at Amazon and AWS, he blends startup pragmatism with deep systems and platform expertise. He prefers practical, outcome-driven technology choices over chasing trends and enjoys exploring programming languages and tooling for fun. Based in San Francisco, Lewis currently leads engineering at Persona, bringing a mix of product-first mentality, infrastructure chops, and a track record of turning research and prototypes into production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorArcadia High SchoolUniversity of California San Diego
Stackoverflow
2,317reputation
146kreached
34answers
3questions
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top-5%
Github Skills (200)
testing10
code-generation10
serverless10
cucumber10
contenteditable10
recycle10
swift10
editing10
protractor10
redux10
facebook10
graphql-client10
graphql10
apollo10
editable10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
lewisf/apollo-codegen
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:50 pushes, 12 branches in 2 months
queryapiannotationstype-annotationsgraphql
coursera/react-codemod
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
reactcodemod
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