Summary
Linden Chiu is a full-stack engineer and current Engineering Apprentice at LinkedIn with nine years of development experience building scalable web applications and services. He has shipped production systems across Java, Python, Node.js, React, and Ruby on Rails, and has hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure), Docker, and databases like PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Past roles include performance-focused backend work at reserve.Me (designing a system handling millions of records with sub-millisecond reads) and consumer-facing React components and test suites at startups like Watch.me and Blast. Passionate about education technology, he pairs his tutoring and teaching background with engineering to create accessible learning tools. Comfortable across the stack, he also brings practical experience with messaging and async systems (Celery/RabbitMQ), real-world stress testing, and observability-driven optimizations. Outside of work he studies Japanese, reads novels, and plays Go, reflecting a patient, analytical approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Hack Reactor
El Cerrito High School
University of California Santa Cruz
English, Japanese, Chinese