Matthew Chun
Software Engineer at LEVY HENRY M
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarMatthew Chun is a software engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building product-focused systems across media, research, and enterprise environments. He currently works in product management at Hulu after prior engineering roles at Amazon, GE (cybersecurity), ZEISS, and research contributions with UW Data, giving him a rare blend of hands-on SWE, security awareness, and research-driven design. He contributes to notable open-source visualization projects like Vega-Lite and Lyra, where he implemented robust box plot features and refined interactive data-table and filtering UX. Comfortable across front-end and full-stack domains, he focuses on shipping reliable, test-covered features and improving developer-facing schemas. Colleagues rely on him to translate data visualization needs into practical implementations that handle edge cases and orientation/validation concerns. His background suggests a pragmatic engineer who navigates product, research, and security contexts to deliver polished user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
uid10
declarative-programming10
javascript10
visualization10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
vega-lite10
visualizations10
plot10
react10
declarative10
charts10
ui-components9
component-design9
user-interface9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vega/lyra
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
An interactive, graphical Visualization Design Environment (VDE)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:91 commits, 7 PRs, 49 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Lyra project. They implemented and refactored components within the DataTable and FullField components. Their work included adding features like the ability to change data types, and the addition of filter and formula functionality.
graphicalinteractivevdevisualization
vega/vega-lite
Mar 2017 - Apr 2019
A concise grammar of interactive graphics, built on Vega.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 20 PRs, 75 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the implementation and refinement of box plot visualizations within the Vega-Lite library. Their work involved adding support for different box plot configurations, including those using IQR-based whiskers, and incorporating outlier detection. They also made changes to ensure correct orientation and addressed error conditions. The user’s contributions included writing tests, modifying existing examples and updating the schema to incorporate the box plot feature.
chartsinteractive-graphicsvisual-analysisplotgrammar
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