Mel Chua
Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMel Chua is a seasoned frontend-focused software engineer and business owner with eight years of professional experience and a decade-long background in tech, specializing in React and cloud integrations. She has driven high-impact product work at ZenHub—leading migrations, integrating AI into the UI, and redesigning flagship features like Roadmap and Kanban—while improving self-service billing and saving recurring costs. As founder of Flying Bison Technologies she delivers full-stack solutions across FastAPI, Vue, Flutter and Spring Boot, shipping production releases to AWS, iOS, and Android and building fraud detection and multi-tenant auth systems. Comfortable in both hands-on coding and team leadership, she mentors junior engineers, runs agile ceremonies, and bridges design, backend, and product to launch usable features. Her background in data migrations and finance-informed product thinking helps her design pragmatic, secure systems that scale. Based in Vancouver, she combines entrepreneurial grit with a habit of learning new stacks and prototyping AI-driven workflows that tangibly improve user outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Master at Scrum AllianceBritish Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Web Development, Web Development at Lighthouse LabsBachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance at Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser UniversityBachelor of Arts (Hons), Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Political Science at Simon Fraser University
mandarin (basic)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
git10
github10
android6
information-extraction6
volatility6
volatile6
push-notifications5
dance5
ios4
react-native4
rails-api4
activerecord4
devise-jwt3
netflix3
rails-gem3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
melchua/grateful
Mar 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:4 reviews, 17 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 years
melchua/dancewise
Nov 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:40 reviews, 13 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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