Michael Chen
Staff Engineer at Aritzia
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Chen is a Staff Engineer with nine years of experience modernizing web platforms and driving developer experience improvements across enterprise organizations. He has led large-scale front-end transformations—introducing Module Federation, monorepos, and micro-web-app templates—that measurably improved performance, maintainability, and time-to-market. Known for mentoring engineers and fostering cross-functional collaboration, he pairs hands-on architecture and implementation skills (React, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL) with pragmatic standards and documentation to increase adoption. His background in materials science and early work on tooling and automation give him a systems-minded approach to solving product and infrastructure problems. Michael excels at turning complex, multi-team initiatives into repeatable patterns that scale across organizations.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Materials Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Materials Science and Engineering at University of WashingtonHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Lakeridge High SchoolWeb-Development, Web-Development at Galvanize Inc
Chinese
Github Skills (22)
slide9
webpack9
react-carousel9
react9
api8
nextjs8
typescript8
sass8
javascript8
gatsby7
nodejs7
cypress7
eslint7
documentation7
monorepo6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mikeechen/jquery-calculator
Aug 2016 - Jul 2024
Contributions:9 pushes in 7 years 11 months
basic-calculatorcalculatorjavascriptjquery
mikeechen/Alexa-Apps
Nov 2016 - Aug 2019
Several Alexa apps I made
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
alexa
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