Michelle Chu
Backend Engineer at Zapier
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichelle Chu is a backend engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience blending data engineering, implementation, and product-focused technical support across startups and enterprise settings. Currently at Zapier, she brings deep practical experience integrating external APIs and data pipelines from her prior roles building and managing complex client implementations at Umbel. Her background as an IT business analyst and music writer gives her a rare mix of technical rigor, storytelling, and client-facing communication—she excels at translating ambiguous requirements into reliable integrations. Motivated by learning, sustainability, and creative collaboration, she often applies cross-disciplinary techniques to simplify data workflows and improve stakeholder outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Texas at AustinComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Dev BootcampThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Korean
Github Skills (11)
zapier10
nodejs10
sdk10
cli10
integrations9
plug6
php4
javascript2
api1
planning1
javascript-tools1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zapier/visual-builder
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:53 reviews, 103 commits, 139 PRs in 3 years 6 months
zapierintegrationsbuildercreate-new
michellechu77/umbel_test
Feb 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 1 month
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