Peace Chen is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack and cross-platform products, now leading ventures in sustainable mobility and web performance from Austin. They have founded multiple startups—including Mocha EV and Temperal—and served as CTO of The Furniture App, combining architecture, AI integration, and scalable infrastructure with hands-on development. A prolific front-end contributor to notable open-source React projects, Peace has improved complex UI components like calendar pickers and material-table-core, shipping pragmatic fixes and new features that improve developer UX. Their technical breadth spans React/React Native, Node/GraphQL backends, mobile and desktop native tooling, and cloud deployments on AWS/GCP. Trained as an electrical engineer at Georgia Tech, they bring hardware-rooted systems thinking to software product design and a long-term focus on sustainability in energy and transportation.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE, EE, Engineering Psychology, BSEE, EE, Engineering Psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology
Easy to use and visually stunning calendar component for React Native.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:45 releases, 8 reviews, 133 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Peace primarily contributed to the `react-native-calendar-strip` repository by implementing new features and improving existing ones. They added functionalities like customizing the styling of selected dates, enabling/disabling individual dates and date ranges, and fixing inconsistencies in touch selection. The user also refactored components for better performance and introduced props to control the visibility of different calendar elements, enhancing the component's flexibility and customization options.
Contributions:36 releases, 12 reviews, 99 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Peace focused on enhancing the UI of the React Native calendar picker component. They added new features like initial date control and props for dynamic sizing to accommodate various aspect ratios. Furthermore, they improved the user experience by adding the ability to select a date range. Finally, they updated the codebase to be compatible with React 15.5+ and to use Moment JS for dates.
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