Po-cheng Chu
Senior Software Engineer at Doorstead
New Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolPo-cheng Chu is a Senior Software Engineer and former startup CTO with 12 years of experience building AI/NLP-driven products and full-stack systems, currently focused at Doorstead. A former competitive programmer (IOI/ACM-ICPC) and ex-Googler, he co-founded Botimize—an analytics SaaS that processed over 3M chatbot messages daily and was sold in 2018—bringing real-world scale to conversational analytics. He has deep hands-on expertise in chatbot platforms and Slack integrations, contributing notable backend and API work to popular open-source projects like bottender and messaging-apis. His background spans research-grade quantum circuit optimization during military service to practical product engineering, reflecting a blend of rigor and product intuition. Based in New Taipei, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a taste for metal and gaming, and a persistent drive to find the right problems to solve.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Taiwan UniversityChien-Kuo Senior High School
Chinese, English, Mandarin
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
slack-api10
apidoc10
api-client10
bots10
typescript10
bots-framework10
api10
chatterbot10
typescript-types10
googlebot10
bot-framework10
nodejs10
typescripts10
chatbot10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Yoctol/bottender
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
⚡️ A framework for building conversational user interfaces.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 9 PRs, 53 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Po-cheng primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the `bottender` framework, focusing on Slack integration. They implemented new Slack API features, specifically `chat.xxx` and `views.xxx` methods, and added corresponding test cases. Their work included refactoring Slack event handling, supporting Slack block kits and view events, and integrating Slack signing secrets for enhanced security. These changes demonstrate a focus on expanding and improving the framework's capabilities for Slack-based chatbot development.
conversationalbotchatframeworkuser-interfaces
bottenderjs/messaging-apis
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Messaging APIs for multi-platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 days
Contributions summary:Po-cheng primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of Slack API integrations, specifically focusing on `chat` and `views` functionalities. This involved adding new methods such as `postMessage`, `postEphemeral`, and `views.open`, alongside their associated unit tests. They also refactored code, added payload types, and modified function assignments to ensure the correct use of Slack API methods.
api-clientapibotchatwechat
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