Raymond Chao
Senior Software Engineer at American Charter Lines
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaymond Chao is a Full Stack Engineer with over a decade of experience building scalable web platforms and high-throughput backend systems, including solutions that have supported 100M+ users. He combines systems engineering rigor with hands-on development across Java, React, Spring Boot, Node.js, and cloud-native tooling to transform ambiguous business needs into production-ready features. Raymond has driven measurable outcomes—improving lead conversion by 35% with a dynamic charter quoting flow, automating pricing and vehicle selection to halve manual processing, and leading database migrations to Aurora with Terraform and Liquibase. He also brings quantitative trading automation experience, having managed hedged derivative positions and automated risk controls for live options books. An active contributor to the ZK Java UI framework, he focuses on front-end correctness and cross-browser resilience, reflecting a pragmatic attention to UX details often overlooked in backend-heavy roles. Based in Chicago, he pairs engineering leadership and mentorship with a knack for shipping pragmatic, testable systems that move business metrics.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Systems Engineering and Design, Bachelor of Science - BS Systems Engineering and Design at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (7)
css10
zk-framework10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
backward-compatibility9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zkoss/zk
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
ZK is a highly productive Java framework for building amazing enterprise web and mobile applications
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Raymond primarily contributed to fixing UI and front-end related bugs within the ZK framework. They addressed issues like incorrect checkmark styles in IE8, scroll position resets in grids, and combobox button functionality when components were animating. Additionally, the user made adjustments to various components' (e.g., Grid, Listbox, Tree, Datebox) behavior and styling to ensure a consistent user experience. These changes focused on improving the responsiveness and visual correctness of the ZK framework.
gwtframeworkproductivejavaamazing
Serge45/ElectronMeetsJUCE
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR in 8 days
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