Summary
Richard Chan is a senior frontend engineer and founder with 14 years of experience building polished, design-forward web applications using React, Redux, JavaScript, and Ruby on Rails. Based in Oakland, he currently leads the modernization of a distributed energy platform into a high-performance React SPA while also running Tiny Labs, the studio behind Tiny Tasks (650+ DAU) and other experimental web products. He excels at bridging design and engineering—architecting reusable component libraries, enforcing design consistency, and raising automation testing standards to improve user experience. A multilingual thinker (English, Spanish, Chinese) with a background spanning enterprise HCM, startup marketing ops, and hands-on product work, he combines pragmatic product sense with a curiosity-driven approach to learning and sharing knowledge. His portfolio shows a pattern of shipping user-facing features at scale and turning prototypes into products that serve real users.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Management, Bachelor’s Degree Management at San Francisco State University
Nanodegree Front-End Web Development, Nanodegree Front-End Web Development at Udacity
Associate’s Degree Mathematics and Science, Associate’s Degree Mathematics and Science at City College of San Francisco
Study Abroad Program Leadership Entrepreneurship Management and Operations, Study Abroad Program Leadership Entrepreneurship Management and Operations at City University of Hong Kong
English, Chinese, Spanish