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
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at Colorado State University
English