Richard Chao
Software Engineer at FanDuel
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Chao is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with a decade of experience building web applications from MVP to production, currently contributing at FanDuel in New York. Trained at Fullstack Academy and self-taught in JavaScript, he specializes in React, AngularJS, Node/Express, Postgres, and AWS-based microservices, and has hands-on experience migrating monoliths to serverless architectures. At Kard Financial he led API design, Mongo schema modeling, and reusable React component development that supported Fortune 500 integrations. His background in linguistics and prior career as a paralegal give him a detail-oriented, user-focused approach to requirements and edge-case handling. He’s motivated by turning concepts into polished interfaces and reliable back-end systems, trading comfort for continuous learning and real product impact.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Linguistics, Language, Structure, & Theory, Graduated with Honors, Linguistics, Language, Structure, & Theory, Graduated with Honors at University at BuffaloFullstack Academy of Code
English, Chinese
Github Skills (36)
expressjs9
javascript9
estate9
css9
nodejs9
react9
math8
documentation-generator7
mongodb7
angular6
codebase6
animation6
cli5
aws5
gesture5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ivanyyuk/web-refinery
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:52 PRs, 82 pushes, 18 branches in 18 days
richao03/DraftChamps
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
boris chen draft kit
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
chen
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