Roy Chiu
Software Engineer at Zip
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRoy Chiu is a software engineer based in San Francisco with eight years of experience across full-stack development, DevOps, and engineering productivity. He has driven developer experience improvements as a Senior Software Engineer at Roblox and now continues to shape platform tooling at Zip. His background includes building data pipelines and dashboards at Samsara and cost-saving, production-facing services at The Climate Corporation, demonstrating a knack for translating data and system optimizations into measurable business impact. Roy has led and mentored engineering teams in nonprofit and academic settings, launching member-facing full-stack applications and recruitment tooling. He combines hands-on implementation—from React/Next.js frontends to Databricks and cloud dataflows—with a strong emphasis on developer efficiency and scalable data design. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who consistently finds simple, cost-effective alternatives to complex legacy systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science (BS-MCS) Computer Science, Master of Computer Science (BS-MCS) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, Spanish, English
Github Skills (53)
admin9
bootstrap9
adminlte9
apr9
roblox9
payment8
signature8
web-application7
dashboard7
redux7
driver7
detector7
lua7
self-contained7
scrape7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rgychiu/gmail-aggregator
Dec 2019 - Oct 2022
Aggregator utility to aggregate and digest emails from multiple gmail accounts.
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
emailemailsthunderbirdaggregategmail
rgychiu/of-hand-physics
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:35 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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