Ryan Chang
Incoming Software Engineer at Jane Street
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Chang is an incoming software engineer from MIT double-majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics, bringing 11 years of hands-on experience across internships at Jane Street, Citadel, and startups. He combines strong algorithmic problem-solving—honed through math and CS competitions—with practical full-stack work, from React/Redux front ends and cloud functions to test automation for projects like Wikimedia's pywikibot. His open-source contributions include UI improvements for FOSSASIA projects and theme customization for a SUSI.AI Firefox extension, showing attention to user experience as well as code quality. Notably, he has research experience applying ML to satellite ocean data and has shipped production-focused features for conservation and finance teams. Based in New Jersey, he enjoys building personal engineering projects and learning new technologies to tackle real-world problems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Salutatorian, Salutatorian at Union County Magnet High SchoolComputer Science + Mathematics, Computer Science + Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (22)
customizer10
javascript10
custom-theme10
website-development10
pytest10
python10
firefox-webextension10
browser-extension10
testing10
css10
firefox-addon10
front-end-development10
customisation10
html10
webextension10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
fossasia/gci18.fossasia.org
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
FOSSASIA Google Code-In Website 2018 https://gci18.fossasia.org
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 15 PRs, 42 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the front-end development of the FOSSASIA GCI website. They updated the contributors section, fixed a map scrolling issue, added social media widgets for YouTube and Instagram, and addressed formatting issues in the mentor/student sections. These changes involved modifying HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files to enhance the website's user interface and functionality.
google-code-injavascriptfirebase
fossasia/susi_firefoxbot
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
SUSI.AI Firefox Extension https://susi.ai
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and customization options for the Firefox extension. Their commits introduced color selectors for the top bar and message pane, alongside a theme selection feature, giving users greater control over the extension's visual appearance. The user modified JavaScript and HTML files to implement these features, which involved saving user preferences and dynamically applying themes to the extension's display. Furthermore, they fixed variable redeclarations and implemented formatting changes.
firefox-extensionfirefox
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