Sheldon Chan is a San Francisco–based software engineer with eight years of experience building full-stack applications and a background in education that shapes his approach to product design and developer mentorship. After transitioning from a career as an English teacher and literacy clinician, he completed an intensive full-stack program and taught Ruby and JavaScript while conducting 200+ technical screens at App Academy. Since 2019 he has been at Oracle, applying his pedagogical clarity to complex engineering problems and cross-functional collaboration. He excels at translating ambiguous requirements into user-focused solutions and brings a diagnostic, multi-sensory mindset to debugging and documentation. Quietly analytical and people-oriented, he leverages his linguistics training to craft clearer APIs and developer-facing experiences.
8 years of coding experience
City College of San Francisco
BA, Linguistics and Philosophy, BA, Linguistics and Philosophy at University of California, Los Angeles
Contributions:79 commits, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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