Shu Chen
Software Engineer at Singular Photonics
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolShu Chen is a versatile software engineer with 15 years building full-stack web systems, currently applying his skills at Singular Photonics from Edinburgh. Comfortable across backend services—recommendation engines, real-time search—and polished mobile-friendly frontends, he primarily works in Python and Go while continuously learning new technologies. His background includes leading engineering at The Global Disinformation Index, contributing to open-source projects like Zulip, and designing scalable recommendation systems at CreativeMarket that served large weekly active users. Shu’s career mixes startup agility and production-hardened systems work, and his MA in Japanese Literature alongside a BA in Secondary Education Mathematics reflects an uncommon blend of analytical rigor and humanistic perspective.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MA Japanese Literature, MA Japanese Literature at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Japanese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
31reputation
0reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (135)
web-application10
python10
websocket10
chat10
collaboration10
javascript10
zulip10
socket-io10
electron10
apache10
slack10
nodejs10
react-native10
react10
docker-compose9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sirpengi/zulip-flutter
Jul 2023 - Feb 2024
Prototype of a Zulip client using Flutter
Contributions:195 pushes, 85 branches in 6 months
SpiderOak/netkes
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Networked key escrow server and LDAP sync code for SpiderOak Blue.
Contributions:94 commits in 11 months
networkedbluesyncldapescrow
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.