Shuyang Chen
Co-Founder, President & CTO at Iron Vertex
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolShuyang Chen is a Co-Founder, President & CTO and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web and backend systems, now leading Iron Vertex to scale VTuber virtual avatar creation from Tokyo. He blends deep front-end expertise in React/React Native, WebGL and modern tooling with robust Node.js/Express backend development and experience across enterprise Java and databases like Postgres and MongoDB. A former Google Developer Programs Engineer for Google Assistant, he led client library work and improved reliability through focused test-suite refactoring—evidenced by notable contributions to the actions-on-google Node.js client. He has a track record of shipping product-oriented ML and e-commerce features at Moonship and building experimental Unity/VR projects at Minosh Digital, showing comfort across consumer, research, and experimental domains. Equally at ease solo or in Agile teams, he deploys to AWS/Azure/Heroku and favors high test coverage and maintainable code. Outside product work he’s done GPGPU research with CUDA, reflecting a long-standing interest in performance and systems-level problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyWestern Albemarle High School
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (16)
unit-testing10
javascript10
nodejs10
test-automation10
testing10
eslint9
nodejs-library9
google-home6
google-assistant-sdk6
bluebird6
typescript6
dialogflow-es6
fulfillment6
firebase6
firebase-realtime-database6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
actions-on-google/actions-on-google-nodejs
Jun 2017 - Feb 2020
Node.js client library for Actions on Google
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:28 releases, 211 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Shuyang's commits focused on refactoring and expanding the test suite for the Node.js client library. Key contributions involved implementing and modifying unit tests using a testing framework, as well as general code improvements related to style enforcement and linting, showing a focus on code quality and test coverage. They also contributed to refactoring specific tests in the `test/actions-test.js` to improve clarity and maintainability. The contributions suggest a strong focus on ensuring the library's reliability and adherence to coding standards.
alexa-skills-kitjs-clientgoogleclient-librarynode-js
Canain/Queso.Zone
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:94 commits, 90 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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