Stanley Chin
Senior Backend Engineer at Zapier
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolStanley Chin is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Old Toronto with 11 years of experience building reliable, high-throughput services and developer platforms. Currently on Zapier’s Developer Platform team, he focuses on enabling integrations for thousands of APIs by improving platform capabilities, extensibility, and execution performance while also contributing to CLI tooling for migration and promotion workflows. His background spans Go and Python microservices, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis, and cloud-driven architectures from roles at CrowdRiff and Spare, plus early systems work at IBM and Amazon. Stanley combines production-grade backend engineering with a knack for developer experience—translating platform improvements into clearer docs and tools that help third-party builders ship. Outside core backend work he’s contributed to internal ML products and build/deploy automation, showing a practical blend of infrastructure, data, and product-minded engineering.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Major in Biochemistry Major in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Major in Biochemistry Major in Computer Science at Western UniversityHigh School Diploma Science, High School Diploma Science at Scarborough Academy of Technological, Environmental, and Computer Education @ W.A Porter C.I
English, Chinese, French, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
apim10
nodejs10
javascript10
api10
api-design10
cli10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zapier/zapier-platform
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
The SDK for you to build an integration on Zapier
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Integration Engineer
Back-end Developer & Integration EngineerContributions:116 reviews, 34 commits, 85 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Stanley primarily contributed to the command-line interface (CLI) for the Zapier platform, specifically focusing on migration and promotion workflows. Their work involved modifying request bodies and endpoints related to app migrations and promotions, including adding and updating parameters. They also introduced a new command to list migration jobs and made related updates to documentation. The contributions demonstrate a focus on API integration and extending the functionality of the Zapier platform's developer tools.
nodejszapiersdkcli
standielpls/articulate
Apr 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
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