Tamara Chu
Design Engineer at Cunning Folk
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTamara Chu is a Design Engineer based in San Francisco with over a decade of experience building and leading teams on complex web applications for startups, agencies, and mission-driven organizations. She partners closely with product and design to deliver high-quality, practical solutions under tight timelines, and has led full-stack teams through discovery, launch, and handoff. Her background spans roles from senior frontend engineer to engineering manager and lead, and she currently contributes at Notion while running an interactive studio, Cunning Folk, that creates playful web experiences for artists and non-profits. Comfortable in both legacy stacks and cutting-edge workflows, she brings a pragmatic emphasis on shipping—down to happily writing the tickets in Jira. Tamara’s mix of agency rigor and creative coding training gives her a knack for balancing delightful UX with maintainable engineering.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Lick-Wilmerding High SchoolCreative Code Intensive, Creative Code Intensive at Gray Area Foundation for the ArtsBA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Amherst College
Github Skills (32)
visualization10
crossfilter10
d3js10
charting9
gpu9
data-visualization8
charts8
pickup8
react6
audio6
audio-player5
nodejs5
javascript4
typescript4
video-player4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sabrichu/sabrinaxnine
Jul 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
sabrichu/processing
Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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