Teresa Chu
Founding Engineer at Miren
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTeresa Chu is a founding engineer and seasoned backend-focused software leader with nearly a decade of professional experience and a 13+ year engineering background overall. Currently building at Miren after progressive senior roles at HashiCorp and ecobee, she specializes in reliable backend systems, API design, and production deployments. Her contributions to HashiCorp’s Waypoint project highlight practical open-source experience—adding gateway job/UI endpoints, managing dependencies, and refining API surfaces. Teresa combines startup founding instincts with enterprise-grade delivery, having led platform teams and shipped customer-facing services across consumer and cloud infrastructure domains. Based in Old Toronto, she pairs strong technical execution with an inclination for clean interfaces and dependency hygiene that reduces operational friction.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Toronto
Github Skills (7)
go10
api10
backend10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
grpc9
dependency-management8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/waypoint
May 2022 - Oct 2022
A tool to build, deploy, and release any application on any platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 12 commits, 12 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Teresa primarily contributed to the backend of the Waypoint project. Their work involved adding job and UI endpoints to the gateway, which included significant code changes in the generated server code. They also addressed a checksum issue by updating a dependency in the go.mod file, demonstrating knowledge of dependency management. Furthermore, they made a function public, suggesting a focus on API or internal interface design.
dockerdevops
hashicorp/waypoint-client
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
A HTTP API Client for Waypoint
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 32 commits in 1 month
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