Tim Chan
Staff Software Engineer at Uber
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Chan is a Staff Software Engineer based in Los Altos with over a decade of experience building high-traffic web products and leading cross-team initiatives at companies like Box, Meta, and Uber. He’s shipped large-scale React.js and GraphQL solutions—driving experiences that reached tens to hundreds of millions of daily views—and has a strong track record of taking 0-1 projects from hackathon pitch to production. Tim blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, having served as tech lead across multi-team efforts such as an infinite scroll overhaul that scaled to 50M daily views. An MIT-educated builder, he also contributes to the open source community (and runs Arch Linux), reflecting a practical, system-focused mindset beyond product work.
4 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chinese
Github Skills (101)
typegoose10
material-you10
reader10
lamp10
dns10
mongoose10
mx-space10
bull10
adblock10
blocking10
golang10
ads10
nodejs10
mongodb10
dns-over-https10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ttimochan/processforlinux
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
A Linux Implementation of the Mix Space Process Reporting Feature
Contributions:12 releases, 1 review, 29 PRs in 1 year 7 months
mx-spacerust
timochan-cn/docs
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 review, 20 PRs, 85 pushes in 4 months
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