Vanessa Chan
Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVanessa Chan is a software engineer with eight years of experience building scalable web and microservice architectures, currently driving data validation and schema tooling at The Walt Disney Company. She blends front-end and back-end expertise—React/Next.js and TypeScript on the UI side, with Go, Node.js, Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL powering APIs and services—to deliver production systems used across large-scale streaming platforms. At Disney she led end-to-end design and implementation of schema specification and validation tools that process over 150,000 validations per month and surfaced executive-facing streaming performance insights. Previously she increased revenue and expanded market integrations at Huckleberry by building carrier integrations and a mission-critical internal app that boosted daily revenue. Vanessa’s background in UX design and psychology gives her a user-centered approach to technical decisions, and she’s experienced in on-call operations, CI/CD and shipping mobile-first products. Based in New York, she excels at turning ambiguous requirements into robust, usable systems that scale.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Psychology Business, Bachelor's Degree Psychology Business at University at AlbanyComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Fullstack AcademyUX Design, UX Design at Designlab
English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
simulation8
open-source6
github5
nodejs4
boilerplate3
javascript3
react3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hello-world-trade-center/GraceShopper
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:63 PRs, 49 pushes, 20 branches in 8 days
NewYorkersUnite/WeOut
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:66 PRs, 52 pushes, 40 branches in 1 month
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