Way Spurr-chen
Senior Engineering Manager at LivelyVideo
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolWay Spurr-chen is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Austin with 12 years of experience building and scaling web and real-time video systems, now leading a dozen engineers at LivelyVideo after folding his ChalkCast education streaming platform into the parent company. He blends hands-on architecture and product thinking—especially around synchronous state systems and streaming—with a strong emphasis on mentorship, communication, and operational rigor. Way has a track record of stabilizing large platforms (Volt/V2), improving developer workflows and monitoring, and delivering high-impact analytics and SDK work at scale. He’s passionate about leveraging large language models to synthesize product, UX, engineering, and data, and often translates long-term business goals into clear tactical plans. An early career background in video and film arts and frontline instructor experience informs his user-focused, educational approach to engineering leadership.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Video and Film Arts, Video and Film Arts at Maryland Institute College of Art
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Github Skills (124)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wayspurrchen/beamp
Jul 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
wayspurrchen/byebyte
Jul 2015 - May 2018
Destroys your files (on purpose).
Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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