Xining Schmidt-chen is a full-stack application developer with 9 years of experience modernizing legacy systems and delivering scalable web applications from database to UI. Based in Portland, Oregon, they specialize in ASP.NET Web API, Angular, Blazor, MVC, and SQL, and have led a complete rebuild and data migration of a 25-year-old system into a secure, normalized web architecture. With an MS in Computer Science and a background in physics and neuroscience research, Xining combines rigorous analytical problem solving with practical experience in Azure, Git workflows, and production environment management. They prioritize code quality, long-term maintainability, and user-centered design, often translating complex domain requirements (legal and ERP systems) into intuitive features and dashboards. Comfortable in both research and applied engineering contexts, they’ve built data pipelines, APIs, and visualization tools while communicating technical results to stakeholders across business and clinical teams. Their unusual blend of academic research in network neuroscience and hands-on enterprise modernization gives them a unique perspective on data-driven, maintainable software.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Sir Winston Churchill High School
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Calgary
Undergraduate School on Experimental Quantum Information Processing, Undergraduate School on Experimental Quantum Information Processing at University of Waterloo
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