Summary
Yongkang Chen is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer based in Shanghai with over 2 years of recent freelance experience and a long history of enterprise Java development. He has built logistics, GIS, health management and supply-chain systems using Java/Spring/Hibernate across Oracle and MySQL backends, and more recently creates and maintains Node/Express and React starter projects and Django REST prototypes on GitHub. Comfortable across cloud platforms (Azure, AMS, Oracle) and containerized web deployments, he combines hands-on coding with rapid prototyping for web apps and APIs. His work spans legacy enterprise stacks and modern JavaScript/Python toolchains, enabling quick migration paths and interoperable services. Notably, he operates as an independent developer publishing practical starter templates and demos that accelerate team onboarding. He brings a blend of decades-old enterprise craftsmanship and contemporary open-source experimentation to delivery-focused engineering.
2 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer