Zachary Chai
Senior Software Engineer at Qlik
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Chai is a senior software engineer based in Ottawa with 11 years of experience building scalable web services and developer-facing tooling. He has progressed from full-stack and Rails roles into senior engineering at Qlik, bringing deep backend expertise in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Docker and AWS alongside front-end and CI experience. Zachary has a track record of improving developer workflows—integrating OpenAPI to automate documentation coverage and adding CI testing and build optimizations that measurably reduced conflicts and improved performance. His background includes work on open-source-facing products like BigBlueButton integrations and platform services that support public REST APIs. Comfortable in agile teams, he pairs pragmatic product thinking with hands-on implementation and a focus on observability and automation. He also has a habit of turning operational pain points (documentation, testing, deployment) into repeatable engineering improvements that scale.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Honours, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Honours at Carleton University
Github Skills (32)
user-interface10
bigbluebutton10
kurento9
video-conferencing9
multithreading9
webrtc9
server9
nodejs9
collaboration9
conferencing9
mediasoup9
rack9
javascript8
ruby7
json-api6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
blindsidenetworks/oae-bbb
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:48 commits, 32 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 months
bigbluebuttonapereo
zach-chai/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 67 pushes, 4 branches in 9 years 3 months
irbrailscompletionsbashbash-completions
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