Alex Chen
Senior Full-Stack Developer
About
Full-stack developer with 6+ years of experience building scalable web applications. I specialize in React and TypeScript on the frontend and Node.js on the backend, with a strong focus on performance, accessibility, and developer experience. I thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy mentoring junior engineers.
Work Experience
Senior Full-Stack Developer
Led development of customer-facing dashboard features serving 200k+ users. Architected a real-time analytics pipeline and reduced page load times by 45% through server-side rendering optimizations.
- Designed and implemented a real-time usage analytics dashboard consumed by enterprise customers
- Reduced Time to First Byte by 45% by migrating critical routes to React Server Components
- Mentored 3 junior engineers, conducting weekly code reviews and pair programming sessions
- Led migration of legacy REST endpoints to a type-safe tRPC API layer
Full-Stack Engineer
Built internal tooling and merchant-facing features for Stripe's payment infrastructure. Worked across the stack from database schema design to polished React UIs.
- Shipped the initial version of the Stripe Tax dashboard, used by thousands of merchants to manage compliance
- Collaborated with design and product to rebuild the developer documentation portal using a headless CMS
- Improved test coverage of core payment flows from 62% to 91% by introducing integration and snapshot testing
- Participated in on-call rotation, resolving production incidents with p99 latency under 200ms
Education
University of California, Berkeley
B.S. in Computer Science
Graduated with honors. Relevant coursework included Data Structures, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, and Introduction to Machine Learning. Senior capstone project: a peer-to-peer file sharing application using consistent hashing for load distribution.