Greg Chen

Software Engineer

me

I am a software engineer that is passionate about creating dynamic and visually appealing software.

I have experience building engaging web applications in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS. I love building projects from the ground up and seeing all the pieces come together to create user friendly applications. I like to use programming as an outlet to let my creative ideas come to fruition.

Resume

Skills And Technologies

JavaScript
React
Ruby
Rails
Redux
HTML5
CSS3
JQuery
PostgreSQL
Java
Python
C
C++
MongoDB
Github
AWS

My Projects

Video Night

VideoNight is a video-sharing platform inspired by Youtube that allows users to upload and share videos that other users can view, like, and comment on.

Technology Used
  • Backend - PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails
  • Frontend - React, Redux
Repo

Minion Wars

Minion Wars is a MERN stack project game that is centered around collecting, selling, and battling digital tokens called minions. Users are able to create an account, buy minions with gold, and use their army of minions to attack other players.

Technology Used
  • MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js
Repo

Cave Adventure

Cave Adventure is a 2D fantasy shooter game where the user controls a character to fight off waves of monsters. Gold is awarded for each monster killed and can be used to buy upgrades such as bullel level, pet level, character hp, or hp regen.

Technology Used
  • JavaScript, Phaser, CanvasHTML, HTML5
Live Repo

Coin Explorer

Coin Explorer is a level based platform game where you get to play as a slime to collect all the coins to move on to the next level. The game will be over upon dying to obstacles (spikes, monsters, etc) and you can restart at the current level.

Technology Used
  • JavaScript, CanvasHTML, HTML5
Live Repo

  • Education

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

    May 2019

  • Bachelor of Science, Major in Computer Science, Minor in Economics

    • App Academy

    March 2020

  • Immersive software development course with 1000-hour curriculum and < 3% acceptance rate

  • Experience

    • Software Engineer - Daily Harvest

    Nov 2020 - Aug 2022

  • Collaborated with a team of 4 engineers to revamp the billing process and implement new billing cadences to millions of users through a/b testing, driving a 10-14% surge in customer orders
  • Proactively resolved billing issues as a member of the on-call team while implementing comprehensive unit test coverage across the entire billing flow, reducing billing related complaints by over 45%
  • Automated order refunds and replacements by leveraging Google Cloud Task queues to introduce efficient bulk actions, saving multiple hours per week in manual engineering efforts
  • Developed RESTful APIs with Braze’s connected content functionality to seamlessly retrieve user data from the database for SMS and email marketing campaigns, resulting in a 23% boost in customer engagement
  • Assisted the marketing team to construct relational database schemas and develop APIs for a B2B transaction feature, leading to increased sales growth and enhanced customer conversion rates

Contact Info

Contact me.

Location
Brookyln, New York
Phone
646-736-9399
Email
qixiang100@gmail.com
Web
https://chenq7.github.io
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