Alex Chen
Senior Frontend Engineer & Product Designer
San Francisco, CA · hello@alexchen.dev · alexchen.dev
Full-stack developer and product designer with 5+ years of experience building high-performance, accessible web applications. Specializes in React ecosystems, design systems, and developer tooling. Passionate about the intersection of engineering rigor and design craft — believing that great software must be both functional and a joy to use.
Work Experience
TechForge Inc. · San Francisco, CA
Leading frontend architecture for a B2B SaaS analytics platform serving 50,000+ users. Own the design system, performance budgets, and engineering culture for a team of 8 frontend engineers.
- Architected and shipped a component design system (120+ components) that reduced UI development time by 60%
- Improved Core Web Vitals scores across the product, achieving 90+ Lighthouse scores site-wide
- Mentored 3 junior engineers through structured code reviews and pair programming sessions
- Established frontend testing standards that increased coverage from 40% to 85%
Initech Corp. · Remote
Shipped 12+ product features end-to-end across a React frontend and Node.js backend. Owned the migration from REST to GraphQL and introduced TypeScript across the codebase.
- Led GraphQL migration that reduced average API payload size by 45% and improved developer experience
- Optimized slow database queries reducing p99 response times from 2.4s to 180ms
- Built a real-time notification system handling 10,000+ events/minute using Redis Pub/Sub
- Contributed to open source tooling: authored a widely-used TypeScript utility library (800+ stars)
Education
B.S. Computer Science — Focus on human-computer interaction, distributed systems, and data structures. GPA 3.7. Senior thesis on adaptive UI rendering performance.
Coursework highlights: Human-Computer Interaction, Web Architecture, Database Systems, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics. Led the university's frontend development club for two years, organizing workshops and hackathons for 200+ members.