Brittany Chiang

Brittany Chiang

Senior Fullstack Engineer

Summary

Highly motivated Senior Fullstack Engineer with over 8 years of experience in building scalable web applications and microservices. Expert in the Laravel and Vue.js ecosystem with a strong focus on system performance, clean architecture, and team mentorship.

Introduction

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Experience

  1. 2018 — 2024

    Lead Engineer · Upstatement
    Full-time · Boston, MA

    Build, style, and ship high-quality websites, design systems, mobile apps, and digital experiences for a diverse array of projects for clients including Harvard Business School, Everytown for Gun Safety, Pratt Institute, Koala Health, Vanderbilt University, The 19th News, and more. Provide leadership within engineering department through close collaboration, knowledge shares, and spearheading the development of internal tools.

  2. July — Dec 2017

    UI Engineer Co-op · Apple
    Internship · Cupertino, CA

    Developed and styled interactive web apps for Apple Music, including the user interface of Apple Music's embeddable web player widget for in-browser user authorization and full song playback.

  3. 2016 — 2017

    Developer · Scout Studio
    Part-time · Boston, MA

    Collaborated with other student designers and engineers on pro-bono projects to create new brands, design systems, and websites for organizations in the community.

  4. July — Dec 2016

    Software Engineer Co-op · Starry
    Internship · Boston, MA

    Worked with the UI team to engineer and improve major features of Starry's customer-facing Android app.

  5. July — Dec 2015

    Creative Technologist Co-op · MullenLowe U.S.
    Internship · Boston, MA

    Developed, maintained, and shipped production code for client websites. Clients included JetBlue, Lovesac, U.S. Cellular, U.S. Department of Defense, and more.

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Education

  1. 2021 — 2023

    Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) · Master of Computer Science
    Bandung, Indonesia

    Thesis: 'Optimizing High-Concurrency Database Transactions in Distributed Systems'. Graduated Cum Laude.

  2. 2016 — 2020

    Widyatama University · Bachelor's Degree in Informatics
    Bandung, Indonesia

Skills

  • PHP & Laravel (Expert)
  • JavaScript / TypeScript (Advanced)
  • Vue.js & Nuxt (Advanced)
  • MySQL & PostgreSQL (Advanced)

Projects

  • Build a Spotify Connected App

    Lead Instructor & Developer

    Video course that teaches how to build a web app with the Spotify Web API. Topics covered include the principles of REST APIs, user auth flows, Node, Express, React, Styled Components, and more.

    • Video Course
    • Node
    • Express
    • React
    • Styled Components
    Project

  • Spotify Profile
    Fullstack Developer

    Web app for visualizing personalized Spotify data. View your top artists, top tracks, recently played tracks, and detailed audio information about each track. Create and save new playlists of recommended tracks based on your existing playlists and more.

    • React
    • Express
    • Spotify API
    • Heroku
    Project

  • Halcyon Theme

    UI/UX Designer & Theme Developer

    Minimal dark blue theme for VS Code, Sublime Text, Atom, iTerm, and more.

    Project

  • brittanychiang.com (v4)

    Frontend Developer

    An old portfolio site built with Gatsby with 6k+ stars and 3k+ forks

    • Gatsby
    • Styled Components
    • Netlify
    Project

Courses

  1. Feb 2023 — Mar 2023

    Clean Code Architecture
    Uncle Bob

  2. Jan 2022 — Feb 2022

    Advanced Vue Design Patterns
    Vue Mastery

Certifications

  1. 2024

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect
    Amazon Web Services

  2. 2022

    Laravel Certified Developer
    Laravel

Languages

  • Bahasa Indonesia
    Native
  • English
    Fluent
  • Sundanese
    Native

References

  • Budi Santoso

    Unicorn Tech
    budi.s@unicorn.tech
    +62 811 9999 888

  • Sarah Wijaya

    PT Sumroch Karya
    sarah.w@sumroch.com
    +62 812 5555 444

Organizations

  1. 2021 — Present

    Organizing monthly meetups, workshops, and managing a community of 500+ developers.

  2. 2021 — 2022

    Spearheaded the mobile development wing and organized multiple Cloud Computing workshops for students.

  3. 2019 — 2021

    Contributed to local government digital transformation projects and translated technical documentation for popular libraries.

Hobbies

I have a deep passion for System Design and Cloud Architecture, often spending my weekends experimenting with new infrastructure tools. Outside of tech, I enjoy Hiking in the mountains of West Java to disconnect and recharge. I'm also an avid enthusiast of Mechanical Keyboards and enjoy Street Photography.

Additional

  1. 2020 — Present

    Monthly discussion on software engineering books.

  2. Aug 2019 — Aug 2019

    Built a disaster relief app in 24 hours.