# Arick Chow

> Senior Software Engineer at Descript

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/arick

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Descript
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ DoorDash
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022

### Senior Software Engineer @ Ancestry
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Ancestry
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Mobile Android development
- Build out features on the ancestry android application

Building beautiful web applications 
- Rapid prototyping with React, redux, webpack and Node.js
- Technologies used: Node.js, Angular, Javascript, C#, Nginx, Docker, Jenkins
- Developing/architecting SOA web applications  
- Developing RESTful api's
- Scaling servers using nginx for process level loading balancing
- Setting up continuous integration infrastructure using Jenkins
- Setting up local development environment using docker and vagrant
- Member of ancestry's internal Node.js guild to help promote Node.js within the company
- Developing internal node modules to handle logging and localization

### Software Engineering Intern @ Fantex
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Developed a Python application end to end for product team to upload images on to Rackspace's CDN service. Wrote batch jobs to be run by Jenkins or cron that would bulk upload images to CDN. Setup CI environment with Jenkins to run python tests using mock and patch for rest of the development team which also generated code coverage reports and flake8/pep8 violations. Exposure to Flask, MVC, REST, MySQL, memcache, varnish, vagrant, chef, HTML, JQuery, and CSS

### Calit2 Undergraduate Researcher @ UC San Diego
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Developing intuitive ways to navigate through 3D space using the leap motion as well as creating gestures for menu control.

### iPhone Developer Intern @ R2 Digital
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Developed new iphone game application using C++ and Xcode. Implemented perl scripts to automate the
insertion of art data into the game and maintained existing iPhone game applications.

### Computer Graphics Final Project @ UC San Diego
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Implemented a 3D software application with dynamic interactions using advanced rendering effects such
as shadow mapping, reflections, particles, environment mapping, textures and multi texturing using
openGL.

### Private Tutor @ UC San Diego
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Worked one-on-one with students to help them learn basic data structures such as linked lists, stacks,
queues and binary search trees.

### Software Developer Intern @ Black Chicken Studios
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Worked for indie game company to help develop a visual novel game using Python and Ren’Py, an open
source visual novel engine based on python


## Education
### B.S in Computer Science
UC San Diego
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arick-chow-237a3842

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Source: https://flows.cv/arick
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/arick/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22