# Chris Hu

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chrishu

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Samsung Research America (SRA)
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Ontra
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Contributed to the open-source library for generating UML diagrams based on Rails Active Record Associations using Ruby.
- Implemented Sidekiq (Redis) to reduce performance incidents by 90%, eliminating timeouts for InvoiceGroup endpoints.
- Developed an auto-generation system for subscription documents, reducing the average time by 2 hours per configuration file.
- Investigated and planned the removal of the Parse ORM in favor of Prisma for MongoDB.
Reduced testing time by 20% by refactoring over 100 long function/Restful APIs and rewriting related unit tests using Rspec.
Utilized Docker and other containerization technologies to simplify the configuration.
Implemented rules on Datadog for analytic events and reduce unnecessary logging that require actions by 12%.
Worked in an Agile environment, participating in daily Scrum meetings to deliver high-quality software.

### Associate Software Engineer @ Mil-Techs, Inc
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developed e-commerce web applications using Spring, Java, React, Redux, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML from zero to one.
- Designed and implemented improvements to the company’s custom React UI library.
- Integrated Stripe payment gateway API using Java.
- Enhanced system resilience & tolerance using bulkhead, circuit breaker, rate limiter, and retry pattern.
- Boosted notification retrieves performance with Redis cache, resulting in 0.4s latency deduction.
Designed and implemented notification service to generate and deliver notifications for more than 50 QPS with Spring Cloud.
Built event-driven services for decoupled services with Spring Cloud Stream and Kafka.
Configured routes using React Router, updated controllers and handled JSON responses.
Set up unit testing using Jest and React-test-render to finish End-to-end test (E2E) .
Debugged applications using browser tools such as Chrome Developer and React browser tools.
Improved code reusability using React High-Order-Components.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
International Technological University (ITU)

### Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Economics
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chris-hu-8bba55274

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Last updated: 2026-03-29