# James Chuong

> Staff Software Development Engineer - Frontend

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

Canadian in US

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Actium Health
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Development Engineer - UI @ Automation Anywhere
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Instart
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto
Platform Engineer
Webpage performance test automation
Major CI/CD automation and containerization
Customer certificate automation
Operational tooling: database management, device42 interfacing, etc.

UI Engineer
Building React components and pages for data visualizations and self-service workflows

### Software Consultant @ Instart Logic
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Canada
Remotely continued my previous projects.

### Software Engineering Student @ Instart Logic
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto, CA
Primary developer of two new projects.

Automated Safari testing tool:  developed primarily in Java, Python.  The tool allowed users to queue up tests to both desktop and mobile Safari devices for performance testing.

Performance Benchmarking reporter: developed both the front and back-end of the web service for storing and retrieving results of automated tests.  The front-end was developed in HTML/CSS/JavaScript with AngularJS using Bootstrap.

The back-end was developed with Java 8 API, R (interfaced with JRI/REngine), and PostgreSQL.  Frameworks include Dropwizard (Jersey, Jackson, REST API), Google Guice, JUnit, JRI/REngine, Swagger API.

### Software Developer (Co-op) @ EVault: A Seagate Company
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Oakville, Canada
Developed new features for the EVault's backup and restore agent plugin via volume images.  While working under agile methodologies, I delivered multiple stories with testable and maintainable code on Windows platforms and provided coverage via the Google test framework.
Furthermore, I worked on EVault's Bare-Metal Recovery and EVault System Restore applications to deliver compatibility for UEFI systems.

Worked with: C++, C#, working with Windows API, agile development cycle, Visual Studio, Google test framework

### Software Designer (Co-op) @ Blue Coat Systems
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Waterloo, Canada Area
Developed on the Security Products team, dealing with Blue Coat's ProxySG Appliance
Squashed bugs in C++ and Java in both implementation and UI
Implemented the Cisco specification Netflow to the ProxySG

Worked with: C++, Java, Java swing toolkit, synchronization issues, Eclipse, development on (Ubuntu) Linux, unit tests with Google's mock.

### Instructional Assistant (Co-op) @ University of Waterloo
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Waterloo, Canada
Tutored the object-oriented software development concepts in C++, software development
practices and Unix tools such as shell commands and bash scripting
Held weekly tutorials and office hours to help students understand the material
Created automated testing scripts and suites for student assignment submissions using bash


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Jan 2010 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jchuong

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Last updated: 2026-03-22