# Jonathan Chiu > Senior Software Engineer II @ Brilliant Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jonathanchiu Currently @ Brilliant ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer II @ Brilliant.org Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area Engineering on the Growth team ### Senior Software Engineer I @ Brilliant.org Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States ### Senior Software Engineer I @ Carta Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 (Macroeconomic-related layoff/reduction in workforce) Front-end focused engineering on the FPI (Financial Products & Infrastructure), Money Movement team ### Senior Software Engineer @ Skillshare Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States • Sole engineer leading and implementing numerous cross-functional product features and bug fixes, and A/B feature-flagged experiments touching heavily trafficked and mission critical areas of the product – payments, teacher payment dashboards, search, projects, user profiles, logged in and logged out homepage variants, class pages, and our class browser • Revamped teacher payouts and teacher referrals infrastructure on the platform resulting in increased payouts and more meaningful financial insights of users teachers were referring to Skillshare • Led and contributed extensively to engineering-wide frontend and backend modernization efforts including designing GraphQL schemas, porting legacy APIs from PHP to GraphQL, migrating core parts of the codebase from Backbone to React/Typescript/Apollo/GraphQL/Material UI/Next.js, and converting or defining countless reusable React components utilized across the product, working closely with product/design teams on all of the above • Spearheaded multiple performance initiatives including a performance “tiger team” and successfully integrated Lighthouse CI into our deploy process, providing valuable reporting and insights into “Core Web Vitals” after every deploy, and moved the needle on setting up performance standards internally • Migrated and worked with design team to revamp Skillshare “Projects” and “Class” pages, porting to React/GraphQL/Apollo • Served as a mentor for teammates and new engineering hires, and conducted values/culture interviews for job candidates across the board ### Software Engineer III @ Skillshare Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 • Integrated “Cloudflare Image Resize” and created an internal API allowing engineers to easily adapt images on the fly to a variety of layouts, and screen sizes, and significantly reduced image payload sizes being sent to users across a variety of highly trafficked pages • Led mission critical frontend work in Skillshare’s 2019 “Rebrand” initiative, revamping the product’s entire brand and design – color palette, assets, fonts, and iconography • Migrated and converted legacy “Search” page and user notifications panel to revamped, modernized experiences utilizing React/GraphQL/Apollo • Streamlined workflow for image processing, image previews, and cropping of user generated content for “Project” uploads ### Software Engineer II @ Skillshare Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York • Led and implemented initial prototype of Skillshare’s very first integration of React into legacy Backbone codebase, now referred to as “ReactBone” and used extensively internally, and ultimately played a key role in shaping the frontend engineering roadmap and frontend codebase into what it is today • Core engineer for Skillshare’s “Groups” feature, a topic-based discussion platform built out to spur user engagement and conversation, in Backbone/PHP • Advocated for and led integration of ESLint and Stylelint into development workflows and CI builds, improving overall code quality and establishing our first set of foundational frontend code standards for Javscript/CSS • Implemented Skillshare’s first ever statistics insights across all user profiles, breaking down users’ most watched class categories using Backbone/D3.js • Worked on a variety of quality of life improvements across the platform, mainly product features, bug fixes, and core package upgrades ### Software Engineer @ Wayfair Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area - Worked with PHP/React as a fullstack engineer on a team focused on discounted and promotional events for Wayfair's "Daily Sales" page - Developed new internal tool that allowed users to create more targeted, and specific events for customers - Improved internal tooling for event creation and event management by implementing new features, and fixing various bugs - Converted core, customer-facing and internal event-related pages to utilize React, from deprecated internal framework (Tungsten.js, https://github.com/wayfair/tungstenjs) - Monitored alerts and addressed a variety of team critical bugs ### Software Engineer Intern @ VTS, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 - Built and rigorously tested a wide variety of full-stack features for a Heroku, Rails, and AngularJS application. Utilized RSpec/Capybara for testing Rails features, Sinon.js/Chai for testing client-side logic. - Re-architected, built out, and improved chat presence implementation in messaging service for thousands of users, greatly increasing scalability and decreasing monthly engineering expenditures by over 250 dollars, utilizing the Pubnub API. - Addressed client feedback by creating a new reporting section in the application expediting and improving their workflow. - Implemented core logic in critical mailers, making them more dynamic and enabling users to make more informed decisions. ### Software Engineer Co-op @ clypd, inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Somerville, MA - Successfully acted as feature lead in engineering team’s adoption of Zeus, speeding up overall development and testing workflow - Built a variety of models, controllers, and views on a Rails and jQuery powered application. - Improved the team’s test report mailer in Jenkins, giving engineers more detailed insight into test coverage and failures. ### Web and Mobile Development Co-op @ Eaton Vance Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Boston, MA - Led design and implementation of new internal web application from conception to production, streamlining the workflows of sales and marketing teams, utilizing PHP and jQuery. - Updated legacy code, fixed bugs, and implemented new features for internal web and mobile applications. - Created PDF form filling tool that enabled employees to quickly author custom RSVP documents for clients. ### Webmaster @ Waste Diversion LLC Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 - Coded and maintained company's main website utilizing HTML, CSS, and Javascript. - Established and oversaw social media outlets, ensuring both ends were attractive and relevant to visitors. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science Northeastern University Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jonathanchiu7 - Website: http://jonathanchiu.me --- Source: https://flows.cv/jonathanchiu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jonathanchiu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20