# Joseph C.

> SWE at Confident LIMS

Location: Queens, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/josephc1

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Confident LIMS
Jan 2024 – Present

### Customer Support Engineer @ Confident LIMS
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Full Stack Engineer | Oursweeper @ Software Engineering Applications
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York City Metropolitan Area
A multiplayer minesweeper clone created with React and Socket.io.
• Designed and made an authentication system with hashing and cookies to verify user accounts
• Used JavaScript, React, and CSS to create a functional Minesweeper board that handles re-renders, user options, and user inputs
• Connected game logic to a PostgreSQL database to store information such as sessions, user settings, and game details for a leaderboard

### Full Stack Engineer | Explore @ Software Engineering Applications
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area
A multi-page travel website built with React Router and authenticated with Auth0
• Developed a live chat, feedback, and cursor display with Socket.io to allow collaboration in real time
• Added backend routes to an Express server using SQL to query a PostgreSQL database for retention of user edits and changes
• Collaborated with an Agile team of engineers using Scrum methodology with standup meetings, Trello ticketing, and sprint planning

### Back End Engineer | Astelle @ Software Engineering Applications
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area
A new backend API designed from the ground-up for a pre-existing frontend
• Optimized SQL queries to handle 800 requests per second tested locally with Artillery
• Deployed application on AWS piecemeal and implemented Nginx load balancing with 4 servers to separate workload between instances
• Utilized loader.io to confirm faster deployed response time of 20ms from 2000 ms and lowered failure rate of 0% from 30% when handling 1000 requests per second

### Front End Engineer | The Astral Plane @ Software Engineering Applications
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area
A fully functioning e-commerce website consisting of multiple widgets that interact with an API and display relevant information to the user
• Worked in a team with Sass to provide a consistent light and dark theme for users between widgets via planning and shared CSS
• Created multiple interconnected components including a search function and modals to build an overall comment section with full functionality
• Tested widget rendering with Jest to ensure a bug-free user experience

### Research Assistant @ Stony Brook University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Stony Brook University, New York, United States


## Education
### Certificate in Advanced Software Engineering in Computer Science
Hack Reactor

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Engineering Chemistry
Stony Brook University

### Stuyvesant High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/josephchou124
- Website: https://github.com/JosephChou124

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Last updated: 2026-04-05