# Joycelyn Chung > Software Engineer at Hearst Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/joycelyn A full stack software engineer with extensive experience in web applications, including user-centered and responsive design. Looking to gain further knowledge and experience in native mobile application development. Ability to maintain a view of the big picture while staying on top of the details. Creative and technically savvy, with the talent to develop novel approaches to challenging problems. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Hearst Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area • Added features and maintained video player integration with JWPlayer. (Rails, EmberJS,SASS, Javascript) • Implemented next generation of video player microservice. (ReactJS, Javascript, Webpack,SASS, Jest/Enzyme/Sinon) • Implemented new games for the games microservice, including polls. (Javascript, React, Python, PHP, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Node.js, Jest/Enzyme/Karma, Docker) • Added features on other microservices (PHP/Yii, Python, BackboneJS, Node.js, Docker) • Mentored junior engineers. Performed code reviews and created technical documents. ### Frontend Engineer (Consultant) @ Trove News Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 • Worked on design changes, A/B testing, and general bug fixing. (Python, BackboneJS, Underscore, Jasmine/Karma) ### Senior Engineer @ Wanderable Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 • Intergrated Wex Payments. Moved off of Balanced Payments in favor of Stripe Payments, including changes to the current iPhone application. (HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby on Rails and Postgres, Objective-C) • Designed, architected, implemented new booking system • Mentored junior engineers. Performed code reviews. Created How-To documents as well as procedural documents. • On-call for operation support. ### Senior Engineer @ Stayful Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 • Designed and built the full stack for a content management system that allowed the designer to update static pages. (HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python, and MongoDB) Features included reusable customizable templates, versioning, publishing, rudimentary workflow capability, authentication and role-based access control. • Started the refacing of the user interface to be optimized for mobile web. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Bazaarvoice Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 • Maintained the business intelligence tool working in HTML, CSS, Javascript, Java 6, and Tapestry 3. • Built a user interface that displayed data derived from Natural Language Processing algorithm. • Added Javascript adapters that allow clients to send ROI data to the clients’ own web analytics provider – Adobe Analytics, IBM Digital Analytics, and Google Analytics – in the SAS products. ### Webmaster Volunteer @ Golden Gate Mothers Group Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 • Update content for group website. ### Senior Software Engineer @ PowerReviews (Acquired by Bazaarvoice, Inc.) Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area • Participated in a research and prototyping technologies for a new platform for SAS product. ### Lead Frontend Engineer @ Federated Media Publishing, Inc. Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 • Implemented redesign of existing marketing, notifications, and digest emails. ### Frontend Architect @ BigTent Design Inc. Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 • Technical lead and primary programmer for user interface development. • Re-architected the application front end to follow current industry web standards for HTML, CSS, and Javascript. This included templatization and separation of style, presentation and logic code. Migrated legacy code to new architecture. Technology stack included PHP with Smarty Templates on the server side; Prototype, JQuery, Scriptaculous, and LivePipe libraries on the client side. • Developed Facebook applications and integrated Facebook connect widgets. • Mentored backend developers on good frontend development practices. • Developed a mobile enabled version of the website. • Implemented product features from the backend (PHP and MySQL) up through the UI. • Developed marketing, notifications, and digest emails. ### Manager Of User Interface Development @ Sonic Swap, Inc. Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Palo Alto, CA • Technical lead and primary programmer for user interface development. • Converted the existing code from Struts 1 to Struts 2 in preparation for the incremental implementation of the site redesign. • Working with the CEO, developed the wireframes for the redesign of the site and guided the initial user experience development. • Architected and developed the presentation layer using CSS-based layouts, Dojo Toolkit 1.0 Javascript framework, JSP/JSTL, Tiles 2, and Struts 2. Developed interfaces, stubs, and implementations for supporting backend Java code. • Developed Flash widgets using Actionscript 3 and Flex 3. • Integrated third-party RESTful API’s, including Amazon and YouTube ### Senior Content Engineer (Consultant) @ Tribal DDB Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 • Technical lead for an ecommerce client site. • Created development and accessibility guidelines. • Designed and documented the client-side architecture for an AJAX-based ecommerce site. • Negotiated client-server API and middle-tier architecture with external development organization. ### Frontend Engineer (Consultant) @ Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 • Implemented the site redesigns for the Williams Sonoma, Williams Sonoma Home, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Teen and Pottery Barn Kids websites using tableless CSS layouts. • Incorporated the Dojo Toolkit Javascript framework into the sites and created custom object-oriented Javascript objects. • Integrated the HTML templates with the Coldfusion/Java code. ### Frontend User Interface Engineer (Consultant) @ Topaz Project Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 • Recommended approaches for a template based UI framework in Freemarker/Webwork. • Implemented the front-end Javascript/AJAX functionality for document annotation system and other dynamic elements using both the Dojo Toolkit Javascript framework and creating custom objects. ### Freelance User Interface Engineer (Consultant) @ Archetype Solutions, Inc. Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 | Emeryville, CA • Implemented the front-end of zafu.com, using HTML, Javascript, CSS, and Flash. ### Web Developer (Consultant) @ Barclays Global Investors Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | San Francisco Bay Area • Performed as a UI technical lead on the redesign of the Canadian funds site, managing front-end developers. • Architected the UI framework with table-less CSS layouts, AJAX, JSP 2.0 and Struts Tiles. • Developed presentation layer for several internal applications including an online employee performance evaluation application utilizing technologies including JSP 2.0 and Struts Tiles. • Produced a prototype, translating a Windows client application into a rich web interface utilizing object-oriented Javascript and AJAX to create a highly dynamic user interface for data entry/editing. ### Web User Interface Developer (Consultant) @ Gap Inc. Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | San Francisco • Developed presentation layer and content for rebranding effort of the bananarepublic.com, gap.com, and oldnavy.com websites utilizing technologies including JSP and JSTL. ### Web Developer/Business Analyst Designer (Consultant) @ Hitachi Data Systems Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 | Santa Clara, CA • Implemented CSS-based tableless page layouts for complete redesign of public B2C and B2B websites. • Developed templating framework used in both sites, and localization mechanism used in the B2C site. • Designed and implemented user interfaces for new and existing web applications, based on User Centered Design concepts. • Defined and enforced UI standards for the intranet, extranet, and internet sites. ### Web Developer @ Align Technology Inc Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 | Santa Clara, CA • Managed development teams for 9 international Invisalign websites. Coordinated site launches, projects, and localization of both static and dynamic content for each site. • Led projects to improve the e-commerce site, including a new products catalogue and an upgraded shopping cart system. • Performed UI redesign of several internal and customer-facing applications, based on requirements gathered from internal clients; coordinating cross-departmental team efforts, and developing and documenting project specifications • Ported existing web applications software from ASP to J2EE platform. ### Information Technology Intern @ Cisco Systems Jan 1999 – Jan 1999 | Santa Clara, CA • Retrofitted web applications to meet Y2K compliance • Assisted in the design and implementation of a new interface for an internal web application • Set-up the network infrastructure for newly-acquired subsidiaries ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Visual Communication & Graphics Design University of California, Davis ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joycelynchung --- Source: https://flows.cv/joycelyn JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/joycelyn/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30