# Michael Chan

> Software Engineer at Samsung Research America

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelchan

Experienced software engineer with 4+ years of experience in software development. Significant experience architecting and maintaining internal tools, dashboards, and data visualization. Strong background in building applications, developing and integrating RESTful APIs while streamlining communication with complex multi-organizational microservices. Led project deployment and coordinated with business, backend, and design teams to deliver future-proof extensible products.

Key strengths include technical and nontechnical organization skills, documentation, constructive feedback advocacy, and a strong desire for process improvement. 

Passionate about tennis, espresso, omakase, sous vide, 3d printing, PC computing, mechanical keyboards, tropical plants, street photography, and Warriors basketball.


Languages:
- Typescript/JavaScript ES6+, Java

Frameworks/Libraries:
- React, React Router, Redux, jQuery, Angular, Vue, D3
- HTML/CSS, Sass, Bootstrap, Reactstrap
- Materialize, Styled Components
- Mocha/Chai, Jest/Enzyme

Backend:
- Node.js, Express, Redis
- MySQL, PostgreSQL
- MongoDB/Mongoose, Cassandra

Tooling:
- Git, JIRA, Docker, Postman
- AWS EC2, ELB
- Webpack, Babel, Gradle
- Asana, Notion, Excel
- New Relic, Loader.io, Artillery.io

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2019 – Present | Mountain View, California
• Lead release & deployment cycles biweekly, coordinating with PM/UI/BE/DevOps teams to deliver crucial features.
• Maintain a large codebase for core internal tools and hub for 7+ Samsung Pay services.
• Implement core features to display valuable business data and exert control over Samsung Pay features.
• Initiate planning and development for Samsung Pay experimental services across multiple org stakeholders.
• Implement dashboard views by building a dynamic component library based on d3 charts.
• Create extensible, performant components used across millions of mobile Samsung devices.
• Architect mobile and server caching strategy to improve load time performance by 32%.

### Content Coordinator @ Rakuten Viki
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Mateo, California, United States
• Leveraged user traffic & viewership to determine licensing best practices - resulted in 5+ long-term partnership deals with Tencent, SBS, KBS, MBC, and CJ.
• Curated high traffic, content-rich web components, which led to a 5% increase in premium subs.
• Increased homepage carousel CTR by 11% by using financial & viewership data analysis.
• Implemented cross team system in order to keep track of licensing agreements for 700+ titles.

### Product Data Integrity Analyst @ Facebook
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | via Pro Unlimited
• Maintained social media coverage by monitoring content, trends and concepts to enhance and support the global user experience
• Interfaced with cross-functional teams to better connect millions of users with their interests by suggesting improvements for proprietary tools and systems
• Coordinated training across 8 different projects for a team of 30 and served as mentor for five scalable ad hoc project launches


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Marketing
University of San Francisco

### High School Diploma
San Francisco University High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michaelchan7

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Last updated: 2026-03-29