# Qing Yu Chai

> SWE@Envoy | B.S. in Computer Science

Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/qingyuchai

My name is Qingyu Chai, and I'm from from Warsaw, Poland. 

Outside of academics and professional development, I enjoy playing video games, climbing, playing the piano, as well as arranging popular songs into piano pieces.

Major: Computer Science

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Envoy
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Box
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Redwood City, California, United States
● Led incident remediations as first responder after-hours, pulling in engineers as needed, keeping cross-function stakeholders like engineering leadership and product support up to date, and pushing a resolution
● Authored documentation such as migration guides, clarifying service ownership and recurring on-call issues and solutions, referenced by multiple external engineers, as well as leadership at the director level
● Maintainer of Box UI Elements, an open source UI component library, allowing customers to plug and play Box components within their apps, and internal devs to reuse UI components (https://github.com/box/box-ui-elements)
● Refactored java spring based micro services using Lombok and Jackson, removing over 1000 lines of code

### Software Engineer Intern @ Box
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
● Deployed a resolution for a production defect affecting customer developers within 2 weeks of starting
● Defined and implemented new OAS v3 compatible endpoints, allowing developers to retrieve information about the enablement state and visibility of their OAuth 2.0 applications, with UI deployed to production behind a feature flip

### Software Engineer @ Byto
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
● Designed and implemented a social framework for a community-based gig hiring platform, providing the essential features of allowing users to view a personalized feed, comment on posts, and create new posts
● Deployed Firebase cloud functions that respond to real-time events and propagates changes accordingly
● Supported the team by creating ready-to-use front-end components, speeding up development for peers
● Identified and resolved issues experienced by beta users within 12 hours of reporting

### German Grader @ Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | United States
Responsible for grading quizzes and exams of students taking German classes.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

### American School of Warsaw

### Willy Brandt Schule, Deutsche Schule Warschau


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/qing-yu-chai-61133b158
- Website: https://github.com/QingyuChai

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Last updated: 2026-04-01