# Stanley Chan

> Software Engineer (Full Time) at Quizlet

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/stanleychan

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Quizlet
Jan 2021 – Present
- Archetect and migrate Quizlet Live from VMs to Kubernetes with 99.9% reliability and auto-scaling on stateful games. Built on Google Kubernetes engine with Agones platform, Octops and Envoy. Providing values to millions of teachers across the world while savng hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for the company.
- Lead engineering effort on smart assist which utilizes AI to help students create content.
- Working on cutting edge MCP Server for ChatGPT App

### Software Engineer (Full Time) @ Quizlet
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Led a team of 3 to rewrite 4 study modes used by 50M+ monthly active users
- Delivered various personalized and educational based recommendation pipeline while leading a team of 6 engineers and collaborate cross teams under strict deadline.
- Architected tag recommendation microservice and pipeline, allowing users to tag millions of study sets on site.
- Led engineering redesign of Quizlet Live (used by 10% of active users) with 3 other engineers.

Skills: React.js, Typescript, HHVM, Node.js, Kotlin, Microservices, Spanner, Kubernetes.

### Software Engineering Consultant @ Quizlet
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco
- Built localization pipeline adding support for 13+ different languages across multiple countries.
- Spearheaded advertisement placement campaigns,  ranging from refreshing ads to sticky ads, which generated more than 4x revenue.
- Rebuilt push notifications delivery system to scale sending to 10+ million unique users per day.
- Architect sitemap generation system through Airflow for 60M of URLs segmented by AI generated categories and eventually, 200M URLs.

### General software developer @ CollectorsWeekly.com
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
Maintaining and updating outdated apache site. Collaborate with PMs on product development.

- Migrated application from PHP 5.4 to PHP 7.1 with PSR-7. Introduced modern stack including Nginx, FastRoute, React, Webpack, without any downtime.
- Rebuilt cloud deployment process on Google Cloud, adding ability to load balance traffic and rollback deploys.
- Launched a site redesign in collaboration with product management and leadership include mobile friendliness and design works.

Now purchased by Barnebys. Also ensure smooth transition with Barnebys' engineers.

### Research Assistant and Web Developer @ Stanford University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Remote
Building a psychology research web application that allows researchers to create and run experiments.

Features:
- Allows researchers to create custom surveys with audio, images, instructions, questions, and more
- Multiple trials with randomization and configurations
- Follows APA conduct of ethics by storing participants data in localStorage, away from the server
- Standard local and production deployment with git

Technologies used: PHP (Laravel), HTML, SCSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Git


## Education
### BA in Psychology/Behavioral Science
San José State University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stanleychan1943

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Last updated: 2026-03-20