# Tzu-Chia Chiu

> Software Engineer

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

Software engineer with 3+ years of experience building Java frameworks and backend systems with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Redis, Kafka, SQL, NoSQL, MyBatis, Hibernate. Strong expertise in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented design. Highly adaptable to fast-changing environments.

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

### Software Engineer @ SHEIN Technology LLC
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineer @ UNICON International
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
- Collected system requirements by doing customer surveys, interviews, and prototype demos.
- Developed full-stack air quality systems for county and state governments to regulate and analyze over 100K industrial users using Spring, and SQL Server. The system improves the decision-making process by over 30%.
- Built and normalized/denormalized databases and table structures, maintained over 1000 tables and 10M+ records. Improve future development productivity by reducing the effort of maintaining duplicate data.
- Refactored SQL scripts and service code, boosted the performance by over 50% for 20+ queries across the system.

### Software Engineer @ UNICON International
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineer @ Lead Advance Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Taipei City, Taiwan
- Developed backend systems of sports lottery using Spring Boot, Hibernate, MyBatis, Redis, Kafka, MySQL, and MongoDB. The system handles 1000+ concurrent users with daily active users over 100K.
- Improved future productivity by at least 50% by decoupling the validation service from the sports betting service.
- Used Spring Boot Cache and Redis to implement the cache mechanism. Cached 20+ most commonly called APIs in the system and increased the average response time across all APIs from 1s to 200ms.
- Improved the availability of odds information puller service by introducing redundancy and ZooKeeper. Reduced the time to recover service from 20 minutes to within 1 minute.
- Mentored and assisted junior developers; conducted code reviews weekly to ensure the high quality of code.

### Software Engineer @ Potix Corporation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Taipei City, Taiwan
- Developed an open-source Java Web Framework(ZK) using Java, Spring, TypeScript, jQuery, HTML, and Less. The framework achieves an average of 4+ times productivity boost for building enterprise web and mobile apps.
- Created and refined 30+ ZK web components used by 1000+ developers across 100+ organizations globally.
- Wrote test scripts using JUnit and Selenium to cover all test cases. Improved the code coverage from 60% to 90%.
- Produced technical documents and blogs for user training and collected feedback for future product improvement.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Bootcamp in Integrated Course on Enterprise-Level Information Technology
Institute for Information Industry
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor's degree in Radio, Television and Film
Shih Hsin University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/charleschiu1218

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Source: https://flows.cv/tzuchia
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tzuchia/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22