About Me

Crafting the web, one pixel at a time.

San Francisco, CA·Open to work

I'm a full-stack developer with 5+ years of experience building digital products that people actually love using. I care deeply about the craft — the way a transition feels, the time to first byte, the developer experience of an API.

When I'm not coding, you'll find me hiking the Marin Headlands, shooting film photography, or deep-diving into generative art with WebGL. I believe great software is made by people who bring their full creative selves to the work.

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Alex Chen
5+
Years building
30+
Projects shipped

Toolkit

Skills & Technologies

Frontend

ReactTypeScriptNext.jsTanStackTailwind CSSThree.js

Backend

Node.jsPostgreSQLGraphQLREST APIsRedisDocker

Tools & Cloud

NetlifyVercelAWSFigmaGitCI/CD

Work History

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

Meridian Labs · San Francisco, CA

2022Present

Lead frontend development for Meridian's flagship B2B analytics platform serving 50k+ users. Architected a component library from scratch, reduced bundle size by 45%, and mentored a team of 4 junior engineers.

ReactTypeScriptGraphQLStorybookPerformance

Full Stack Developer

Wavefront Studio · Remote

20202022

Built customer-facing web apps and internal tooling for a design consultancy. Shipped 8 client projects end-to-end, introduced TypeScript across the entire codebase, and set up CI/CD pipelines that cut deployment time by 70%.

Node.jsReactTypeScriptPostgreSQLDockerCI/CD

Education

Background

UC Berkeley — B.S. Computer Science

Graduated with honors. Focused on human-computer interaction, graphics programming, and distributed systems. Senior thesis on adaptive UI systems earned best-in-class recognition from the HCI research group.