Sean Chan
About
Sean Chan is from San Francisco Bay Area. Sean works in the following industries: "Computer Software", "Internet", "Higher Education", "Information Technology & Services", "Financial Services", "Consumer Electronics", and "Wireless". Sean is currently Head of Engineering, Consumer Experiences - Come join us! at Scratch, located in San Francisco Bay Area. In Sean's previous role as a Software Engineering Manager at Twitter, Sean worked in San Francisco Bay Area until Aug 2021. Prior to joining Twitter, Sean was a Tech Lead Software Engineer at Twitter and held the position of Tech Lead Software Engineer at San Francisco, California. Prior to that, Sean was a Tech Lead at Peer - Feedback at work (acquired by Twitter) from May 2015 to Apr 2016. Sean started working as Android Engineer at Clinkle in San Francisco Bay Area in Aug 2013. From Jun 2012 to Aug 2013, Sean was Full Stack Software Engineer at Okta, Inc., based in San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, Sean was a Software Engineer at Qualcomm from Aug 2010 to May 2012. Sean started working as Software Engineer Intern at Intuit in Jun 2009.
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Sean Chan's current jobs
Transforming the relationship between borrowers and debt for the better. Not only do we help borrowers take on their largest debt obligations, we also allow them to see their entire debt portfolio to help them optimize for their goals. It is a huge engineer task to get things right for our borrowers in addition to showing them the way. We are building the debt repayment platform that will affect millions of lives. If this sounds interesting, do not hesitate to DM me.
Sean Chan's past jobs
- Designed and drove execution of the technical architecture of the Periscope Android App - Implemented and launched the first ever monetizable product on Periscope - Continued establishing best practices such as introducing modern Android technologies (Kotlin, RxJava, MVP, and Retrofit) to improve code maintainability - Partnered with my manager to add 4 more engineers to the team within 6 months - Proactively authored rubrics to accelerate Android engineer hiring at Twitter
- First engineer and lead on the Android team - Built a production-ready Android app from scratch - Partnered with Product and Design lead to experiment with animations and game mechanics - Coached junior engineer and established best practices for Android development
- one of the three engineers responsible for migrating Clinkle Android application from OpenGL to stock Android - created pivotal user experiences in the application such as Signup, History, and Settings - stabilized the application by reducing the memory footprint and sped up the Contact look up task by 100x, found these problems but profiling the application
- Spring web framework - Created initial dynamic feature manager, dynamic as turning on/off feature at runtime - Work on v1 of iOS app - Built v1 of Android app
Working on the RIL driver for the Mobile Division, helped getting Windows Phones to market
Further progressed logging on the TurboTax system. Worked on the GUI of TurboTax incorporating user experience results, specifically the refund monitor. Participated in the 24 hack-a-thon and created a robot for Google wave.
Worked in the security group Created the frontend for a security key extractions Integrated the client program with the server Stress tested server by imitating clients as multiple threads
Help students debug programs Helping students develop debugging skills - Print statements - Use gdb
Made test cases for testing data systems Stress tested data systems