Rick Chou

Software Engineering Manager, Backend Tech Lead at Sundae
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Chicago, Illinois, United States, US
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Douglas Treadwell

Rick is a fantastic engineering manager and software engineer! It's always a good idea to have a manager who also knows how to do the job well and can ensure it's done right. Rick is a high volume producer of high quality, easy to read code, and helps level up everyone on his team with insightful suggestions. He's also great at organizing work, breaking down tasks, architecting solutions, and delegation, and he's very enjoyable to work with!

Vishal Kamble

Rick is a quick learner! In a short amount of time, he learned the Tech stack, gained domain knowledge, and resolved complex issues. Rick proactively worked on several research projects and built POC that helped the team to make the right architectural decisions. He is a good team player. Rick is a talented Engineer, yet humble.

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Credentials

  • Fundamentals of Product Management
    Stanford University
    Dec, 2022
    - Sep, 2024
  • Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
    Scrum.org
    Sep, 2022
    - Sep, 2024

Experience

  • Sundae
    • United States
    • Real Estate
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Software Engineering Manager, Backend Tech Lead
      • Apr 2022 - Present

      • Managing team of senior/staff software engineers building Sundae's marketplace (across web and iOS)• Tech lead and architect for backend infrastructure on Marketplace side• Closely collaborating with leadership, product, and other stakeholders for planning and executing on strategic business goals

    • Senior Backend Software Engineer
      • Oct 2021 - Apr 2022

      Building a marketplace which will connect property investors with sellers.• Key player in backend architecture and development• Created best practices for unit testing and other processes• Established hiring plan & process for attaining backend engineering talent

  • Expedia Group
    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Software Engineer III, Egencia
      • Jun 2020 - Oct 2021

      • Leading architecture and development of React PWA/SPA that’s part of a multi-team collaborative effort to shift the future of Egencia’s products to server-driven UI, GraphQL, React• Actively contributing to Egencia’s platform libraries serving as infrastructure for our Kotlin services and node.js web-applications• Worked with mobile team on implementation of GraphQL-kotlin services• Led small team for high-visibility project that involved migrating various app features to React• Contributed updates and improvements on “trips” itinerary web-application written in Java, and using Spring MVC/Handlebars • Building/maintaining reusable COVID-19 travel advisory component being utilized by multiple teams• Built internal automation tools for cleanly maintaining localization across any application• Mentored other engineers on front-end/React best practices and development• Improved and maintained documentation for multiple services• Java Spring MVC, React, Handlebars Show less

    • Software Engineer II, Multifamily
      • Oct 2018 - May 2020

      • Developed and deployed critical booking and payment back-end services to meet business deadline• Planned and built resident-hosting feature which involved significant updates to multiple node.jsservices, as well as Ruby on Rails/Angular applications• Created external-facing GraphQL gateway with user authentication to allow web applications todirectly communicate with essential back-end services• Wrote developer libraries for service-to-service passive rate-limiting, and for managing SQL tablemigrations• Built data synchronization processes that utilized Kafka to act upon application events• Developed unit and integration test framework for back-end services using Mocha and Sinon• Core tech-stack utilized: node.js, Angular, TypeScript, GraphQL, React, Postgres, Kafka, Javascript,Ruby Show less

  • ApartmentJet
    • United States
    • Real Estate
    • Software Engineer
      • Jan 2017 - Oct 2018

      • Played a pivotal role in architecting, developing, and launching MVP in first five months of the company • Created and led the architecture of initial Angular front-end and node.js back-end services • Created and maintained API integration services for asynchronous communication with AirBnb and HomeAway • Helped plan and develop microservice architecture that leveraged over a dozen back-end services • Helped build and maintain Google Cloud/Kubernetes infrastructure for hosted services • Significantly optimized operation team’s efficiency with API integration and automated processes that reduced the workload of common tasks • Core tech-stack utilized: node.js, Angular, TypeScript, MySQL, Javascript ES6 • Core cloud features utilized: Google-Cloud Firebase, CloudSQL, Datastore, Pubsub, Kubernetes Show less

  • Liaison Technologies
    • United States
    • Information Technology & Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Integration Engineer
      • Jul 2016 - Jan 2017

      Handled implementation of complex B2B solutions and technical services, development of JavaScript framework for new proprietary data platform, and consultation on NetSuite platform integration.

    • Client Services Engineer
      • Jun 2013 - Jul 2016

      Coordinated with clients to handle the development and integration of customer business technologies into our proprietary Liaison platform. These technologies facilitated the transfer of B2B documents and the implementation of various internal IT processes.

    • Mapping Analyst
      • Oct 2012 - Jun 2013

      Utilization of proprietary Delta/ECS technology to create web-forms and maps for B2B transactions. Facilitated the transfer of documents for small to mid-sized businesses.

Education

  • Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
    Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

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