Software Engineer @ From September 2013 to Present (2 years 2 months) Independent Software Developer & World Nomad @ - Involved in and co-founded multiple software projects (listed in Projects below), primarily contributing with mobile and web development - see my GitHub for more details: https://github.com/nathanwchan
- Challenged myself to learn new and current languages and technologies by expanding my open source development experience, while learning through online courses such as Coursera
- Contributed to multiple non-profit organizations in third-world countries, including Nepal and Cambodia, via in-person commissions and providing technical assistance (primarily software development)
- Lived and traveled in 11 countries during this time From October 2012 to September 2013 (1 year) Software Development Engineer in Test @ - Played a core role in the feature and testability design of the data and service migration of our 2007 SharePoint Online customers to the 2010 datacenter infrastructure
- Authored automation for the migration process which saved hundreds of developer hours for the core engineering team
- Driver for ensuring the high availability of the entire SharePoint Online service in meeting our 99.9% uptime service license agreement
- Gained extensive expertise in datacenter management & design, topology deployments and operational orchestration, working closely with our operations engineering team
- Authored several monitoring and debugging tools to increase efficiency and reduce on-call engineer investigation time by several magnitudes From August 2009 to September 2012 (3 years 2 months) Redmond, WACo-founder and Developer @ - Designed, developed and launched multiple Windows Phone applications, totaling over 150,000 downloads to date, at over 1,000 downloads per day
- Notable Windows Phone apps:
--- Friend Central – “Facebooking is a game!” (http://tinyurl.com/6ore67m)
--- Shanka Chinese – English-Chinese dictionary & integrated flashcard system (http://tinyurl.com/7jzdnd4) From June 2011 to March 2012 (10 months) Software Development Engineer in Test Intern @ - Developed a code coverage tool to discover bugs and gaps in existing SharePoint server automation
- Drove team-wide initiative to fill automation gaps and ensure test quality
- Authored test documentation, wrote automation and took overall validation ownership of a UI-centric SharePoint feature (People Picker) From May 2008 to August 2008 (4 months) Redmond, WA
B.S, Computer Engineering @ University of Toronto Nathan Chan is skilled in: HTML, C#, .NET, SQL, Visual Studio, Software Development, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Django, C, Silverlight, Powershell, Git, Eclipse, Windows Phone, Mobile Phone Apps, mobile, Game Development, Heroku, iOS, jQuery, Lean Startup, Software Engineering, Testing, Web Development
Websites:
http://nathanwchan.com