//TIM.CHAO

// Personnel Records · Personal Profile

Hi, I‘m Tim Chao

·LOCATION: TAIWAN

·SPECIALTY: FULL-STACK + VIBE CODING

Mission Statement

I have approximately five years of full-stack engineering experience across fintech and industrial IoT. I excel at identifying and resolving issues, am familiar with AI-native development workflows, and have achieved productivity gains of more than 2x. I am able to quickly grasp complex systems and optimize them.

Current Focus

Creating a One-of-a-Kind Product

EQUIPMENT MANIFEST

  • Next.js / React
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js / Python
  • PostgreSQL / Prisma
  • OpenAI / Claude API
  • Vercel / Docker
Career History

Nov. 2023 – Present

Finance Module Senior Backend Engineer

JKOPay

Built finance team admin portal (Next.js + TypeScript) with 20+ API endpoints, reducing daily ops time by 50%+. Refactored settlement system from Python to .NET with 40x performance gain. Adopted AI-native workflow with Claude Code, Playwright MCP, and Atlassian MCP. Developed migrant worker remittance module end-to-end.

Sep. 2021 – Jun. 2023

Software Engineer

Liteon Technology

Built IIoT equipment monitoring dashboard with React, deployed across 9 factory sites via Kubernetes, processing 20k+ data points per minute. Built company-wide Teams Chat Bot powered by Azure OpenAI and Cosmos DB. Developed Internal Document Search Engine API using Azure Cognitive Search and OpenAI.

EDUCATION

National Taipei University of Technology — M.S. Computer Science (2019–2021)

National Taipei University of Technology — B.S. Computer Science (2015–2019)

LANGUAGES

Chinese — Native

English — TOEIC 770 / TOEFL 79