About
Joshua Chen
Specialist in JavaScript and related technologies. Maintainer of the MDN JavaScript documentation. Contributor to impactful JavaScript infrastructure projects such as TypeScript and typescript-eslint. My main work focus is compilers and static analysis, but I am also interested in algorithms and functional programming.
My Yale undergraduate curriculum is focused on statistics, data science, and the quantitative modeling of human speech production and perception. I am also broadly interested in the computational model of syntax and semantics.
Education
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Bachelor's of Science, Yale University- Majors: Statistics & Data Science, Linguistics, Programming Certificate
- Courses taken
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High school, Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy- IB diploma
- Madam Luo's scholarship recipient (highest award); Leader of computerization club
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Middle school, Shanghai Huayu Middle School
Experiences
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Associate Consultant Intern, Bain & Company- Support Appliance Co in AI-enabled organization transformation
- Identify opportunity points, internal and external case studies of corporate AI use cases, zero-base redesign various organizations (marketing, finance, etc.) after AI adoption
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Undergraduate Learning Assistant (Teaching assistant), Yale University- For the course CPSC 223 Data structures and programming techniques
- Tutor students on programming projects written in C/C++; participate in designing course content
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Maintainer, typescript-eslint- Static analysis tool for TypeScript that reports potential logic bugs and unifies code style
- Core maintaining team, responsible for triaging issues, advising contributors, and reviewing pull requests
- 23 million weekly downloads (60% of TypeScript’s total traffic)
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Team lead & Advisor, CourseTable- Student-run project at Yale used by almost all Yale students
- Empowers the course registration process, including course search, filtering, and schedule management
- Maintain developer infrastructure, lead the frontend development, provide technical support on Docker, React, and TypeScript to the 10-person team
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Invited expert, MDN Web Docs- De-facto standard reference material in the web developer community
- Project lead for reviewing, maintaining, and writing documentation for JavaScript language features
- Work closely with Chrome and Firefox documenters to deliver new feature documentation
- Top 10 JavaScript pages total 2 million views / month
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Maintainer, Docusaurus- React-based documentation framework aiming to make setting up documentation websites easier
- Design and develop core features, instrument the shipping of 2.0 major rebuild
- 280,000 weekly downloads (among the highest in static site generators)
Writeups
I do competition problems and publish detailed writeups. (By the way, have you tried the little command line at the bottom right? You may just have seen the tip of the iceberg of the content this site hosts.)