About

陈 (chén) 思 (sī) 达 (dá)
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 computation models and functional programming.

My Yale undergraduate study is mostly around quantitative social science, with a curriculum focused on statistics, data science, and the syntax and semantics of natural languages.

Education

August 2022 –
Bachelor's of Science, Yale University
- BS in Statistics & Data Science, BA in Linguistics
September 2019 – June 2022
High school, Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy
- IB diploma
- Madam Luo's scholarship recipient (highest award); Leader of computerization club
September 2015 – June 2019
Middle school, Shanghai Huayu Middle School

Experiences

October 2022 –
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)
October 2022 –
Developer, 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
June 2022 –
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
October 2021 –
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)