Andrew Chau
Open to backend and data roles. Just back from a year of humanitarian work abroad.

I build backend systems and pipelines for work, and icebreaker games that get a room of strangers laughing.

Projects

Roomful

Party games for a room full of people. A host projects the lobby onto a screen, and players join from their phones with a 4-letter code, no account needed. Each room lives on its own tiny server that just disappears once everyone's gone.

Next.js · TypeScript · Cloudflare Durable Objects · Tailwind

nghe-di

I'm teaching myself Vietnamese, so I built the course I wished existed. Claude writes the curriculum and dialogues, ElevenLabs voices them, and structured, audio-first lessons come out the other end.

No live demo yet, so here's the lesson curriculum instead, to show the design thinking behind it.

Python · Claude API · ElevenLabs

Gray

A Chrome extension that blocks images and mutes video by default, everywhere, for faster, distraction-free browsing. Blocks at the network level before bytes download, with one-click per-site exceptions.

JavaScript · Chrome Extension · declarativeNetRequest

Education

2021

UCLA · B.S. Computer Science

3.72 GPA.

Experience

2025

VideoAmp · Intermediate Data Engineer

Built Snowflake and Airflow ETL pipelines powering daily reporting dashboards.

2023–25

Fincons · AppleTV+ · Software Engineer I

Architected a Single-Source-of-Truth metadata platform across 7 systems, using GraphQL federation and Kafka pipelines handling 10k+ events a day.

2022–23

Fincons · AppleTV+ · Associate Software Engineer

Led development of a multi-tenant notification system and built a secure file attachment feature with versioning.

2020

3Diligent · Backend Software Engineering Intern

2019

SAS · Technical Intern

2018

SuperMoney · Engineering Intern

Skills

Languages

Java · TypeScript · JavaScript · SQL · Python · Go

Backend

Node.js · Spring Boot · Kafka · GraphQL (Apollo Federation)

Data

Snowflake · Airflow · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · OracleDB

Frontend

Vue · React

About

Based in Irvine, CA, open to hybrid or remote. Outside of shipping code I boulder (stuck at v6-7 for now), bake more than one person should really eat alone, and host game nights for 50+ college and high school students. That last one is basically how Roomful started.