Welcome to my world

An overview of my skills and experiences

I'm a full-stack software engineer with 3+ years of experience building and scaling products at early-stage startups. Most recently, I spent three years at Magical (Series A), where I helped grow the company from a pre-revenue Chrome extension to $2M+ in ARR.

At Magical, I led the implementation of our monetization engine and enterprise offerings, built core infrastructure for subscription and entitlement systems, and contributed across the stack — from our AI agent platform to internal design systems.

My technical interests include UI/UX design and human-centered software. I want to build products that make people's lives easier and more enjoyable. For hobbies, I love playing almost all active sports, especially basketball & tennis, listening to music and, cooking (hopefully I'll be as skilled as my mom one day).

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Skills

Some of the many things I bring to the table...or the court.

  • TypeScript, React, Next.js, SQL, Python
  • AWS, Railway, Stigg, Stripe, WorkOS
  • LLMs, Cursor, Postman, Devin
  • English, Mandarin, Spanish
  • Notion, Microsoft Office, Google Suite
  • 3-pt Specialist, Can dunk on 9'5"

My Experience

A brief summary of my most relevant work experience and projects.

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Magical August 2022 - July 2025

Software Engineer

This was my first full-time role! Magical is a Series A start-up that is focused on automating mundane, repetitive workflows. For example, imagine you are a recruiter and you want to input all of your candidates' LinkedIn profiles into a spreadsheet. You could manually do this for a few candidates, but for hundreds of candidates, that would take a lot of time. Instead, Magical can automate this process.

When I first joined, we only had a pre-revenue Chrome extension product. I was fortunate enough to lead the monetization implementation - going from 0 paying customers to $2M+ in ARR today. In 2025, we shifted towards a new AI web application product, where I helped create the UI for the AI agent creation flow. At Magical, I got to wear many hats - from talking to customers to building our internal design system to creating AI agents. I'm so appreciative that this was my first full-time role - I met so many great people and learned so much.

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Capital One May 2021 - August 2021

Software Engineering Intern

After working at a start-up, I really wanted to work at an established tech company to experience the other end of the spectrum. I definitely got that at Capital One. I worked in an agile environment using a Jira board for the two-week sprints along with daily standups with our manager.

I worked in an intern pod with 3 other interns and got to and work with the full-time employees every day. I even got to experience a beta launch of the internal credit card policy builder tool I was working on! Throughout my internship, I received numerous swag bags, snack boxes, and GrubHub gift cards. I also had the opportunity to interact with the CEO! Not many internship experiences can say that.

Additionally, everyone that I ever talked to at Capital One felt like a genuine, friendly person that I would enjoy working with full-time. Capital One truly puts its employees first and has mastered work-life balance in the pandemic. To see what I got to work on at Capital One in more depth, check out my resume.

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LeaseMagnets January 2021 - May 2021

Software Engineering Intern

After enjoying the previous summer working at LeaseMagnets & becoming extremely tired of Zoom university, I returned to LeaseMagnets the winter 2021 semester to continue my web development journey. This time around, I had a lot more responsibilities and a broader range of projects. Check out everything I worked on here.

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LeaseMagnets June 2020 - August 2020

Software Engineering Intern

After my original summer internship got canceled, I, fortunately, found a new internship through Ann Arbor SPARK & was matched with a start-up founded by 2 Michigan undergrads called LeaseMagnets. LeaseMagnets is a start-up looking to reinvent digital marketing and virtual leasing tools for apartments, specifically student housing, multi-family housing, and senior living.

For more details: check out my blog, read an awesome article from SPARK, or watch my interview on Instagram.

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Kellogg Eye Center May 2019 - February 2020

Assistant-in-Research

Over my freshman year summer, I conducted research on pig eyes and surgical videos of human eyes with the goal to develop a pre-operative test for glaucoma patients considering surgery. My partner and I developed a video analysis protocol that uses ImageJ determine a relationship between the density of the outflow system and success rate of surgery. I continued to do part-time work with pig eye experiments during the school year.

Education

I graduated from the University of Michigan in May 2022 with a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science and a minor in Spanish.

See more details about my experience at Michigan, such as my extracurriculars and coursework, here.

Contact Me

If you would like to get in touch with me, email is the easiest way to reach me.

Jonathan Chuang