Jeong Woo Chang

I build things for the web.

Software Engineer with 11 years across startups and Big Tech. Currently building an AI-native CRM at Lightfield.

Experience

2025 —
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Lightfield (Pivoted from Tome) · Founding Engineer

AI-native CRM for startups. Building core product across the full stack.

2022 — 25
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Tome · Senior Software Engineer

AI presentation tool. Built AI features (text, slides, image generation), analytics, enterprise templates.

2021 — 22
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Meta · Senior Software Engineer

Built Metaverse Avatar Storefront for Family of Apps (FB, IG, Messenger, WhatsApp, Oculus). Owned payments and internal tools.

2020 — 21
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DocuSign · Software Engineer

Analytics for e-signatures. Visualized signing flows to help admins identify bottlenecks.

2016 — 20
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Microsoft · Software Engineer

Azure Portal. Built SDK and components for 80+ teams building portal extensions.

2011 — 13
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ZooQoos · CTO

Real-time auction e-commerce. Pioneered modern payments and UX in 2010s Korea.

B.S. Computer Science — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

What I Do

AI & LLM Integration

RAG systems, OpenAI APIs, AI image generation. Direct collaboration with OpenAI and StabilityAI.

Performance & DX

Build optimization, CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling. Biome, tsgo, GritQL.

Real-time Systems

Collaborative editing (Y.js/CRDT), WebSockets, GraphQL subscriptions.

Full-stack

React/Next.js frontend, Node.js backend, PostgreSQL, test infrastructure.

Technologies

React · Next.js · TypeScript · Node.js · GraphQL · PostgreSQL · Redis · AWS · Docker · Tailwind · GitHub Actions · Y.js · Vercel · Biome

Get in Touch

Always happy to connect and talk about interesting problems.