Lai Jiang
Verified Expert in Engineering
React Developer
Toronto, ON, Canada
Toptal member since February 2, 2022
Lai is a senior web developer with seven years of industry experience. He excels in front-end development, Node.js back-end development, and computer vision research. Additionally, he has senior-level proficiency in tech stack, responsive design, and software engineering and architecture. Lai enjoys delivering innovative solutions in the eCommerce industry.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 7 years
- React - 5 years
- Node.js - 5 years
- Shopify - 4 years
- TypeScript - 3 years
- jQuery - 3 years
- Vue - 3 years
- AWS Lambda - 2 years
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Slack, Jira
The most amazing...
...thing I've delivered is a web page with 10,000,000+ user views for a big company.
Work Experience
Front-end Lead and Senior Web Developer
Indoc Research
- Designed the front-end architecture and performed peer code reviews.
- Developed core features in the portal system, such as file explorer and schema editor.
- Designed the UI/UX mockup for a portal project and participated in UX and UI review.
- Supervised junior web developers and scheduled training accordingly.
Senior Full-stack Developer
RIFO Holding Group
- Built and maintained the website and back-end services for users and agents' applications.
- Developed the app on services platform using React Native and Expo and back-end microservices on the serverless framework, AWS Lambda, and GraphQL.
- Rebuilt the app home page with Objective-C and Xcode and published it in the app store.
Full-stack Developer
Ventmere
- Analyzed current system structure, designed and coded multilingual support, image cache support, and theme support for upcoming business needs. Created operations management plugin for Edifier, which increased maintenance efficiency five times.
- Improved SEO ranking from different aspects, optimized site performance, built the sitemap, structured data, and completed backlink and keyword requirements functions.
- Built and maintained eCommerce sites for Edifier, Ventray, and Ventmere and created responsive standards for better UX.
Front-end Developer
Alibaba Group
- Developed the front end, participated in promotion business, and estimated time and costs.
- Updated the index page by migrating it from Java to Node.js and added a level-based cache, which resulted in a twofold increase of requests per second.
- Designed and implemented a particle system on the web page, empowering users to create individual particle animation.
- Read specifications on W3C and designed the structure of JSON to support the web page editor.
- Combined artificial intelligence and front-end business, implemented the automatic system to replace repeated workforce, and achieved awards at data mining competition and Mao Pi conference.
Experience
Ventmere Company Website
RIFO Vendor App
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/rifo-vendor/id1454983857I used Node.js, AWS Lambda, and GraphQL for the back end as a developer. I also acted as a designer of the entire app, which gave me real working experience doing sketches and presenting UI to customers.
Charite VRE Website
I was the front-end lead of the whole project. I designed the front-end architecture for the UI portal, including authorization and authentication layer and plugin-based web file explorer. As the front-end lead, I encouraged my team to improve code quality and expand their skills.
Education
Master's Degree in Software Engineering
University of Science and Technology of China - Hefei, China
Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications - Beijing, China
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Vue, Node.js, jQuery, Three.js, React Redux
Tools
Wix, Git, Canvas 2D, Slack, Jira, Sketch, Expo, Asana
Languages
JavaScript, CSS3, TypeScript, GraphQL, Python
Frameworks
Next.js, Redux, React Native, Express.js
Platforms
Shopify, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Docker, WordPress, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Paradigms
Test Automation
Storage
MySQL, Memcached, Redis
Other
Software Development, Google SEO, Software Architecture, Gatsby, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Animation
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