Individual Front-end Consultant
2015 - PRESENTFreelance- Created reusable React components with CSS modules.
- Transformed mockups from designers into a fully functional single page and React/Webpack/Babel-based application.
- Set up a test environment for testing React components.
- Migrated the existing Backbone.js-based controllers, views, and routers into React components.
- Migrated an asset build tool from RequireJS to Webpack.
- Migrated a JavaScript module format from AMD to CommonJS/ES2015 module.
Technologies: ECMAScript (ES6), Babel, Webpack, React, AMDSenior Front-end Engineer (Contractor)
2021 - 2022Automobile Manufacturing Company- Developed a Next.js single-page application with smooth navigation and a great user experience. It leverages JavaScript, React, Xstate, and Chakra-UI as the foundation, and Lodash, date-fns, and i18next for fine-granted features.
- Used GitHub issues and PRs and extensive code reviews. Communications were done on GitHub issues and Slack DMs and could work with vague requirements.
- Impressed stockholders and users with the new system, greatly improved their daily workflow efficiency, and reduced wasted time.
Technologies: JavaScript, React, Chakra UI, Next.js, XState, APIs, RESTful APIs, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Application State Management, InternationalizationFront-end Engineer
2014 - 2015SpoonRocket- Worked closely with designers and product managers to deliver features within a sprint cycle.
- Rewrote the entire single-paged client code with batman.js starting from an AngularJS app.
- Improved efficiency by 20% by restructuring the server-generated JavaScript response into a JSON-based API for a dashboard page.
- Created email templates from scratch with mockups from designers.
- Refactored the existing Ruby on Rails views into a more modular and reusable way.
Technologies: batman.js, jQuery, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby
Tom Chen
React Developer in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Member since March 6, 2016
Tom is a React guru with considerable experience in front-end web development. His most recent experience includes targeting single-page applications (SPAs) and refactoring legacy codes. Tom is an open-source contributor and has written several React components hosted on GitHub.
https://tomchentw.com
Tom is now available for hire
Portfolio
- FreelanceECMAScript (ES6), Babel, Webpack, React, AMD
- Automobile Manufacturing CompanyJavaScript, React, Chakra UI, Next.js, XState, APIs, RESTful APIs...
- SpoonRocketbatman.js, jQuery, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby
Experience
- JavaScript 7 years
- HTML5 6 years
- Single-page Applications (SPA) 6 years
- CSS3 6 years
- React 5 years
- Babel 4 years
- Webpack 4 years
- ECMAScript (ES6) 1 year
Availability
Full-time
Preferred Environment
React, Babel, Webpack, Next.js, Single-page Applications (SPA), REST, Styled-components, Redux, XState, SWC
The most amazing...
...project I've contributed to are the open-source projects that have brought about notable improvements and for which I received positive feedback.
Employment
Experience
- GitHubhttps://github.com/tomchentw
Employed my skills and knowledge in the field to contribute to open source projects and cooperated closely with a number of designers and product managers to ensure that their vision was delivered in a timely and professional manner.
Skills
Languages
ECMAScript (ES6), JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3Libraries/APIs
ReactTools
Webpack, Babel, PostCSSParadigms
Functional Reactive Programming, Functional Programming, RESTOther
Single-page Applications (SPA), Electrical Engineering, Chakra UI, XState, APIs, RESTful APIs, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Application State Management, Internationalization, Styled-components, SWCFrameworks
Next.js, ReduxPlatforms
AMD
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering2009 - 2013National Taiwan University - Taipei, Taiwan
