Tsung-Ting (John) Chen, Software Developer in Toronto, ON, Canada
Tsung-Ting (John) Chen

Software Developer in Toronto, ON, Canada

Member since October 28, 2020
With over 13 years of web development experience, John has led teams in enterprise fintech and telecom companies such as OMERS, Royal Bank of Canada, TELUS Digital, Rangle.io, and Progressive Insurance. John specializes in both Angular and React front ends with optional Node.js support. John sees Toptal as an amazing platform because the variety of opportunities it offers will allow him to meet and work with other top-quality engineers in the field.
Tsung-Ting is now available for hire

Portfolio

Experience

Location

Toronto, ON, Canada

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

MacOS, Slack, Git

The most amazing...

...thing I developed is a rendering engine capable of custom routing, layout, and content generation by modifying content on a CMS.

Employment

  • React Chapter Lead

    2019 - 2020
    OMERS
    • Managed 16 React developers across different teams, facilitated cross-team functions such as chapter meetings, component library guild, and initiatives such as feature flags.
    • Created a dynamic content rendering engine to read from Contentful CMS and display custom webpage content and layout based on the data retrieved. Having content as data eliminated the need to deploy code whenever creating or updating a page.
    • Used React Redux to manage state in complex, highly interactive logged in the portal for the OMERS Pension.
    • Communicated, built, and demoed the proof of concept (POC) used in the Contentful CMS site-builder to business leaders, then led the team to implement that idea into a successful product.
    • Mentored and led four junior developers, three of whom received team and company recognition as intermediate level developers after one year.
    Technologies: Next.js, Node.js, Contentful, React Redux, React
  • Senior Angular Developer (Contract)

    2019 - 2019
    Royal Bank of Canada
    • Separated Angular project from its Go back end, enabling Angular to be deployed and served separately from Go. This allows for better separation of concern and an independent release schedule.
    • Implemented the Node.js server as a backend for frontend (BFF), with Passport.js as the authentication layer. This allows the Go server to become a microservice and focus on business logic.
    • Integrated OAuth into the Node.js server to pave the path for a single sign-on (SSO) experience with other Royal Bank services.
    Technologies: Go, Passport.js, Node.js, NgRx, Angular
  • Software and Architecture Consultant

    2018 - 2019
    RewardOps
    • Embedded with client company teams, including LoyaltyOne and BMO, and implemented front-end applications to support RewardOps’ Software as a Service (SaaS) back end.
    • Wrote a transform library to convert RewardOps backend responses to transform data to deal with specific UI rendering concerns.
    • Maintained a demo front-end client application so RewardOps can show off their Software as a Service capability to potential clients.
    Technologies: NgRx, Node.js, Angular
  • Lead IT Architect

    2017 - 2018
    TELUS Digital
    • Created a custom rendering engine to allow content creators to build the site they want without going through developers.
    • Created a what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) editor to read and save content, enabling a more straightforward GUI and better site editing experience.
    • Created a grid system to eliminate the need for an ever-expanding collection of unique UI renderers. A new website element can be created through the composition of grid components.
    Technologies: Antd, Contentful, React
  • Solution Architect

    2015 - 2017
    Rangle.io
    • Provided onsite consultation and mentorship traveling to the client’s office and directly mentor three software teams delivering software.
    • Trained and mentored developers on areas such as Redux patterns, separation of data and logic, and data modeling for the front end.
    • Provided architectural code reviews for the client's pull requests to ensure the single direction data Flow is implemented correctly.
    • Adapted and implemented the correct Agile and Scrum philosophy in challenging the Waterfall organization.
    • Provided weekly consultation sessions to advise on previous week’s problems and work out plans for work needed to be completed next week.
    • Reviewed Redux implementation and observable usage to ensure best practices are followed.
    • Suggested internationalization strategies using NGX-translate and Angular2 translation implementation.
    • Developed a three-day training course to build enterprise-level software using Angular2 and Redux.
    • Delivered training through live coding and exercises. Used slides as supplementary material.
    Technologies: Node.js, NgRx, Angular

Experience

  • BlueBird Stock Random Walk Analysis

    If we take stock fluctuations as a series of numbers whose relations with each other are only a series of random deltas, is there an algorithm to outperform the buy and hold strategy? This is the simulation and evaluation tool created to evaluate such a strategy.

    Based on the algorithm created from the findings here, I built a trading algorithm hooked to Questrade API and traded with real money. It ran for one year before Questrade changed its user agreement and shut it down. The algorithm performance gained 13% versus a buy and hold strategy of a 15% gain.

  • TELUS Digital Site Builder
    https://www.telus.com/en/

    A React rendering engine that takes content from Contentful CMS and renders dynamic webpages. Having layout information and web content retrieved from Contentful enables publishing flexible, dynamic web pages without the code deployment.

  • OMERS Static Site Generator
    https://www.omers.com/

    A React-based Next.js application taking Contentful data organized in rows and dynamically rendering it onto the webpage. The payload is cached per page to improve performance. The ability to publish static content outside of release cycles proved extremely valuable during COVID-19 times, where information needs to be shared quickly. A two-week deployment cycle would hurt business values.

Skills

  • Languages

    HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Java, C, C++, PHP, Flash ActionScript, Go
  • Frameworks

    Angular, Ionic, AngularJS, Next.js
  • Libraries/APIs

    React, React Redux, NgRx, Node.js, Passport.js, Antd, jQuery
  • Tools

    Git, Slack
  • Platforms

    Contentful, MacOS
  • Industry Expertise

    IT Security
  • Storage

    MongoDB, Databases, MySQL, Redis Cache
  • Other

    Algorithms, Server-side Rendering

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineerinig
    2003 - 2007
    University of Toronto - Toronto, Canada

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