Tsung-Ting is available for hire
Hire Tsung-TingTsung-Ting (John) Chen
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Location
Toronto, ON, Canada
Toptal 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.
Portfolio
Agoro Carbon Alliance - Main
React, Node.js, Next.js, LaunchDarkly, DocuSign, Mailchimp...
TD Securities
Angular, GraphQL, Front-end, Agile, Figma, Back-end
OMERS
Next.js, Node.js, Contentful, React Redux, React, Git, Slack, HTML, CSS...
Experience
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Slack, Git, React Redux
The most amazing...
...thing I developed is a rendering engine capable of custom routing, layout, and content generation by modifying content on a CMS.
Work Experience
Senior Fullstack Developer
2022 - PRESENT
Agoro Carbon Alliance - Main
- I have been responsible for developing software solutions that streamline the sales and contracting process within the global carbon-credit initiative, facilitating the onboarding of new farmers.
- Wrap Grommet Form Components in a rendering engine that takes in a configuration JSON and produces react elements that work together to form a form.
- Establish webhooks to facilitate seamless integration with Salesforce. As leads progressed through the Salesforce pipeline, our system could trigger webhooks to create Auth0 user accounts, ensuring a streamlined lead-to-user conversion process.
- Develop AWS Lambda functions to serve as gateways for Salesforce webhooks. These functions encompassed tasks such as parsing request bodies, authentication checks using JWT tokens, and other essential processing steps.
- Designed a system that managed the lifecycle of contracts as they transitioned through various statuses in both Salesforce and our system. The system reacts to statuses changes that impacted opportunities and handles of these effects.
Technologies: React, Node.js, Next.js, LaunchDarkly, DocuSign, Mailchimp, Salesforce SOQL/SOSL, Grommet, RESTful Microservices, PostgreSQL, AWS Lambda, Front-end, REST, Agile, Figma, Back-end, SQL
Senior Frontend Developer
2020 - 2022
TD Securities
- I developed an application that configures report aggregation methods for our reporting platform. These parameters significantly improves the efficiency of report generation, ensuring that the generated reports are both meaningful and performant.
- I maintained and enhanced a versatile reporting application capable of reporting data for various teams within TD Securities. This involved working with a dynamic GraphQL layer enabling seamless database queries.
- I implemented a migration tool to assist BAs in migrating their configurations between environments efficiently. This tool streamlined the setup of metadata definitions across environments, reducing setup time and enhancing workflow efficiency.
- I leveraged the power of Ag-Grid to produce reports resembling spreadsheets, focusing on critical trading metrics such as profit-loss and book value. These reports have been instrumental in providing valuable insights into trading operations.
Technologies: Angular, GraphQL, Front-end, Agile, Figma, Back-end
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, Git, Slack, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Front-end, Mobile First, REST, Agile, Figma, Back-end
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, Git, Slack, React Redux, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Front-end, REST, Agile, Figma, Back-end
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, Git, Slack, React Redux, Passport.js, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Front-end, Mobile First, REST, Agile, Back-end
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, Git, Slack, React Redux, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Front-end, Mobile First, REST, Agile, Back-end
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, Git, Slack, React Redux, Passport.js, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, Front-end, Mobile First, REST, Agile, Back-end, SQL
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.
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, SQL, Java, C, C++, PHP, Flash ActionScript, Go, GraphQL
Frameworks
Angular, Next.js, Ionic, AngularJS
Libraries/APIs
React, React Redux, NgRx, Node.js, Passport.js, Antd, jQuery
Tools
Git, Slack, Figma, LaunchDarkly, Mailchimp
Paradigms
REST, Agile
Platforms
Contentful, MacOS, Salesforce SOQL/SOSL, AWS Lambda
Industry Expertise
IT Security
Storage
MongoDB, Databases, MySQL, Redis Cache, PostgreSQL
Other
Algorithms, Front-end, Back-end, Mobile First, Server-side Rendering (SSR), DocuSign, Grommet, RESTful Microservices
Education
2003 - 2007
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineerinig
University of Toronto - Toronto, Canada