Liz Lee
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorLiz Lee is a seasoned frontend engineering leader, currently shaping scalable, high-performance UI at Apple as a UI Engineer in Services Engineering. With 12+ years delivering web applications and a track record leading frontend initiatives at Crunchbase and Fandom, she specializes in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and performance-driven UI/UX. She has steered cross-functional teams through large-scale programs, mentorship, and system design, balancing developer experience with polished user interfaces. Her career spans hands-on frontend work, backend contributions, and startup-like leadership across companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, including a stint teaching and mentoring at Hack Reactor. A UCSC History graduate, she brings a broad perspective to product design and has roots in open-ended web development from freelance to large consumer products. Notable early contributions include leadership in Wikia/Fandom projects and shaping front-end directions across consumer-facing products.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
mediawiki10
php10
mustache7
sql-query6
sqlquery6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Wikia/app
Jun 2013 - Sep 2017
Wikia Application Code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1847 commits, 139 PRs, 393 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Liz's contributions primarily involve removing and addressing issues related to video view counts within the Wikia application. They removed view count functionality from multiple areas including the video caption, lightbox, special videos page, and related PHP files. The user also added comments in the code to indicate that view counts were buggy. The user also worked on renaming and adding a controller with a template for community page test and model.
wikiphpwikiamediawiki
Wikia/infobox-template-builder
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:19 PRs, 106 pushes, 19 branches in 25 days
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