Summary
Alex Cheuk is a Staff Frontend Engineer and architect with 13 years of experience building and scaling web applications, currently leading frontend architecture at Procurify. He combines deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and CSS with strong backend and cloud knowledge (Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, AWS) to deliver resilient, user-focused interfaces. Alex has driven major platform migrations (AngularJS to React), improved developer productivity by cutting test and CI times dramatically, and built internal dev tools like code generators and VSCode extensions. He’s played a pivotal role in growing the engineering organization—scaling the frontend team and the company from a handful to hundreds—and led a product that tracks over $2 billion in annual business spending. Curious and hands-on, he blends craftsmanship with mentorship, hiring, and onboarding to sustain high-performing teams.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University