Alex Chin
Digital Consultant at wearepad
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Chin is a seasoned digital consultant and full-stack web developer with 12 years of experience building and scaling product-driven startups across London and the UK. He has repeatedly combined hands-on engineering—shipping React Native, NodeJS and TypeScript solutions—with strategic leadership as CTO and founder, driving technical transformations, testing practices, and design systems at companies like Bunk and Pad Innovation. A founder who has raised funding and taken products from MVP to tens of thousands of users, he also advises startups on technology, fundraising and go-to-market strategy. Alex teaches and mentors too, having led curriculum and immersive web development classes at General Assembly to turn beginners into job-ready developers. He contributes to open-source front-end tooling—improving a popular react-native collapsible tab view—to sharpen UX and cross-platform reliability. Curious and network-driven, he blends entrepreneurial instinct with pragmatic engineering to help teams ship faster and scale sustainably.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive, Full Stack a Web Development, Web Development Immersive, Full Stack a Web Development at General AssemblyA Levels, A Levels at Hurtwood HouseGCSEs, GCSEs at Reading Blue Coat SchoolCommon Entrance, Common Entrance at St. George's Windsor Castle
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Github Skills (19)
react-native10
expo10
react10
tabstrip9
javascript9
windows9
tablist9
sinatra9
bottom-tabs9
typescript7
typescript-types7
typescripts7
datetime-format6
ruby-on-rails6
compiler-construction6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
PedroBern/react-native-collapsible-tab-view
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
A cross-platform Collapsible Tab View component for React Native
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 18 PRs in 28 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the `react-native-collapsible-tab-view` component. They fixed bugs related to the tab bar's height and visibility, particularly when no header was present, and ensured correct tab label ordering. The user also refactored code to use `Array.from()` and added an example with a centered list, enhancing the component's functionality and usability.
view-componentreactcollapsiblereact-nativecollapsible-tab
alexpchin/fontdownloader
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:110 commits in 2 months
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