Ben Zhu
Senior Frontend Engineer at Canva
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Zhu is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 11 years of full-stack experience, now based in Australia and currently building design tooling at Canva. He has deep React expertise (daily use) and a practical background in Vue, PHP/MySQL, Elasticsearch and AWS SysOps, blending frontend polish with backend and ops reliability. At Automattic he contributed UX improvements and refactors to the high-profile wp-calypso codebase, adding promoted-posts features and migrating to React Query for more robust data handling. Ben pairs hands-on engineering with team leadership experience from AskNicely and has applied GenAI to product features in recent roles, showing a knack for pragmatic AI integrations. Off the keyboard he’s a curious problem-solver who enjoys camping and woodworking with a circular saw, hinting at a maker’s mindset that carries into his code.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Dalian University of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
wordpress10
uid10
javascript10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
react10
nodejs8
css8
html8
redux8
camp7
activecampaign7
manage7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 18 commits, 52 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on implementing and enhancing the user interface for the WordPress.com Calypso project. Their work includes adding a "Promote Post" feature to the My Home page, creating a dedicated "Promoted Posts" list page with tabs for posts and campaigns, and modifying campaign item UI. The user also made adjustments to navigation and UI elements, along with incorporating relevant styling. The user also refactored code to use ReactQuery and made improvements to error handling and wording across the promoted posts functionality.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
HongbinZhu/hongbinzhu.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:17 pushes in 5 years 6 months
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