Boyd Ching
Frontend Engineer at Zeals Co., Ltd.
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolBoyd Ching is a Frontend Engineer based in Tokyo with 10 years of experience building production web applications using React, Vue, and TypeScript. He has taken projects from POC to MVP at Zeals and implemented full-stack features, CI/CD and microservice deployments at A.I. Squared, combining frontend craftsmanship with practical backend and DevOps know-how. An active contributor to the Oppia open-source learning platform, he has improved accessibility and UX by adding alt tags, skip-navigation, and polishing progress indicators. Comfortable in both English and Japanese client settings, he pairs hands-on coding and automated e2e testing with user-focused design; and when not fixing bugs he’s likely plotting his next gyoza run.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
International Student Exchange, Japanese Studies, Computer Science, International Student Exchange, Japanese Studies, Computer Science at Hokkaido University of EducationBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Alaska Anchorage
English, Japanese, Korean
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Github Skills (15)
accessibility10
uid10
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
angularjs10
typescript-types10
javascript9
html9
css8
bot-framework6
microsoft-teams6
azure6
webchat6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
oppia/oppia
Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
A free, online learning platform to make quality education accessible for all.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 1 branch in 9 months
Contributions summary:Boyd primarily focused on improving the user interface and accessibility of the Oppia platform. Their contributions included adding alt tags to images for accessibility, implementing a skip navigation link, and refining the display of progress dots. The user also made code changes related to renaming services, specifically modifying the naming conventions of services to conform to a more standardized style. These changes included the modification of various components within the exploration editor, thereby enhancing the overall user experience.
appenginereactpythonlearning-platformquality-education
bching/oppia
Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:33 pushes, 9 branches in 10 months
javascriptinteractive-lessons
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