Calvin Lai
Software Development Engineer at FeedMob
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCalvin Lai is a seasoned Software Development Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building scalable full-stack systems across e-commerce, search, delivery logistics, and media. He has a proven track record of shipping products from zero to market—leading launches that drove app store success, high ratings, and large-scale user engagement. At companies from startups he co-founded to Amazon Ads, he blends frontend UI craftsmanship with robust API and infrastructure design, often focusing on getting interactions precisely right. He’s skilled at building developer tooling, distributed backends, and data pipelines capable of processing millions of events daily. Outside of work he maintains a home lab for hardware and networking tinkering, which feeds into a practical, systems-oriented approach to engineering. Based in New York, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a designer’s attention to detail and a penchant for mentoring engineering teams.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los AngelesSkyline Senior High
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
8,735reputation
2.7mreached
115answers
45questions
css
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php
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html-table
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jquery
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ajax
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html
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Github Skills (200)
middleware10
api10
reducer10
nodejs10
mongodb10
zsh10
php10
react-redux10
bash10
ruby10
cart10
currency10
spree10
marketplace10
ecommerce10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
combine/universal-react-redux
Jan 2016 - Apr 2018
🧐 A sensible universal starter kit for React + Redux
Contributions:30 releases, 178 commits, 43 PRs in 2 years 2 months
reactsensibleboilerplatereact-reduxredux
combine/objection-auth
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 26 commits, 14 pushes in 4 months
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