Calvin Tam
Full Stack Developer at Palantir Technologies
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCalvin Tam is a Full Stack Developer at Palantir with 11 years of engineering experience blending front-end React/React Native work, data engineering, and machine learning. He has driven measurable impact at Amazon—shipping device support and accessibility improvements for Halo, modernizing React Navigation to save hundreds of developer hours, and pruning petabytes of storage to cut costs. Comfortable across serverless backends, Spark pipelines, and neural NLP models, he also contributes to open-source front-end projects like the popular Plyr video player, where he’s improved YouTube embed behavior and usability. A UC San Diego Data Science graduate, Calvin pairs production-grade engineering with a research background in NLP and a knack for turning data into user-facing features that scale.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Irvington High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (22)
date-formatting10
flutter10
datetime10
javascript10
flutter-apps10
testing10
internationalization10
date-format10
datetimes10
youtube10
flutter-packages10
localization10
dates10
flutter-game10
dart10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
sampotts/plyr
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
A simple HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo player
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 66 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Calvin primarily focused on improving the functionality and user experience of the Plyr video player, specifically addressing issues related to YouTube integration. Their contributions include fixing bugs that prevented proper event handling and seeking in YouTube embeds. They also made changes to disable keyboard controls and standardize syntax, indicating a focus on consistency and usability. Several commits involved modifications to the JavaScript code, specifically the `src/js/plyr.js` file, showcasing their front-end development skills.
html5-audiohtml5-videovimeo-playerjavascriptyoutube
calvintam236/docker_xmrig-amd
Oct 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:34 commits, 43 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 10 months
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