Candy Tsai
Senior Software Engineer at Automattic
Taiwan
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Top SchoolCandy Tsai is a versatile software engineer and lecturer with 10 years of experience building full-stack web products, from 0-to-1 prototypes to large-scale platforms. She combines front-end craftsmanship (React, TypeScript, Vue) with back-end and infrastructure expertise (Go, Python, Kubernetes, on-prem deployments), and has shipped user-facing features at scale for WordPress.com as a Senior Engineer at Automattic. Her background spans AI-enabled healthcare tooling and nationwide chatbots used by Taiwan’s CDC, evidencing both product-minded design and mission-driven impact. As an educator at National Taiwan University she turns practical industry experience into hands-on courses on AI programming and content modeling. Active in open source, she has contributed front-end improvements to high-profile projects like Automattic/wp-calypso, showing a knack for UX details and cross-team delivery. Notably, her training in biomedical electronics and dual bachelor’s in biotechnology and marketing give her a rare blend of technical, domain, and communication skills.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, Master’s Degree, Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics at National Taiwan UniversityBachelor's degree, Marketing, Bachelor's degree, Marketing at National Chung Hsing University
English, Indonesian, Chinese, German, Japanese
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Github Skills (14)
wordpress10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
react10
nodejs9
s68
redux8
css7
html7
google-slides6
dialogflow-es6
http-post6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:530 reviews, 41 commits, 469 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Candy primarily contributes to the front-end development of the WordPress.com platform, as evidenced by the modifications in React, TypeScript, and JavaScript files. They implemented new features, such as category descriptions for the plugin marketplace and an empty page for plans. The user also addressed UI elements, updated button copies, and made modifications to the plans and marketplace section of the platform. They have integrated new features for the statistics page.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
candy02058912/readindo
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
Learn Indonesian with ReadIndo!
Contributions:20 commits, 6 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 3 months
indonesian
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