Charles Lee
Senior Frontend Developer at Shopify
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Lee is a Senior Frontend Developer based in Sydney with 11 years’ experience building polished, user-focused web interfaces at companies including Shopify and Atlassian. He blends a design background with deep front-end engineering—shipping reusable UI hooks and playroom-driven component work for Shopify Polaris and improving UX-critical components like react-select. Comfortable full‑stack, he’s contributed to major open-source projects such as KeystoneJS, where he refactored complex client-side state, query handling and tests to improve performance and data consistency. Known for pragmatic, empathetic engineering—aptly summarized by his GitHub motto “code is hard, be kind to yourself”—he pairs craftsmanship with team coaching from prior leadership roles.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyUNSW Sydney
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (28)
cms10
redux-saga10
javascript10
testing10
component-development10
typescript10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
ui-design10
redux10
mdx10
system10
uid10
component-library10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JedWatson/react-select
Sep 2017 - May 2021
The Select Component for React.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 5 reviews, 467 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily contributed to the React-Select component, focusing on feature enhancements and bug fixes related to the UI. Their commits included the addition of an autoFocus prop with warning logic, the creation of tests, the modification of the component to support multi-value keyboard interactions, and styling adjustments. These changes improved the component's functionality and user experience. Additionally, the user made some updates to examples.
reactreact-jsmulti-selectreact-selectreactjs
keystonejs/keystone
Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
The superpowered headless CMS for Node.js — built with GraphQL and React
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:327 reviews, 157 commits, 261 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily contributed to the development of the KeystoneJS documentation site. Their work focused on implementing and styling UI components, adding syntax highlighting to MDX code examples, and integrating a signup form with a newsletter service. The user also contributed to refactoring the navigation, adding heading anchors, and improving the overall look and feel of the documentation.
cmscms-frameworkreactnode-jsnodejs
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