Chi-hsuan Huang
Senior Javascript Engineer at Automattic
New Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolChi-hsuan Huang is a Senior JavaScript Engineer with 12 years of experience building web, ML, and cloud-native systems, and over six years working remotely. Currently at Automattic, he led the WooCommerce TypeScript migration and simplified onboarding flows while improving i18n across the platform, and has made notable front-end contributions to widely used projects like wp-calypso and WooCommerce Admin. He combines back-end PHP and database experience with front-end React/TypeScript expertise, and earlier roles include ML engineering at Rakuten where he reduced memory usage by 70% and built a crowdsourced labeling tool. A co-creator and organizer of TaiwanStat (millions of pageviews) and author of a 16k-user Chrome extension, he brings a strong open-source and community orientation to product-driven engineering. Academically strong with a CS MS and BS from National Cheng Kung University (near-perfect GPAs), he pairs rigorous technical foundations with hands-on delivery at scale.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, GPA 3.91, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, GPA 3.91 at National Cheng Kung University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (19)
woocommerce10
javascript10
wordpress10
php10
front-end-development10
react10
database-api9
analytics9
redux9
s69
data-manipulation9
css9
databases9
nodejs9
database9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1634 reviews, 573 commits, 1313 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Chi-hsuan focused on back-end development, primarily within the PHP environment of the WooCommerce platform. Their contributions included debugging and fixing functionality, and implementing new code. Furthermore, the user demonstrated a strong understanding of PHP, array handling, and database interaction within a WordPress environment.
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woocommerce/woocommerce-admin
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
(Deprecated) This plugin has been merged to woocommerce/woocommerce
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:156 reviews, 115 commits, 151 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chi-hsuan primarily contributed to the front-end development of the WooCommerce Admin plugin, specifically focusing on the profile wizard. They worked on implementing new UI components, adding features to the business details section, and improving the user experience within the onboarding flow. The user also addressed reported bugs in the analytics reports by fixing the variations and order report table and the incorrect date options. They also made changes to support internationalization within the report chart.
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