Chris Ng
Staff Software Engineer at linkedin
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarChris Ng is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience building large-scale web and media systems, currently driving Google Workspace engineering after a multi-year tenure at LinkedIn. He led 0→1 initiatives like LinkedIn Audio, Live Replay, and a next-generation Semantic People Search, pairing product vision with cross-client execution and AI platforms that cut experimentation cycles from months to weeks. A pragmatic advocate for engineering quality, he standardized linting and automated formatting across 300+ engineers, saving thousands of developer hours and measurably improving satisfaction. Chris is a practiced public speaker and author on front-end performance and animation, and has a history of contributing testing and QA infrastructure to open-source projects such as linkedin/css-blocks. He combines deep front-end craftsmanship (Ember learning core alum) with systems thinking around observability, reliability, and developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
typescript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
testing10
css8
sass6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/css-blocks
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
High performance, maintainable stylesheets.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure and test suite for the `broccoli-css-blocks` plugin. Their work included initializing tests, adding test cases for specific functionalities such as CSS file output and transport object population, and fixing type-related linting issues. They also focused on ensuring the correct usage of types and interfaces within the testing framework, demonstrating a commitment to code quality.
stylesheetsasscssjavascriptstylesheets
chrisrng/chrisrng
Aug 2020 - May 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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