Ellis Tsung is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience, currently building products at Oculus VR in San Francisco. He combines front-end expertise with practical systems-level fixes, evidenced by contributions to the popular uBlock Origin Safari port where he improved popup UI, crash handling, legacy support, and build tooling. Comfortable shipping client-side features and debugging tricky cross-version compatibility issues, he brings a pragmatic approach to maintaining and modernizing browser extensions and consumer software. A UVA graduate and alumnus of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Ellis pairs strong foundational training with a track record of shipping reliable, user-facing improvements in high-impact projects.
11 years of coding experience
High School, High School at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of Virginia
uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium, Firefox, and Safari. Fast and lean.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:18 releases, 104 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ellis primarily contributed to the user interface of the uBlock Origin extension for Safari. They implemented and modified popup layout fixes, updated vAPI messaging for client-side interactions, and resolved handling issues related to popup data. They also introduced fixes for client crashes and improved support for legacy Safari versions by addressing extension assets and polyfills. Their work also included updating the build scripts.
Contributions:84 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
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