Helen Lu
Freelance Illustrator & Designer
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHelen Lu is a multidisciplinary designer and software-savvy illustrator who blends eight years of freelance visual art with hands-on computer science experience from the University of Toronto. She has shipped UI and handwriting-to-text features for PhenoPad, an AI-driven clinical note-taking app, working across C#/XAML, React, and Azure integrations while conducting real-world usability tests in hospital settings. As a freelancer she designs game characters and graphics for clients across North America and Asia, pairing creative direction with pragmatic product thinking. Her background in e-commerce operations and customer support informs a user-centered approach to design and documentation, and she often bridges art and engineering to deliver polished, production-ready assets.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science with high distinction, Computer Science, 3.5, Honours Bachelor of Science with high distinction, Computer Science, 3.5 at University of Toronto
Github Skills (6)
mercurial8
git-mirror8
gecko8
mozilla8
firefox7
git5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
syarotta1997/369a4
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:415 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
syarotta1997/343a2
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:293 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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