Howard Chiam
Frontend Developer at Compusense Inc.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolHoward Chiam is a frontend developer with a decade of experience building usable, accessible web tools from Calgary, Alberta. He currently crafts interfaces at Compusense and has contributed meaningful UX-enhancing plugins and toolbar improvements to the well-known GoogleChromeLabs/ProjectVisBug, improving designers’ live-editing and debugging workflows. With a background spanning embedded app internships, rehab game development, and software toolsets at ATS Automation, he blends strong engineering fundamentals with a focus on practical user-facing solutions. Howard pursues continuous learning—completing courses in web accessibility, CSS for JS developers, and algorithms—and often explores side projects and coding challenges to sharpen both front-end craft and problem-solving depth.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Full Stack Web Development Certification at Free Code CampWeb Accessibility (Intro Course), Web Accessibility (Intro Course) at UdacityComputer Science Algorithms and Data Structures, Computer Science Algorithms and Data Structures at AlgoExpertBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) at McMaster UniversityInstructor-Facilitated Online Learning - Certificate of Completion, Instructor-Facilitated Online Learning - Certificate of Completion at Idea Exchange | Gale CoursesMaster's Degree, Master's Degree at University of TorontoWeb Developer Bootcamp, Web Developer Bootcamp at UdemyCSS for JavaScript Developers, CSS for JavaScript Developers at CSS for JavaScript Developers - Josh W Comeau's Course PlatformMachine Learning, Machine Learning at Coursera Machine Learning by Stanford University(Self-Directed Learning)
Chinese, French, french - québec (comfortable understanding computer error messages), mandarin chinese (basic conversation), other languages (to expand mind and empathy), sparrow (accent only good enough to confuse the birds)
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Github Skills (14)
debugging10
debug10
javascript10
front-end-development10
c-extension9
ui-design9
extension-methods9
extension-functions9
css8
html8
sql-server6
typescripts3
typescript3
typescript-types3
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleChromeLabs/ProjectVisBug
Jun 2021 - Dec 2021
FireBug for designers › Edit any webpage, in any state https://a.nerdy.dev/gimme-visbug
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 7 commits, 10 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Howard primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project, focusing on enhancements to the VisBug tool. Their work involved adding descriptions for plugins, creating a new plugin for detecting overflow elements, and implementing a plugin for looping through screen widths. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the toolbar's drag-and-drop functionality. These changes aimed to improve the user interface and extend the functionality of the debugging tool.
webpagedebugging-toolreactdevjavascript
hchiam/canvas-converse
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
More easily "converse" with canvas API.
Contributions:17 releases, 17 reviews, 27 PRs in 3 months
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