Irvin Chen
Technical Consulting at Mozilla Taiwan Community
New Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolIrvin Chen is a seasoned front-end engineer and technical consultant with 17 years of experience building high-traffic web products and SEO-optimized CMS platforms. He led front-end development and growth engineering at womany.net, driving site traffic to hundreds of millions annually through performance, SEO, and feature-rich campaign tooling. A longtime open-source and community leader, Irvin has volunteered as Mozilla Taiwan liaison and served two terms on the Mozilla Reps Council while contributing localization work to major projects like MDN and Mozilla Common Voice. He combines product thinking and hands-on coding—shipping everything from widget-style SPAs and in-house ad/retargeting systems to multi-language automation and DEI evaluation tooling. Based in New Taipei, Irvin uniquely blends grassroots community organizing with technical delivery, often coordinating cross-border volunteers and projects alongside his engineering work. He also has a track record in preserving and enabling minority languages by helping bring Formosan languages into Common Voice.
17 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Transportation Management, MBA, Transportation Management at 國立成功大學BBA, Transportation Management, BBA, Transportation Management at 國立交通大學
chinese, traditional, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
html10
localization10
translation10
documentation10
javascript9
xcode6
amp-html6
homebrew6
macos-mojave6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
common-voice/common-voice
Jun 2018 - May 2022
Common Voice is part of Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak.
Role in this project:
Localization Specialist
Localization SpecialistContributions:2 reviews, 37 commits, 24 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Irvin primarily contributed to the localization efforts of the Common Voice project, focusing on the Chinese (Taiwan) and Minnan (Taiwanese) languages. Their work involved updating and correcting existing translations within the Pontoon platform, specifically modifying message files. They also contributed to the addition of new accents for the Taiwanese (nan-tw) language, and made updates to reflect geographical differences.
internet-freedommachinesinitiativeopen-datavoice
mdn/translated-content
Mar 2021 - May 2022
The source repository of all translated content for MDN Web Docs
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:226 reviews, 23 commits, 699 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Irvin primarily contributes to the localization of MDN Web Docs, focusing on translating content into the zh-CN (Chinese Simplified) language. Their commits include the addition and modification of translated documentation files, specifically HTML files related to web APIs, JavaScript, and HTML fundamentals. Furthermore, the user removes inline styles and adjusts HTML tags within the translated content to ensure proper formatting and display.
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