Janice Shiu
Software Engineer at GoCardless
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJanice Shiu is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience building revenue-critical systems in fintech and subscription businesses, currently driving billing and revenue initiatives at GoCardless. She has shipped tax, payments, and multi-currency features at scale across Stripe and Mindvalley using Ruby, Java, and SQL, and has repeatedly delivered measurable business impact such as a 22% revenue lift from a self-refund project. Janice combines product-facing engineering with stakeholder coordination, regularly liaising with finance and executive teams to align cross-functional projects. An active open-source contributor, she’s worked on ReSpec and other web-spec tools, improving front-end compatibility and tooling used by standards writers. Beyond code, she organises community events (co-organiser of BangBangCon West) and contributes to workplace inclusion efforts through GoCardless’ BEAM ERG communications. Her background in chemistry and rigorous academic record reflect a methodical, research-minded approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry, English Literature, GPA: 3.93/4.00. Magna cum Laude (with high honor). Elected to Phi Beta Kappa., Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry, English Literature, GPA: 3.93/4.00. Magna cum Laude (with high honor). Elected to Phi Beta Kappa. at Mount Holyoke CollegeProblem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures, Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures at Bradfield School of Computer Science
English, Malay
Github Skills (7)
css10
javascript10
respec10
web-standards10
ui-design9
html9
fest5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
speced/respec
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
A tool for creating technical documents and web standards
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 10 PRs, 71 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Janice contributed primarily to the front-end aspects of the `speced/respec` repository, focusing on improving the user interface and ensuring correct display of the documentation. Their work included fixing browser compatibility issues in the CSS for assets, enhancing the UI by marking exported and unused definitions within the generated definition lists, and standardizing the document title based on the presence and content of the `<h1 id="title">` element. The user also added configuration options to include levels in the title and short names.
pre-processorw3c-specificationrespecw3cjavascript
janiceshiu/poem_complete
Jun 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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