Jia Chong
Senior Frontend Engineer at Shopee
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolJia Chong is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 10 years’ experience crafting user-facing web applications and internal developer tools, currently building at Shopee in Singapore. He specializes in React, TypeScript, Redux and performance optimization—having reduced critical page speed index times on high-traffic Shopee pages—and brings a strong eye for UI/UX informed by self-driven design analysis and photography. Trained in computer science at NUS, he pairs traditional CS problem-solving with practical front-end architecture knowledge and a habit of reverse-engineering interfaces to learn how frameworks shape UX. His background includes fintech and enterprise web work at Crédit Agricole CIB and a history of mentoring as a teaching assistant for HCI, highlighting his emphasis on human-centered design. Colleagues know him as a detail-oriented engineer who obsessively documents what makes good interfaces feel intuitive, and who is focused on cross-browser and cross-platform accessibility.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science), Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science), Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
command-line-interface10
javascript9
markdown9
dsa-algorithm9
nodejs9
appwrite8
react6
accessibility6
react-components5
ui-components4
css4
hey4
programming-tools4
web-development3
experiences3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
heyjiawei/module-bundler
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:57 commits, 33 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
heyjiawei/learnInPublic
Jul 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:123 commits, 76 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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