Jimmy Jia
Lead Member Of Technical Staff at Tableau
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJimmy Jia is a Lead Member of Technical Staff at Tableau with 11 years of experience building data-focused web and desktop tooling, including key contributions to Tableau Prep Builder, Prep Conductor, Data Catalog, and web editing. A Computer Engineering graduate from UIUC, he blends full-stack web development skills with deep product experience in data connectors—having improved the open-source Tableau Web Data Connector simulator to full test coverage and handled tricky auth and join simulation logic. Based in Chicago, Jimmy leads engineering work on Tableau Prep and is known for refactoring legacy flows into more maintainable, testable components. He combines a pragmatic engineering mindset with a long-standing interest in pushing the envelope of web programming and data integration.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Lincoln High SchoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese
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Github Skills (3)
component-development10
react10
javascript10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tableau/webdataconnector
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Bring the data you care about into Tableau
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 7 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jimmy contributed to the simulator component of the web data connector project. They addressed a bug related to column mismatches and added handling for the `abortForAuth` event in the simulator. They also refactored the `startAuthPhase` and `startInteractivePhase` functions and added the standard connections to the simulator. Furthermore, the user made modifications to components of the project, including the `JoinViz` and `StandardConnections` components.
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jimmy-jia/LoL-Match-Data-WDC
Jun 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 years 8 months
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