Jimmy Wong
Senior Software Engineer at Beamery
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Wong is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 19 years building web and platform products across companies like Beamery, Checkout.com, Gousto and Cloudflare. He is a polyglot engineer comfortable across Python, JavaScript and Java who blends front-end component work with backend and platform reliability improvements. Jimmy is active in the Emacs and open-source ecosystem—contributing test infrastructure, theming, LSP improvements and UI components to well-known projects such as Emacs, use-package and Cloudflare's cf-ui—showing a strong emphasis on test automation and code quality. His background includes co-founding a startup and teaching, which complement a product-minded approach to engineering and mentoring. Notably, his contributions often focus on improving developer experience and robustness (test suites, editor tooling and iconography) rather than just shipping features.
19 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
General AssemblyGrad Cert, Computer Science, Grad Cert, Computer Science at Tufts UniversityBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Boston University
Github Skills (36)
json10
javascript10
event-handling10
testing10
component-development10
code-completion10
language-server-protocol10
ui-design10
emacs-lisp10
uid10
dom-manipulation10
prop10
front-end-development10
emacs10
backbonejs10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
domtronn/all-the-icons.el
May 2017 - Oct 2022
A utility package to collect various Icon Fonts and propertize them within Emacs.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 153 commits, 143 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jimmy primarily contributed to the `all-the-icons.el` Emacs package, enhancing its functionality and expanding its support for various modes and file types. They added support for new modes such as `js-jsx-mode` and `jsonian-mode`, and incorporated icons for new file types, as well as configuration files. The user also addressed bug fixes and performed code cleanup tasks, including refactoring and merging changes from the master branch, and version updates.
collecticon-fontsfontsiconemacs
cloudflare/cf-ui
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
:gem: Cloudflare UI Framework
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:90 commits, 88 PRs, 151 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jimmy primarily contributed to the Cloudflare UI Framework, focusing on component updates and bug fixes. Their work involved modifying existing React components like `DropdownLink`, `CopyableTextarea`, `Link`, and `Tabs`, often addressing issues reported in the repository. They also converted class properties to ES6 in several example components to improve readability and maintainability, demonstrating a focus on code quality.
cloudflarecloudflare-workersgemui-framework
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