Joanna Ong
Senior Front-end Developer at The FWA
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJoanna Ong is a Senior Front-end Developer with 13 years of experience crafting award-winning, interaction-rich web experiences for agencies, product teams, and nonprofits from Old Toronto. She specializes in modern front-end ecosystems—React/Next, Vue/Nuxt, Angular—and builds scalable, component-driven UIs, headless CMS integrations, and custom WordPress themes while handling deployments, DNS, and go-live processes. Joanna brings production-grade engineering from roles at Autodesk and Sysomos to freelance and studio work, balancing technical leadership with design-minded execution. An active contributor to developer-facing projects, she improved UX and docs for the web3.storage repository—showing an attention to detail that spans visual polish to developer experience. As a jury member for FWA and a co-founder of the youth publishing nonprofit INKspire, she combines creative recognition with community-oriented impact.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Post-grad, Interactive Multimedia, Post-grad, Interactive Multimedia at Sheridan CollegeBSc, Life Sciences, BSc, Life Sciences at McMaster University
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
nextjs10
react10
html9
css9
documentation8
ui-design7
accessibility7
ipfs7
filecoin7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
web3-storage/web3.storage
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
DEPRECATED ⁂ The simple file storage service for IPFS & Filecoin
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:167 commits, 28 PRs, 231 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Joanna primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the web3-storage repository, which appears to be a file storage service. Their contributions involved fixing website 404 errors, updating the default sort order, and re-platforming the documentation to Nextra. They also implemented a cloudflare image component, refactored accordion content, and addressed various JavaScript errors, demonstrating a focus on improving the user interface and the overall developer experience.
ipfsfilestoragefilecoinp2pfile-storage
joannaong/gangnam-style
Apr 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 11 months
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