Joseph Chiang
Senior Frontend Developer at Ignition
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJoseph Chiang is a Senior Frontend Developer based in Sydney with 15 years of experience building robust, user-focused web and kiosk applications. Currently leading frontend at Ignition, he shapes technical direction, mentors an eight-person team, and introduced GraphQL Subscriptions and a custom CKEditor5 plugin to improve editing workflows. His background spans product-driven roles at Fujifilm, Stackla, and Yahoo!, where he championed migrations to modern architectures, reusable UI systems, and performance optimizations. Known for wearing multiple hats—hiring, training, technical writing, and shipping quirky hacks like a Chrome extension award winner—he blends hands-on TypeScript/React expertise with practical team and process improvements. He also has a less obvious strength in rapidly turning wireframes into production prototypes and operationalizing front-end standards across organizations.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Foreign Language and Literature, BA, Foreign Language and Literature at Tunghai University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (178)
roster10
emoji10
image-viewer10
html-editor10
ckeditor10
wysiwyg10
javascript10
twitter10
editorjs10
rich-text10
masonry10
draft-js10
modular-architecture10
text-editing10
editing10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
josephj/f2e-styleguide
Jan 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
josephj/dataurize
Dec 2010 - Feb 2013
Contributions:44 commits in 2 years 2 months
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