Joy Kuo
Senior Software Engineer at TotallyMoney
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoy Kuo is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with nine years’ experience building web and mobile products for startups and public-sector innovation programs. She blends full‑stack engineering, location-data expertise and agile delivery—having supported hundreds of Geovation community members and contributed backend enhancements to the popular Mapbox tippecanoe project to improve tile output and performance. At TotallyMoney she focuses on consumer finance apps that help users improve credit health, while her earlier roles span cloud Android work and research into FPGA-based sparse computations. A lifelong learner and empirical engineer, she pairs hands-on development with product-minded coaching and occasional virtual-CTO work for early-stage teams. Off-hours she runs a long‑standing music blog with over a million page views, revealing a creative streak that informs her user-centered approach to software.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Yuan-Ze UniversityMaster's degree Electronic and Computer Engineering, Master's degree Electronic and Computer Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and TechnologyMaster’s Degree Engineering with Management, Master’s Degree Engineering with Management at King's College London
English, German, Chinese, Mandarin
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Github Skills (21)
c-language10
vector-tiles10
cprogramming-language10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
command-line-interface9
geojson9
file-processing8
file-handling8
file-access8
fileio8
dart6
gitbash6
flutter6
android6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mapbox/tippecanoe
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Joy focused on implementing features related to tile generation and output. They added functionality to output raw protobuf tiles, modifying existing code to support this new option. Furthermore, the user refactored code, introduced a new utility function, and added options to specify the output directory and disable tile compression. These changes involved modifications to the core tile processing logic and related file handling operations.
collectionstopojsongeojson-featuresmvtmap-tiles
Geovation/flutter_sandbox
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
Experiments in flutter
Contributions:129 reviews, 72 PRs, 63 pushes in 6 months
flutterdart
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