Kahwee Teng
Staff Software Engineer at Uber
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKahwee Teng is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 14 years in software and a decade focused heavily on frontend JavaScript and data-platform UIs. At Uber he led UI work for lineage, diagnostics, observability and cost-efficiency efforts, shaping data visualization experiences used at scale. He’s an experienced manager and mentor who has grown and led frontend teams, migrated workflows (SVN→git), and championed testing and developer productivity across multiple companies. Kahwee contributes to open-source UI tooling—tuning React component behavior in the widely used baseweb library—reflecting a pragmatic focus on component quality and examples. His background spans startups to large enterprises, from building high-throughput SMS-to-Twitter systems to HTML5 video ad platforms, showing an ability to move between product, platform and infrastructure. He pairs technical depth in frontend engineering with operational instincts and an eye for developer experience.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Harvard Business School Executive EducationScience Computing and Information Systems (Honours 2:1), Science Computing and Information Systems (Honours 2:1) at Goldsmiths, University of LondonDiploma Biotechnology (Bioinformatics), Diploma Biotechnology (Bioinformatics) at Singapore Polytechnic
English, Chinese, Japanese
Stackoverflow
13,898reputation
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34answers
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
react-components10
system-design10
react-component10
system10
component-library10
react10
jes9
styled-components9
jtest9
jestjs9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
activerecord6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
uber/baseweb
Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
A React Component library implementing the Base design language
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 12 PRs, 10 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kahwee primarily contributed to the user interface of the `baseweb` component library. They fixed a spelling error, added the `autoHideDuration` feature to the `ToasterContainer` component. The user also addressed a table example and updated the radio button override example. These changes demonstrate a focus on component functionality and example code updates within the library.
react-componentreactlanguage-designreact-component-librarydesign-system
kahwee/vpaid-ad-inspector
Nov 2015 - Oct 2017
In-unit to inspect VPAID ad
Contributions:40 commits, 114 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 10 months
vpaidinspectandroidunit
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