Kai-wen Hsiung
Senior Software Engineer at Carousell Group
Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolKai-wen Hsiung is a Senior Software Engineer based in Taipei with 11 years of experience specializing in high-performance front-end systems and scalable web products. He has led cross-functional initiatives at Carousell that materially improved conversion and onboarding—driving AI-enabled listing flows that cut listing time by ~20–30% and launching a unified checkout that increased multi-item orders and buyer engagement. Prior roles include rebuilding high-traffic news and audio platforms with SSR and Nuxt.js to improve Core Web Vitals and create new revenue streams, demonstrating a strong grounding in performance, SEO, and product-driven engineering. He mentors engineers and interns, authors RFCs and UX refinements, and has a record of reducing technical debt (8,000+ lines removed) while enabling larger platform goals like SSR and merchant partnerships. A Master’s graduate in Computer Science from National Chengchi University, he pairs hands-on implementation with strategic thinking—often surfacing atypical solutions such as image-inferred AI autofill to accelerate user workflows.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at National Chengchi University
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Github Skills (47)
javascript10
react-native10
console10
testing10
windows10
linux10
webpack10
vue10
android10
command-line10
svelte10
shell10
react10
documentation10
angular10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kwhsiung/plate-vue
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
kwhsiung/news-projects
Jan 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:160 pushes, 116 branches in 1 year 5 months
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