Kai Zau
Technical Design Consultant at Independent
Taiwan
Summary
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RockstarKai Zau is a Technical Design Consultant with 13 years of hands-on experience helping startups and Fortune 500 companies launch products, boost retention, and optimize conversions across North America and Asia. A coder-designer generalist and former cofounder of Ultraworking, he blends product sensibility with pragmatic engineering to ship polished user experiences. He created the popular open-source Ruby gem FontCustom, contributing deep fixes across platforms (including Windows/Chrome rendering) and expanding CSS template capabilities. Kai has also improved front-end accessibility and mobile responsiveness for prominent community resources like the Front-End Handbook. Based in Taiwan, he pairs independent consulting with active open-source maintenance, often tackling subtle cross-platform and tooling edge cases that others overlook.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
css10
responsive-design10
templater10
template-engine10
optimisation10
html10
frontend10
optimization10
sc9
scs9
mdbook9
docbook8
textbook8
code-optimization8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
FontCustom/fontcustom
Jun 2013 - Feb 2015
Generate custom icon webfonts from the comfort of the command line.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:218 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Kai contributed primarily to the Font Custom project, focusing on bug fixes and implementing various improvements. Their work included making fontforge checking more robust, fixing deprecated syntax for the Listen gem, and resolving issues related to capital letters in font names. They also addressed a critical bug related to Windows/Chrome rendering and expanded the capabilities of the CSS templates.
webfontswoff2iconwoffcustom-icon
FrontendMasters/front-end-handbook-2019
Apr 2019 - Jan 2020
[Book] 2019 edition of our front-end development handbook
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 6 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kai primarily focused on improving the front-end experience of the handbook. Their commits addressed mobile responsiveness issues, fixing layout problems and optimizing the display on smaller screens. They made changes to CSS styles and HTML files, enhancing the user interface. The user also implemented image lazy loading and added inline comments to the code.
cssjavascriptweb-development-toolsfront-end-developmenthandbook
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