Kang Tay
Developer at Shopify
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolKang Tay is an experienced full-stack developer with 11 years of building maintainable, team-focused software, currently driving engineering efforts at Shopify from Singapore. He blends pragmatic Rails and JavaScript/TypeScript expertise with a strong emphasis on sustainable delivery and developer productivity, having extracted shared RubyGems and built internal dashboards that surface project health. An active contributor to Shopify's quilt repository, he improved locale fallback and address data handling—showing attention to both backend data structures and frontend formatting nuances. Kang also brings teaching and community-building experience, having mentored bootcamp students and run knowledge-sharing sessions and meetups to align cross-functional teams. Colleagues know him as adventurous and frank, with a knack for turning repetitive work into reusable tools so teams can focus on delivering value.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems Technology and Design, Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Information Systems Technology and Design, Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
wpgraphql9
wordpress-graphql9
javascript9
graphql9
unit-testing8
testing5
react4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/quilt
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
[⚠️ Deprecated] A loosely related set of packages for JavaScript/TypeScript projects at Shopify
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 10 PRs, 58 pushes in 7 days
Contributions summary:Kang primarily contributed to the address-related packages within the repository. Their work included implementing fallback mechanisms for unsupported locales, updating data structures related to country information, and adding mock data. The user also refactored code to extract and update error types, improving the clarity and maintainability of the codebase. This indicates a focus on both the backend data structure and the frontend address formatting logic.
react-modaljavascriptshopify-apijavascript-typescriptcjs
rubysg/meetups
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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