Karl Jiang
Ceramic Artist at Self-employed
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKarl Jiang is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable video and design-platform infrastructure, now based in San Francisco and pursuing work as a self-employed ceramic artist. At Figma he was an early backend hire who architected the REST API, contributed to the initial billing system, and maintained foundational services and tooling that support the product. Before that he led critical video-scaling work at Twitch—transitioning RTMP to HLS—and later managed the VOD engineering team responsible for chat replay, resume watching, rebroadcast, and uploads. Equally comfortable shipping front-end features (contributions to a Figma-to-React demo) and deep backend systems, he combines product-focused engineering with systems-level reliability. His unique blend of large-scale distributed systems experience and a current creative practice in ceramics gives him a practical, design-minded perspective on building durable, user-facing platforms.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Miami
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Github Skills (6)
javascript10
react10
figma9
html9
css9
svg8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
figma/figma-api-demo
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Karl primarily focused on developing the front-end components of a Figma-to-React demo. They implemented features for a clock display, incorporating time and am/pm indicators. The user also worked on a list container component, including SVG elements. Furthermore, they updated images within the project and made minor tweaks to existing components and styling.
caeleel/twitch-dvr
Aug 2020 - Jul 2022
A chrome extension to enable DVR on Twitch streams.
Contributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 1 PR in 2 years
streamsdvrchrometwitchstream
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