Kenny Liau
Senior Software Engineer at Vistar Media
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenny Liau is a Senior Software Engineer with over 8.5 years of professional full-stack experience and a 13-year career arc focused on frontend engineering and web-based workflow tools for digital out-of-home advertising. He has shipped core product features, modernized legacy frontends, and built performant export and automation services that cut processing times dramatically while working across agile teams and global time zones. Beyond corporate roles at Vistar Media, Citi, and JPMorgan Chase, he paused to run a successful e-commerce venture—becoming a top worldwide sneaker seller and generating $2M in annual revenue—where he also built scripts and a Chrome extension to streamline operations. Kenny contributes to the developer community as an instructor/mentor for newcomers and brings practical experience in QA, headless browser testing, and integrating mapping and ad-serving platforms. Comfortable toggling between hands-on coding and vendor negotiations, he blends product-minded engineering with entrepreneurial grit and a curiosity for languages and cultures that informs international collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Rutgers University
English, Chinese, Chinese, hokkien, Bahasa Melayu
Github Skills (36)
javascript-tools10
spreadsheet10
grids10
excel10
grid10
vue-table9
xlsx9
datatable9
data-management9
handsontable9
data-import9
datagrid9
angular-table9
powerpoint9
php-library8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kenliau/Zooey
Feb 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:192 commits in 3 months
kenliau/arc-reactor
Oct 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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