Kevin Hu
Principal Software Engineer at Selina Finance | Certified B Corp™
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Hu is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, product-driven mobile applications, particularly in React Native. He’s led architecture migrations and performance work at scale—improving startup time by 60% on Shopee’s Search and driving core feature engagement for Olio’s 8M+ users—while also mentoring engineers across levels. Kevin pairs hands-on frontend skill (including contributions to the popular react-native-community upgrade-helper UI) with pragmatic automation testing and release upgrades to reduce regression overhead. Comfortable as a founding engineer or technical lead, he has shipped everything from location-based apps and Bluetooth-integrated wallet flows to a retro-style mobile game, showing both product curiosity and system-level thinking. Now based in the UK, he’s focused on roles that blend React Native performance, architecture, and user-facing product impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Fu Jen Catholic University
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
react-native10
react10
ui-design9
styled-components8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
react-native-community/upgrade-helper
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
⚛️ A web tool to support React Native developers in upgrading their apps.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 42 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin focused on enhancing the user interface of the React Native upgrade helper tool. Their contributions included modifying the DiffViewer component, adding a popover to indicate a completed file, and refactoring code for improved readability and maintainability. They also addressed a styling issue on Safari and made changes to the DiffHeader and DiffSection components, contributing to the overall user experience.
web-toolreactreact-nativeupgrade-toolrn-diff-purge
KevinHu2014/RN-IceSpeed
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:255 commits, 12 pushes in 10 months
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