Khoa Thai
Senior Frontend Developer at Simply Wall St
New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKhoa Thai is a senior frontend developer and engineering manager with nine years of experience building and scaling frontend teams and products across Australia and Vietnam. He has led front-end strategy at Employment Hero through hypergrowth and now drives feature delivery, performance and developer experience at Simply Wall St, improving core web vitals and shepherding a Sentry cleanup. Equally comfortable hands-on—maintaining open-source work like the react-tippy tooltip—and in people leadership, he blends practical CSS/JS craftsmanship with process improvements such as code review guidelines and measurable velocity. Known for breaking large frontend initiatives into bite-sized milestones, he focuses on balancing new features with technical health while fostering cross-team collaboration and a stronger engineering culture.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Software Engineering, Bachelor Software Engineering at VNUHCM - University of Science
vietnamese (native), English
Github Skills (4)
css10
javascript10
react10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tvkhoa/react-tippy
Apr 2017 - Aug 2020
A lightweight tooltip for React. Based on tippy.js and powered by Popper.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 73 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Khoa's contributions primarily involve updating and maintaining the CSS and Javascript code for the react-tippy library. They focused on modifying styles, especially the tooltip styles, including arrow sizes, animations, and applying the theme. In addition to styling, the user worked on adding new functionality such as support for enabling or disabling the tooltip, controlling the HTML to be used and the event listeners.
reacttooltipstooltiptypescriptpopper
tvkhoa/create-react-app
Jul 2017 - May 2019
Create React apps with no build configuration.
Contributions:55 commits, 12 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 10 months
react-appsbabelreacteslintbuild-configuration
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