Kuo Y
Frontend Engineer at Convertium
Irvine, California, Singapore
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolKuo Y is a Frontend Engineer with nine years of software experience and over four years focused on building resilient, component-driven web applications using TypeScript, React, and modern CSS methodologies. He has led large-scale frontend efforts—most recently architecting an atomic-design component library and a few-thousand-page marketing site at Convertium—while also delivering end-to-end solutions as a freelancer, from Django REST gateways to React migrations. At Deriv he solved tricky integration problems between React and canvas-based charting, implemented P2P chat via SendBird, and automated payment workflows, demonstrating a knack for bridging UI, backend, and operational concerns. His open-source contributions include pragmatic refactors to popular trading frontends (deriv-app and binary-static), improving popover components, dropdowns, and accessibility/positioning bugs. Comfortable owning projects across the stack, he pairs product-minded design decisions (Storybook/Figma workflows) with practical DevOps and deployment experience (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS). An underrated strength is his ability to translate complex UI/real-time requirements into maintainable components that reduce manual work and ramp up team productivity.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Informations Systems (Honours), Information Systems Engineering, 3.0 CGPA, Bachelor of Informations Systems (Honours), Information Systems Engineering, 3.0 CGPA at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)
Chinese, English, Malay, Japanese, Indonesian, chinese (teochew / hokkien)
Github Skills (11)
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
interface-design10
react10
ui-components10
props9
prop9
html9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
binary-com/binary-static
Dec 2018 - Jul 2019
Binary.com static content - staging release
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:532 commits, 96 PRs, 106 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kuo primarily updated and refactored the front-end components within the repository, specifically working on the user interface elements. Their contributions involved modifying existing code for a better user experience, like repositioning elements and improving the appearance of dropdowns and buttons. These updates included changes in the affiliate and introducing broker sections of the platform, along with modifications to trading platform functionalities by changing the code to the recent standard.
stagingstatic-site-generatorstatic-content
deriv-com/deriv-app
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:83 commits, 9 PRs, 10 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kuo primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `PopoverBubble` and `Popover` components within the deriv-app repository. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to positioning, adding icon and margin support, and refactoring code for better readability and maintainability. They also made changes to use the new popover in the `InputField` component and addressed display issues.
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