Lefan Tan
Software Engineer at Motion
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLefan Tan is a full‑stack software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building product features at Motion and previously leading frontend efforts at Ownit. He specializes in modern front-end stacks (React + TypeScript, Astro, Next.js) and pairs that with back-end Node/Express and mobile work in React Native, plus hobbyist Unity/C# projects. Lefan has shipped SEO- and performance-focused experiences—one-click checkout and AI-powered blog tooling—while collaborating closely with founders and designers to turn product vision into polished UI/UX. He brings a pragmatic testing mindset (Vitest, Playwright) and a knack for frontend caching strategies that noticeably improve load and responsiveness. Based in Edmonton, he combines day-to-day engineering with a continual curiosity for new front-end techniques and interactive systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computing Science, Software Practice, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computing Science, Software Practice at University of Alberta
Github Skills (128)
architecture10
browser10
server10
mutable9
piano9
hybrid9
guitar9
bing-maps9
mongodb9
database8
theory8
javascript8
proxy8
react8
widgets8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
LefanTan/big2
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:79 commits, 79 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
LefanTan/basictheory
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
Website that contains basic guitar theory
Contributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 204 commits in 1 year 1 month
pianotheoryguitar
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