Liang Huang
Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolLiang Huang is a pragmatic software developer with eight years of experience building and testing full-stack applications using JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, and .NET across Linux and Windows environments. He delivers front-end interfaces with Angular and React, back-end services with Spring Boot and Node.js, and integrates systems using REST and relational databases like Oracle and SQL Server. Comfortable in Agile teams, he applies solid OO design, design patterns, and unit testing (Mocha/Jasmine/JUnit) to produce maintainable, production-ready code. Liang contributes to notable open-source work on the Eclipse Theia IDE, improving task management, terminal focus behavior, and task configuration schemas—demonstrating attention to developer experience and tooling. He pairs strong analytical troubleshooting with practical DevOps skills (Perforce/Git, Maven, npm/yarn, shell scripting, VMWare), and is open to roles in Montreal or Ottawa. With an MS from the University of Alberta, he brings both academic rigor and hands-on delivery to software projects.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at University of Alberta
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-theia/theia
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Eclipse Theia is a cloud & desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 302 PRs, 310 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Liang primarily focused on enhancing the task-related functionalities within the Theia IDE framework. Their contributions involved aligning the display of tasks across various quick open items, refining the task configuration schema to include properties like `presentation.panel`, `presentation.showReuseMessage`, and `presentation.clear`, and ensuring the correct focus behavior for terminals associated with tasks. They also addressed bugs related to the "applyTo" property in task problem matchers and user-defined labels for detected tasks, demonstrating a strong understanding of the task management system. Furthermore, the user upgraded the NPM extension version and added a detail property to the task config schema.
cloud-ideide-frameworkelectrontheiajavascript
elaihau/theia
Mar 2018 - Jun 2020
Theia is a cloud & desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript.
Contributions:6 PRs, 745 pushes, 206 branches in 2 years 3 months
ide-frameworktheiajavascriptnodejside
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