Lingfan Gao
Senior Software Engineer at Citadel Securities
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolLingfan Gao is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building maintainable, extensible backend systems and polished front-end interfaces from Vienna. With a strong Microsoft tenure focused on distributed services and Teams, Lingfan blends C#/.NET Core and cloud tooling with TypeScript and React to deliver production-grade webapps. He’s an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like Microsoft’s Fluent UI and Griffel, improving React components, documentation, and performance tooling. Comfortable across the stack, he brings practical experience shipping microservices, performance-conscious front-end features, and developer-facing tooling. Multicultural upbringing and varied internships underpin his adaptability and appetite for new languages, frameworks, and cross-cultural teams.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologySecondary School bacculaureate - Irish Leaving Certificate, Secondary School bacculaureate - Irish Leaving Certificate at st. columba's collegeDiplôme d'ingénieur (Master's degree) Computer Science, Diplôme d'ingénieur (Master's degree) Computer Science at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
English, French, Chinese, German
Github Skills (16)
css-in-js10
uid10
css10
typescript10
typescripts10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
component-design10
react10
typescript-types10
refactor9
storybook9
javascript9
refactoring9
accessibility9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fluentui
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Fluent UI web represents a collection of utilities, React components, and web components for building web applications.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5810 reviews, 615 commits, 1983 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lingfan primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Fluent UI web framework, focusing on React component implementations and related features. They fixed bugs, refactored existing components (like the `Link` and `Badge` components), and implemented new features such as support for inline prop and improved focus management. Their contributions also extended to storybook documentation and ensuring consistent rendering of components through updates.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
microsoft/griffel
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
CSS-in-JS with ahead-of-time compilation ⚡️
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:468 reviews, 12 commits, 52 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Lingfan primarily contributed to the front-end development of the "griffel" project, which focuses on CSS-in-JS. Their work included adding a "try it out" playground page to the documentation, converting documentation files to TypeScript, and implementing various UI components and features within the website application. The user also added media query and other CSS styling features to the project. They also implemented a performance benchmarking app for the Griffel library.
reactcompilationahead-of-timecsscss-in-js
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