Lingjia Liu
Frontend Engineer at Canva
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLingjia Liu is a Melbourne-based Frontend Engineer with 13 years of experience building modern web apps and mobile games, currently shaping UI at Canva. She blends deep JavaScript/React expertise and CSS/HTML5 craft with a game-programming background—having contributed UI fixes to the well-known cocos2d-html5 project and shipped Cocos2d/Unity mobile work. Lingjia has migrated legacy AngularJS stacks to React, led frontend toolkits and pipelines, and pairs frontend polish with AWS/LAMP serverless know-how. Comfortable across open-source, cross-disciplinary squads, and mentoring roles, she often brings game-engine discipline (scene/resource managers, performant animations) to consumer-facing interfaces.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College
Chinese, English
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
cocos2d-html510
ui-design9
web-development9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cocos2d/cocos2d-html5
Jun 2014 - May 2015
Cocos2d for Web Browsers. Built using JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Lingjia primarily focused on fixing bugs and addressing issues related to the user interface and Cocos2d-html5 library within the repository. Their contributions include rectifying layout bugs in UI elements and correcting animation behavior. The changes also involve updating components like loading bars and fixing incorrect positions in action nodes to improve overall UI functionality and performance. This work demonstrates a focus on improving the visual aspects and user experience of the web-based application.
cocos2d-xjavascript
mutoo/critterpedia-plus
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
An advanced critterpedia for Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Contributions:102 commits, 18 PRs, 75 pushes in 2 years 8 months
crossinghorizonsanimal-crossingnew-horizonsanimal-crossing-new-horizons
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