Lou Huang
Founder CEO at Bad Idea Factory
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolLou Huang is a founder and CEO with 12 years of experience building civic-focused web tools that blend urban design and frontend engineering. As the creator and maintainer of Streetmix, they lead product vision, partnerships, and engineering while shipping UX improvements used worldwide for street and transit design. Previously a senior UI engineer at Mapzen, Lou contributed to Tangram, a notable WebGL map renderer, where they enhanced interactive map features and polished the user experience. Their background in urban design and architecture informs a rare combo of spatial thinking and web development, from form-based code to React refactors and accessibility-minded UI work. Based in Philadelphia, Lou also co-runs a creative collective and contributes consistently to open-source projects, often focusing on pragmatic frontend refactors that improve maintainability and collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Architecture, Bachelor's Architecture at University of California, BerkeleyMasters City Planning, Masters City Planning at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
leaflet10
css10
ui-design10
render10
uid10
front-end-development10
maps10
react10
webgl9
react-intl9
vector-graphics8
html6
offset6
read-the-docs6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
streetmix/streetmix
Feb 2014 - Jan 2023
Streetmix makes it easy for people to design public spaces together.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:174 reviews, 3753 commits, 2092 PRs in 9 years
Contributions summary:Lou primarily refactored existing React components to use functional components. They converted a feature flag dialog component, and refactored tests for a share menu and other UI elements. They made changes to the environment editor for improved transitions, added Openmoji to the UI, and updated the appearance of various user interface elements, including the toolbar icons, color scheme, and the street nameplate.
spacesstreetmixurban-planningcivic-techcity-builder
tangrams/tangram
May 2015 - Aug 2016
WebGL map rendering engine for creative cartography
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Lou primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Tangram web application. They implemented a city locator feature, including the development of associated CSS and JavaScript code to integrate with existing map components. Furthermore, the user addressed UI/UX issues, such as improving the city search box's behavior and ensuring key shortcuts in the dat-gui library did not interfere with the search. The commits indicate a focus on improving the user experience through interactive map features.
leafletrendering-enginewebgltangrammagic
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