Lynn Chyi
Experience Architect, Senior Staff at Dayforce
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLynn Chyi is a seasoned engineering leader and Experience Architect with a decade of experience scaling web platforms, design systems, and cross-platform UI teams from startup to enterprise. She has led foundational web platform and design system efforts at Robinhood and Workday—building Canvas Kit into an open-source React component library and founding the Web Platform team that supported 50+ engineers and critical web products. Lynn blends hands-on front-end craftsmanship (addressing accessibility, cross-browser and IE11 quirks in component libraries) with high-level team and product strategy, enabling faster, consistent UI delivery across mobile and web. At Illumina she served as a founding frontend architect for a fleet dashboard, balancing architecture, hiring, and large distributed teams. Based in California, she pairs a Management Science degree and CS minor from UC San Diego with a pragmatic focus on developer experience, bundle optimization, and shipping server-driven UI at scale. Her background as both designer and engineer gives her a rare fluency in turning design systems into production-day developer tools.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (15)
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typescripts10
backward-compatibility10
react10
typescript-types10
accessibilityservice10
ui-components10
storybook9
css8
html8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Workday/canvas-kit
Jun 2019 - Nov 2020
Development kits to implement UI following the Workday Canvas Design System (https://canvas.workday.com/). See our Component Storybook -
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 35 reviews, 80 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Lynn primarily contributed to the UI component library, `canvas-kit`, focusing on improvements to existing components and ensuring compatibility across browsers. Their work included updating component props with correct interfaces, fixing accessibility issues with `aria-labelledby` attributes, and resolving IE11 compatibility issues in various components like headers and buttons. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs, such as incorrect typing in the select component.
reactfollowingcanvasstorybookdesign-system
lychyi/color-tools
Nov 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:30 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 11 months
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