Melvin Chen
Design Engineer at Nearform
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelvin Chen is a Seattle-based design engineer with 8 years of experience blending product design and front-end development to ship accessible, reusable interfaces and prototypes. He moves fluidly between visual design and code, leveraging a BS in Computer Science and Design to translate user research and accessibility insights into production-ready components. His background includes UX work for healthcare at Boston Children’s Hospital, client-facing engineering at Wunderkind, and current design-engineering at Nearform, reflecting a track record of cross-disciplinary collaboration. Melvin is known for rapid prototyping with new tools and for obsessing over visual integrity and component reusability—skills honed both in studio leadership roles and hands-on front-end work. Unusually for someone straddling design and development, he also has practical maker experience operating laser cutters and critiquing physical work, which informs his tactile approach to digital product design.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Design, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Design at Northeastern University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (30)
accessibility10
react-carousel10
javascript10
webpack-dev-server10
slide10
decks10
react10
data-visualizations9
webpack9
react-component9
devtools9
cli9
charts8
dashboard8
package-explorer7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
FormidableLabs/spectacle-visual-editor
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Experimental project for editing and creating Spectacle decks visually.
Contributions:73 commits in 1 year 3 months
deckseditingspectacleexperimental-project
melvin-chen/recipes
Dec 2019 - Mar 2022
Recipes collected over time
Contributions:38 PRs, 65 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
pythonrecipesmachine-learning
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