Nelson Wong
Senior User Interface Engineer at Turnitin
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNelson Wong is a Senior User Interface Engineer based in Austin with a decade of experience designing and building accessible, responsive web interfaces using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/TypeScript and React. He has a strong UX sensibility informed by a BA in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley and a history of improving product outcomes—such as a 60% fundraising lift after redesigning a flagship eCRM. At Turnitin he focuses on front-end architecture and accessibility, and his open-source contributions to the popular reactour project demonstrate hands-on work improving screen-reader compatibility and ARIA semantics. Nelson combines pixel-perfect implementation skills with usability research and cross-browser problem-solving honed across large legacy systems and high-traffic portals.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Cognitive Science, Emphases in Computational Modeling & Cognitive Psychology, BA, Cognitive Science, Emphases in Computational Modeling & Cognitive Psychology at University of California, BerkeleyNorth Hollywood High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
accessibility10
javascript10
react-components10
user-interface10
knight-tour10
front-end-development10
react10
react-component10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
elrumordelaluz/reactour
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
Tourist Guide into your React Components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 35 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nelson primarily contributed to enhancing the accessibility and functionality of the Reactour component. They implemented features such as adding aria-labels to navigation dots and close buttons, and incorporating a role="dialog" attribute for improved screen reader compatibility. Furthermore, the user added props to control the visibility of navigation for screen readers and combined accessibility-related options, demonstrating a focus on improving the user experience and accessibility of the tour component.
reactpresentationjoyridereact-componentsproduct-intro
nelsonwong1012/reactour
Jan 2019 - Jul 2020
Tourist Guide into your React Components
Contributions:1 release, 17 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 6 months
reacttourist-guidereact-componentsreactjstourist
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