Pamela Lam
Software Engineer at J. Paul Getty Trust
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPamela Lam is a software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack JavaScript applications and tooling, currently contributing to digital projects at the J. Paul Getty Trust. She co-created ReactOpt, a popular open-source CLI that uses Puppeteer and Chrome automation to detect unnecessary React re-renders (over 1.8k GitHub stars), and applies that same pragmatic performance mindset to production systems. Pamela has led API and migration efforts—moving services from Firebase to MySQL and implementing Google Cloud Functions—while also building interactive React/Redux front-ends and integrating diverse stacks including Flask, Elasticsearch, Docker, and IIIF. A community-minded engineer and frequent speaker on React internals, she blends hands-on coding with developer advocacy and a knack for turning observability into actionable optimization.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (8)
puppeteer10
javascript10
event-handling10
react10
ui-design9
performance-optimization9
front-end-development9
uid9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
reactopt/reactopt
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
A CLI React performance optimization tool that identifies potential unnecessary re-rendering
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 10 PRs, 1 push in 23 days
Contributions summary:Pamela primarily focused on enhancing the React performance optimization tool. They implemented the Chrome launcher to interact with the React app and added event listeners for user interactions such as clicks, double clicks, drags, and keyboard input to capture user behavior. They refactored code to store the captured event data and component re-renders in a window object, enabling data analysis. The user also refactored the code and implemented Puppeteer to gather data and perform audits.
reactperformance-optimizationoptimizationreact-performancerendering
itspamlam/RORsandbox
Mar 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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