Pokai Chang
Framework Maintainer at Tamagui
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolPokai Chang is a framework maintainer and full‑stack engineer with 13 years of experience, currently based in Berlin and driving reliability and cross‑platform support for the One/Tamagui ecosystem. He specializes in debugging across multiple abstraction layers—from bundlers and native runtimes (Hermes JSI, Metro, Vite) to app frameworks and CI—having reimplemented native bundling pipelines, stabilized HMR, and automated iOS releases. Comfortable in JavaScript, Ruby, Haskell, Elixir, and ReasonML/ReScript, he blends front-end UI work with build tooling and backend automation, and contributed key fixes and features to tamagui including module specifier resolution and .mjs source maps. Pokai also set up cross‑platform testing with Appium and Playwright and has a track record of enabling production deployments on Vercel and AWS ECS. He pairs hands‑on engineering with pragmatic product sense from prior roles leading SSO architecture and AI/LLM experimentation, and is known for tracing elusive bugs to actionable insights that speed future debugging.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Information Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English, Hokkien, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
react-native9
css-in-js9
build-automation9
webpacker8
vite8
webpack8
optimizers7
optimizer7
compiler7
graphql6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tamagui/tamagui
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Style React fast with 100% parity on React Native, an optional UI kit, and optimizing compiler.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 PRs, 13 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Pokai primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the `babel-plugin-fully-specified` package, fixing issues, and adding new features related to module specifier resolution. They also worked on build processes, specifically outputting source maps for .mjs files within the Tamagui build system. Furthermore, the user contributed to the takeout project, integrating features like auth hooks, UI components, and tab bars for the web environment. The contributions demonstrate expertise across multiple areas of the project, including build and front-end/backend development.
optimizing-compilercompileroptimizingui-componentsui-kit
colorgy/Style
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:99 commits, 92 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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