Rocky Liao
UI Engineer at SIMON Markets LLC
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRocky Liao is a UI Engineer based in New York with eight years of experience building full-stack JavaScript applications, specializing in modular React/Redux front ends and scalable Node.js backends. He co-created Reactide, the first React-dedicated IDE that earned over 9.5k GitHub stars, and has a track record of refactoring legacy code, implementing design systems, and optimizing GraphQL and Apollo-based architectures. Rocky combines pragmatic engineering—using React Hooks, Redux patterns, and Express middleware—with database design expertise in PostgreSQL and NoSQL to balance performance and scalability. He frequently contributes open-source developer tools and emphasizes test-driven workflows, CI, and developer productivity enhancements. Colleagues know him for turning complex front-end state problems into maintainable, performant systems while also making developer experience a first-class product consideration.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University at Buffalo
Chinese, English
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
dedicated10
web-application10
ide10
reactide10
redux10
devtools10
nodejs10
react10
electron9
open-source9
typescript8
chrome-extension8
new-language8
mongoose-schema7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SeemsRocky/AlgoAnswers
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
team-wars/iSpy
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:9 PRs, 15 pushes, 4 branches in 3 days
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