Rui Qiu
Software Engineer at Salesforce
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRui Qiu is a software engineer with a decade of experience building front-end systems at Salesforce from intern to full engineer in San Francisco. He specializes in Lightning Web Components, contributing to the widely used salesforce/lwc project with deep, test-focused work around shadow DOM behavior, event propagation, and synthetic shadow bug fixes. Rui combines rigorous academic training—a PhD and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT Austin—with practical industry delivery, bridging research-grade thinking and production engineering. His background includes research and teaching at UT Austin and internships at NASA Ames and Visa, which inform a methodical, systems-oriented approach to frontend problems. Colleagues rely on him for nuanced debugging and integration testing that uncovers subtle component interactions. He brings uncommon depth in component internals to teams building large-scale enterprise UI frameworks.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Zhejiang University
Github Skills (14)
lwc10
javascript10
web-components10
k10
testing10
web-framework9
css9
html9
application-framework9
app-framework9
salesforce8
typescripts7
typescript-types7
typescript7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
salesforce/lwc
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
⚡️ LWC - A Blazing Fast, Enterprise-Grade Web Components Foundation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 66 reviews, 22 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Rui primarily contributed to the testing and development of Lightning Web Components (LWC) within the Salesforce ecosystem. Their work involved adding and modifying integration tests using Karma, focusing on event propagation, shadow DOM behavior, and the interaction of components within the LWC framework. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of LWC's internal workings, including shadow DOM specifics and various features such as directives, external components and programmatic stylesheets. They also addressed bugs related to synthetic shadow and assignedSlot behavior.
blazingweb-componentsenterprise-gradeframeworkwebcomponents
rui-rayqiu/salesforcedx-vscode
Feb 2024 - Feb 2024
Salesforce Extensions for VS Code
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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