Silas Tsui
Software Engineer at Figma
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSilas Tsui is a software engineer with a decade of experience building productive editor experiences and core infrastructure; he currently works on Figma Slides where he focuses on the editor and has shipped features like variants, interactive components, embeds, sections, diagramming, and tables. His background spans full‑stack product work, relevance and systems tooling at LinkedIn, core storage at Asana, and applied ML/data pipelines for fraud detection, giving him a pragmatic mix of front-end UX and back-end reliability. Based in San Francisco, he pairs strong academic roots from Waterloo (CS & Statistics, 3.9 GPA) and an exchange at HKU with a history of student leadership creating tech for social good. Notably comfortable across editor UX and distributed systems, he brings a blend of product sensitivity and instrumentation-first engineering to complex, real-time interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science and Statistics, 3.9 GPA, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science and Statistics, 3.9 GPA at University of Waterloo
English, French, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
plugin7
figma7
blueprint7
api6
shiny6
typescript5
figma-plugin3
chatbot2
python2
spire2
racing1
multiplayer1
messenger1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
uwblueprint/starter-code
Mar 2019 - Sep 2020
Starter code for UW Blueprint projects
Contributions:4 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
blueprintstarter-code
silastsui/silastsui.github.io
May 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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