Stephen Kao
Senior Software Engineer at Kaizen Labs
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Kao is a senior software engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building front-end-focused web applications and resilient back-end services. He blends a designer’s eye—favoring pixel-perfect UI/UX and handcrafted implementations—with pragmatic engineering across JavaScript, CSS, HTML/SVG, PHP, SQL/MongoDB, and languages like Java and C++. His career spans roles at Mozilla, Nava, and Good Dog, where he led and shipped production systems while preferring to avoid heavy frameworks in favor of custom-built solutions. A lifelong learner with an early interest in linguistics and game development, he brings curiosity and meticulousness to both UX details and architecture. He’s comfortable across the stack, contributes thoughtfully to code and design decisions, and often prefers building components from scratch to better understand and control their behavior.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Chinese, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Chinese at University of Pittsburgh
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
209reputation
10kreached
1answer
9questions
Github Skills (91)
css-loader10
hl710
html-webpack-plugin10
inline-styles10
css10
chrome-extension10
webpack10
chrome10
loader10
webpack-loader10
react-auth9
prototyping9
css-modules9
devtools8
backbone8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DogParkLabs/Croppie
Jun 2019 - Jul 2020
A Javascript Image Cropper
Contributions:6 PRs, 5 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 1 month
imagecropjavascriptcropperimage-cropper
stephenkao/stitcher-downloader
May 2018 - Dec 2019
stitcher-downloader
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
downloader
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