Sunny Hirai
A.I. Architect at MeZine.com Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSunny Hirai is an A.I. Architect based in Vancouver with 12 years of engineering experience and a long-standing entrepreneurial track record as CEO of CityMax.com and MeZine.com. He designs and builds AI-driven systems for legal contract management at Aline, blending practical product leadership with hands-on architecture. Sunny’s background includes early CTO experience at Suite101 and a diploma in Small Business Marketing Management, giving him a rare mix of technical, product, and business instincts. An active front-end and full-stack contributor to open-source rich-text editing projects like Slate and the AI-powered udecode/plate editor, he has improved Mac keyboard UX, collaborative upload flows, and cloud-backed image handling. He thrives at the intersection of UX polish and backend integrations, often surfacing subtle usability fixes that make collaborative editing feel seamless.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Killarney Secondary School
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
cloud-computing10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
rich-text9
text-editor9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
web-framework8
api8
browser8
app-framework8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ianstormtaylor/slate
Nov 2016 - Apr 2022
A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors. (Currently in beta.)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 289 commits, 131 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sunny primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Slate rich text editor framework. They fixed keybinding issues related to Mac keyboard shortcuts, particularly for expanding selections with Option and Shift keys. The user also addressed linting errors, improved the examples by incorporating CSS and JavaScript reloading, added links to GitHub and Docs, and refined the styling of the examples. Finally, they updated the scroll-to-selection functionality.
rich-textrichtextbrowserjavascriptrte
udecode/plate
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
A rich-text editor powered by AI
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 18 days
Contributions summary:Sunny primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the rich-text editor project, focusing on the integration and improvement of cloud functionality related to image and attachment handling. Their work included implementing resizing controls for images, optimizing the display of cloud images and attachments, and addressing collaborative upload issues. They also updated documentation and links related to the cloud platform, demonstrating a focus on both UI enhancements and integration with external services.
plugin-systemrich-textwysiwyg-editorrichtextjavascript
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