Tiger Oakes
UI Engineer at Self-employed
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTiger Oakes is a UI Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance, accessible web and mobile interfaces, currently at Citadel and previously driving product and engineering improvements at Microsoft. A prolific open-source maintainer and creator, he built Maskable.app (used 11k+ times/month and recommended by Google & CSS-Tricks) and contributes to widely used projects like typescript-eslint, Rollup plugins, and Firefox Android. He blends deep front-end expertise (React, TypeScript, CSS) with mobile and backend work—shipping performance wins, tooling, and migrations across large codebases. Known for pragmatic refactors and automated tooling, he’s improved rendering, caching, and testing at scale and mentored dozens of engineers. Unusually, he turns household detritus into “weird tech projects,” reflecting a playful curiosity that complements his production-grade engineering.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (71)
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ui-components10
testing10
typescript-definitions10
type-definition10
file-operations10
typedefs10
android-developer10
javas10
fluentd10
javascript10
session-management10
async10
python-templates10
uid10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
rollup/plugins
Dec 2019 - Sep 2020
🍣 The one-stop shop for official Rollup plugins
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:117 reviews, 41 commits, 71 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Tiger primarily contributed to the `rollup/plugins` repository by migrating and improving several Rollup plugins. Their work involved refactoring code, fixing ESLint errors, and updating plugin configurations. Key contributions include migrating `rollup-plugin-legacy`, `rollup-plugin-typescript`, and `rollup-plugin-commonjs`, enhancing the overall functionality and maintainability of the plugin ecosystem.
rolluprollup-pluginsbundlerstopshop
mozilla-mobile/fenix
May 2019 - Sep 2020
⚠️ Fenix (Firefox for Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:7 reviews, 296 commits, 534 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Tiger primarily contributed to the Fenix (Firefox for Android) project, focusing on implementing features related to user interface and user experience. Their commits included adding and updating UI components, such as toolbar buttons and a dialog for web app site controls, and integrating the feature to disable pull-to-refresh. The user also made several updates, refactoring, and refactoring existing classes related to UI and code.
firefoxbrowserandroidfirefox-for-androidmozilla
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