Timmy Huang
L5 Senior Staff Front End Software Engineer at Biohub
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolTimmy Huang is an L5 Senior Staff Front End Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience building high-quality, user-focused web applications. At Biohub he has progressed through multiple senior front-end roles, driving UI architecture, reusable components, and test automation for data-intensive scientific tools. Timmy contributes to notable open-source work such as enhancing front-end testing and AuthN smoke tests for cellxgene, an interactive single-cell transcriptomics explorer. He pairs strong engineering craft (Puppeteer, snapshot and E2E testing, linters) with mentorship and pragmatic design decisions honed at organizations including Google Fiber and GuideSpark. An INTJ who cares about making life easier for others, he blends rigorous attention to detail with a bias for operationally reliable, well-tested interfaces. Outside core engineering, his background in operations and customer-facing roles gives him an uncommon product empathy that informs how he prioritizes developer and end-user experience.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Dev Bootcamp NYCUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese, Japanese
Stackoverflow
65reputation
17kreached
4answers
8questions
Github Skills (22)
e2e-testing10
puppeteer10
javascript10
e2e-test10
testing10
jestjs10
react10
data-visualization8
data-viz8
data-visualisation8
visualization8
visualizations8
usecallback6
ruby-on-rails6
array-map6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
chanzuckerberg/cellxgene
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
An interactive explorer for single-cell transcriptomics data
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:138 reviews, 18 commits, 61 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Timmy primarily focused on enhancing the front-end aspects of the `cellxgene` repository, specifically around testing. Their contributions included adding and updating end-to-end tests using Puppeteer, implementing chart tests, and integrating snapshot testing. Furthermore, the user addressed linter errors, added documentation, and refactored code to improve the overall quality of the UI tests. The user also contributed to the AuthN integration smoke tests.
visualizationscrna-seqbioinformaticsscientificdataviz
chanzuckerberg/single-cell-explorer
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Hosted version of cellxgene
Contributions:391 reviews, 25 commits, 235 PRs in 1 year 4 months
bioinformaticshostedgenomics
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