Toby Li
Web Developer at Adaptive Financial Consulting
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolToby Li is a UK-based web developer with 10 years of hands-on experience building front-end applications and improving developer tooling. Currently at Adaptive Financial Consulting, he focuses on React-based real-time UIs and PWA features for trading systems, and has contributed TypeScript definition fixes to the high-profile DefinitelyTyped repository to improve library ergonomics. His background includes full-stack internships where he built AWS-hosted Flask services, wrote a Go gRPC logger, and automated builds and packaging with Cake and Jenkins—demonstrating a practical mix of backend, devops and frontend skills. Known for being punctual, quick to learn and detail-oriented, he often targets developer experience improvements and performance fixes that quietly reduce friction for teams.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University College London
Github Skills (12)
typescript10
javascript10
typescript-definitions10
typescripts10
type-definition10
react10
typescript-types10
openfin9
javafx9
finance9
storybook8
pwapp8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AdaptiveConsulting/ReactiveTraderCloud
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Real-time FX trading showcase by Adaptive.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 99 reviews, 34 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Toby primarily focused on front-end development, implementing features and fixing bugs within the React-based client application. Their work included modifying the application's configuration for different environments and PWA (Progressive Web App) functionality. They also added a screen for creating RFQs (Request for Quotes) and improved the user interface by incorporating features like Cusip and benchmark display.
adaptiveexpresspwafinancereactjs
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 19 days
Contributions summary:Toby primarily contributed to the TypeScript type definitions within the repository. Their work involved correcting and improving the type definitions for the OpenFin library, specifically addressing timeout and state management. They also added and tested CSS properties within the browser-bunyan library, and fixed a typo. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the developer experience and maintaining accurate type definitions.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
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