Xiao Lin is a Senior Software Engineer in Mountain View with 11 years building full-stack web products that marry product focus, data, and design. He has driven platform and API work at Twitter, led front-end migrations and product features at WayUp, and now contributes to Aurora, bringing experience across search, discovery, and developer platforms. Comfortable across TypeScript, Node, React and complex back-end integrations, he also contributes to open-source UI components such as a React image gallery with lazy loading and mobile swipe support. Known for improving user experience through thoughtful front-end details and pragmatic backend design, he blends product sensibility with hands-on engineering to ship polished, scalable features.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Queens College
React carousel image gallery component with thumbnail support đź–Ľ
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:58 releases, 27 reviews, 412 commits in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Xiao primarily contributed to the user interface of the React image gallery component, making adjustments to the slide and thumbnail positioning logic. They added features like lazy loading and mobile swipe support to improve user experience. Further, they incorporated additional features, such as customizing the slide and thumbnail classes and adding the possibility of including a video element.
Contributions:1 PR, 96 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
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