Xin Tan
Frontend Developer at iXsystems
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXin Tan is a frontend developer based in San Jose with 10 years of experience building complex, production-grade user interfaces and real-time features. At iXsystems he designs and implements UI for TrueNAS, contributing across web UI and middleware to add snapshot cloning, VM device management, and cross-browser polished components. Comfortable full-stack, he pairs Angular/TypeScript frontends with Python backends and has a history of shipping RESTful APIs and debugging systems end-to-end. Earlier roles at Youku and as a data/ETL engineer gave him a solid backend and tooling background, and his open-source work on the high-profile TrueNAS repositories demonstrates practical impact on widely used storage software. He prefers pragmatic, modern tools (mentions Svelte and Python) and enjoys solving UI problems that span design, real-time websockets, and middleware integration.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Beijing Jiaotong University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
typescript10
webui10
manage10
front-end-development10
vms10
nas10
typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
angular10
back-end-development9
web-development9
backend8
zfs8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
truenas/webui
Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
TrueNAS UI
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:537 commits, 65 PRs, 245 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Xin primarily worked on front-end and back-end code for the TrueNAS UI. Their commits included fixing disk icon displays by modifying TypeScript and HTML files, adding and implementing a clone function with its associated components, and updating a snapshot name format. They also addressed a bug related to routing after volume creation and added components for device additions within the VM section.
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truenas/middleware
Apr 2017 - May 2017
TrueNAS CORE/Enterprise/SCALE Middleware Git Repository
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 21 pushes in 14 days
Contributions summary:Xin primarily worked on the TrueNAS middleware web UI, contributing to features related to snapshot management and virtual machine device configuration. They implemented new functionality for snapshot cloning and refined the snapshot naming convention. Additionally, they added components for managing different VM device types, enhancing the system's user interface and functionality. The contributions spanned both frontend and backend, indicated by file modifications in both the webui and backend components.
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