Yangshun Tay
Co-founder at GreatFrontEnd
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolYangshun Tay is a front-end engineer and founder with 13 years of experience, currently building GreatFrontEnd to help engineers advance their front-end skills and careers. Previously a Staff Engineer at Meta, he led a multi-team effort to unify Meta’s e-commerce front end and created the internal server-driven UI framework and design systems used across meta.com, oculus.com and several help centers. He’s the creator of popular open-source projects like Docusaurus v2 and the Tech Interview Handbook, and authored the widely used Blind 75 interview list, demonstrating a strong focus on developer education and documentation. Yangshun combines hands-on engineering (React, accessibility, i18n, SSR, perf) with product thinking and content creation, having written most of GreatFrontEnd’s technical content himself. Based in Singapore, he brings both large-scale platform leadership and grassroots community impact—his OSS work alone has reached hundreds of thousands of engineers.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B. Computing, Computer Science, First Class Honours (Highest Distinction), B. Computing, Computer Science, First Class Honours (Highest Distinction) at National University of SingaporeGCE A Levels, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Economics, GCE A Levels, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Economics at Hwa Chong InstitutionMinor in Technopreneurship, Management Science and Engineering, Minor in Technopreneurship, Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
51,338reputation
10.1mreached
274answers
48questions
react-native
top-1%
redux
top-1%
jsx
top-5%
react-router
top-5%
react-hooks
top-1%
javascript
top-1%
Github Skills (75)
website-development10
google-analytics10
testing10
webpages10
web-content10
jtest10
jsx10
javascript10
jes10
formatter10
uid10
front-end-development10
formatters10
html10
typescripts10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
yangshun/front-end-interview-handbook
Jan 2018 - Dec 2022
🌐 Front End interview preparation materials for busy engineers
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:114 reviews, 223 commits, 323 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Yangshun focused on front-end development tasks within this repository, which is centered around front-end interview preparation. Their commits primarily involved modifying and testing JavaScript code, specifically algorithms and utility functions like binary search, merge sort, and matrix operations. The user also refactored and added tests for these utility functions, and the user was involved in initializing and updating the website components.
front-end-interviewcss-questionsreactpreparationbusy
facebookarchive/flux
Jul 2019 - Jun 2022
Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 9 reviews, 46 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Yangshun's commits primarily involve migrating the website to Docusaurus 2, a static site generator. This included bootstrapping the new website and making minor tweaks to the existing content. They updated various website pages and configuration files to be compatible with the new Docusaurus version. The user also focused on adding and updating the required links and content for the website.
immutablejsuser-interfacesapplication-architecturefluxangular
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