Yi-fan Liao
Staff Software Engineer at Indeed
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolYi-fan Liao is a Staff Software Engineer based in Chiyoda, Japan, with over a decade of experience building web applications, from HTML5 games and WebGL demos to universal JavaScript sites and Web TV UIs. He specializes in frontend engineering and animation, having driven UX improvements at Mozilla’s Gaia project and led frontend teams at Rakuten Travel to deliver multilingual, isomorphic React apps with robust CI/CD and testing. At Indeed he progressed from UX Developer to Staff Engineer, blending hands-on UI development with team leadership and API design. His background includes TV and browser UI work for Firefox OS and pragmatic automation of frontend workflows using tools like PM2, Jest, Jenkins and Ansible. Notably, his commits to the once-prominent Gaia repository focused on modernizing UI code and improving UX for device-oriented interfaces.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Attended for 1 year pursuing a Master degree, Computer Science, Attended for 1 year pursuing a Master degree, Computer Science at National Cheng Kung UniversityHSNU
Chinese, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (4)
html10
javascript10
css10
user-interface10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla-b2g/gaia
Jul 2014 - Apr 2016
DEPRECATED - Gaia is a HTML5-based Phone UI for the Boot 2 Gecko Project. NOTE: For details of what branches are used for what releases, see
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:256 commits, 221 PRs, 85 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Yi-fan's commits primarily focused on modifying the UI of the Boot to Gecko (B2G) project's Gaia user interface. Contributions included removing obsolete build script parameters, implementing UX improvements related to the recent apps view, and refactoring system app code to utilize `Object.create` instead of `__proto__`. The changes demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience and modernizing the underlying code of the UI.
branchesphonejavascriptgaiahtml5
begeeben/gaia
Jan 2015 - Apr 2016
Gaia is a HTML5-based Phone UI for the Boot 2 Gecko Project. NOTE: For details of what branches are used for what releases, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/B2G_Landing
Contributions:119 pushes, 112 branches, 7 tags in 1 year 3 months
branchesphonerelease-managementjavascriptgaia
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