Yichen Zhu
Lead Frontend Developer at Staples Canada
Markham, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolYichen Zhu is a Lead Frontend Developer with 12 years of experience building high-impact, customer-facing web applications across enterprise and startup environments. Skilled in HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Redux and Node.js, he has led migrations from legacy stacks to modern React architectures and delivered performance improvements that materially increased conversion and reduced support costs. At TELUS he helped serve millions of users monthly and cut thousands of call centre contacts by shipping self-serve features, and at goba he halved mobile load times to boost sales. Comfortable mentoring teams and owning end-to-end delivery, he also brings hands-on DevOps and full-stack experience from launching products from zero to production. Based in Markham, Ontario, he’s currently open to new opportunities and known for turning complex legacy systems into maintainable, high-performing web platforms.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of TorontoHigh School Diploma Extended French Program, High School Diploma Extended French Program at Agincourt Collegiate Institute
English, French, Chinese, Shanghainese
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Github Skills (30)
fitness9
matchmaking9
nodejs9
orange9
mongodb9
frontend8
exchange8
redux8
javascript8
css7
react7
render4
renderer3
chatroom2
restful-api2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yichenzhu1337/maze-and-quiz-game
May 2014 - Apr 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes in 5 years 11 months
hackingthejsinterview/js-data-structures-and-algorithms
Sep 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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