Zhihao Cui
Frontend Platform Enginner
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolZhihao Cui is a Frontend Platform Engineer based in London with 11 years' experience building design systems, React component libraries, and tooling that smooth the handoff between design and development. He has driven UI architecture and design-system adoption at major firms including J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs and now Vitol, often pairing TypeScript/React engineering with Figma plugin development and OpenFin integration. His background spans AR/VR research and manufacturing automation to startup leadership, giving him a rare blend of interaction design sensibility and systems-level engineering. He focuses on reducing toil through reusable components, advanced prototyping and platform support for white‑labelling and enterprise deployment. An active creator of Figma plugins and React libraries on GitHub, he bridges product, design and developer ecosystems to accelerate delivery. Collected academic training from Cambridge and hands-on experience across finance, CAD/CAM and startups inform his pragmatic but experimental approach to frontend platforms.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Information and Computer Engineering, MEng, Information and Computer Engineering at University of Cambridge
English, Chinese, Shanghainese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (93)
ui-components10
angular-material-components10
wcag10
wai-aria10
customisation10
accessibility10
macbook-pro10
touchbar10
react10
brightness9
angular-material9
gamma9
package-json9
filtering8
live-coding8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
origami-z/stunning-guacamole
Mar 2023 - Dec 2024
Salt DS theme editor concept using custom sandpack
Contributions:12 PRs, 39 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 9 months
origami-z/react-data-generator
Dec 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months
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