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I spent some time on an ambitious start-up idea that eventually did not take off. During these months, I also attempted to fix my health, and started traveling abroad again after several years of staying local.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

• Oversaw the development of a micro-frontend framework that powers the company’s diverse cloud and on-premise applications. The framework offers a common, React-based UI shell, plug-and-play mechanism, and messaging capabilities between applications• Led efforts to increase framework adoption by launching new branding initiatives, authoring tutorials, and creating a new application bootstrapping tool, leading to a significant rise in usage.• Served as a tech lead for a component library utilized by a dozen of applications to build cohesive and reusable UI components.• Modernized an outdated, jQuery-based framework UI by migrating to React. Reduced the framework's footprint by identifying and decoupling all server-side dependencies and technology assumptions from an older architecture. Made the framework much more flexible to be used in any tech stack that different application teams may choose to adopt.• Introduced modern React coding standards and best practices, documented guidelines, and recommended tools to numerous Juniper application teams.• Winner of CTO Hackathon

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

• Designed the architecture of the cloud and client app infrastructure using React, AWS S3, Lambda, etc• Defined personas, product and UX requirements• Conducted screening and hiring of engineers

San Mateo, California, Us

• Tech lead and engineering manager of a cross-functional, distributed front-end team, as well as the Commerce team responsible for the e-commerce marketing and app store, the Helix iOS app, and several other responsive React web applications• Collaborated with other engineering leaders on a 9-month re-platform project to greatly scale the system architecture with increasing site traffic, transactions, and the array of products on the DNA marketplace• Redefined and (re)architected multiple backend micro-services/bottlenecks. Replaced a storefront from a React app to a complete CMS-compatible e-commerce solution• Managed and coached high-performing distributed engineering teams, improving productivity and collaboration• Led weekly engineering meetings on front-end technical strategies, fostering innovation and alignment within the team• Multiplied engineering and product teams as a hiring manager. Responsible for screening candidates, designing interview questions, assigning members for interview panels and recommending hiring decisions to the Head of Engineering

San Mateo, California, Us

• Led and implemented content security policy for the web application• React, Redux, Express, GoLang, AWS, etc

Redwood City, Ca, Us

• As the first web front-end engineer of the company, architected and developed numerous features, such as user collaboration, at-mention in comment fields, an industry-leading preview technology, file metadata search, audit logging and reporting, and redesigned Admin Console for enterprise admins built in React• Seven-time Box Hackathon/ Hack Day winner, including a first-place award, and a special award from the CEO• Core member of a small team that initiated and developed a new version of Box.com that had the front-end layer, including JavaScript, templates and CSS architecture completely re-written. The number of CSS lines of the whole application reduced dramatically from 500,000+ lines to about 4,000 lines• Collaborated closely with Google's Chrome team and implemented the Chrome HTML 5 drag-and-drop download feature; authored related articles for html5rocks.com• Led the development of third-party integration projects, such as Chatter, Google Docs integration, and the Box Chrome Web Store app, which became a featured app and attracted 50,000+ downloads in the first two months• Led a small team on web security. Identified and removed various potential security threats in the Box web app. Designed security framework features and threat detection mechanisms. Also co-created security-related features, such as enterprise SSO settings and security reporting.• Core team of several early React engineers to migrate the web app to React in 2016-2017• Scrum master of multiple agile teams• Authored and co-authored Box web app coding standards of PHP, JavaScript and CSS, security best practices, and interview questions• An experienced interviewer. Conducted over a hundred interviews.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Watertown, Ma, Us

• Actively involved in web development projects including, but not limited to: - HongKongDisneyland.com - Seagate.com - AIG.com - DisneyVacationClub.com - MiCoach.com - BoostMobile.com - AIG American General - DisneyWeddings.com - Southwest Airlines - 15+ countries sites for Alico.com etc.• Engineered responsive AJAX interaction and state-of-the-art JavaScript for the award-winning Ernst & Young EY Insight web app• Developed CMS-driven infrastructure for HongKongDisneyland.com (GoPublish), DisneyVacationClub.com (GoPublish), ABCFamily.com (GoPublish), AIG American General (Tridion) and Alico.com (CrownPeak)• Worked on search engine optimization and keyword analysis for Seagate• Supported strategic planning of globalization for various projects