Otis Chou

• Initially joined as a frontend engineer, stepped forward to take a leader role to lead 3 frontend engineers on mainly focused and profitable projects in the company.
• Created a UI library and cooperated with a design team to build a design system.
• Optimized the performance of our applications from multiple aspects including bundle size, transmission time, and shrinking loading waterfall.
• Increased teams' efficiency in many ways including building a utility library, improving JsBridge, creating a logger library, introducing prettier, actively writing documentation to share know-how.
• Supported hiring process as an interviewer, screened 300+ resumes, and conducted 100+ technical interviews.

• Created from scratch a VIP income system by conducting the end-user interview before working on the design independently in the absence of a designer. The system led to 60% fewer mistakes made in the daily operations of the VIP team.
• Optimized the performance of a gift management system with large lists to deliver a silky 60FPS experience.
• Created an internal CLI to deploy and preview in-progress branch on staging environment for demonstrating the new features to the end users independently.
• Led the team on exploring best practices and drawing up schema conventions for GraphQL-based developments.
• Built a refined testing environment for our team by integrating Circle CI with GitHub, and compiled documents on the unit test guide.
• Upgraded React to v16 without breaking anything with the help of e2e tests, codemod, and a thorough validation plan.

"commandp" was a start-up that helps individuals create their customized products such as phone case, t-shirt, and etc..

• Built a hybrid App based on React Native, and optimized network usage, animations, and large lists. Resulted in speeding up iteration and benefited business logic changing.
• Developed and documented an editing tool SDK based on React and canvas, which was successfully selected by the Chinese largest gift website (liwusuo.com) and brought a profit for commandp.
• Coordinated the effort of communication between the frontend and backend team by drawing up RESTful API, and providing Rails helpers for consistent UI.
• Pioneered unit testing, frontend deployment automation, and development process. Increase the code quality and relieve the burden on developers.

• Developed and maintained projects using Ruby on Rails, and practiced OOP and TDD
• Migrated API service from Node.js to Ruby on Rails
• Improved CSS structure. Unified naming style and made CSS modulized
• Redesigned the company website to make it more responsive and better looking

• Leaded a team to build a online course platform that helps 12 universities to train their teaching assistants.
• Developed Oauth2 provider system based on Java.
• Designed and implmented a relationship management system for schools.
• As an instructor, helped customers use company's products efficiently.

• Language: Native Chinese & Working English
• VISA: Japanese Highly Skilled Professional, until 2027/12/16