Career Break
Various locations
I’ve been using this time to explore some of my interests—surfing, volunteering, massage training, and studying English abroad. Now I’m excited to bring these experiences with me into my next software engineering role.
Available for new opportunities
JimmyHu(Tzu-Kang)
A little about me
Summary
Software Engineer and Full-Stack Developer with 7+ years of experience building scalable web applications using React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, and Node.js. Specialised in enterprise dashboards, advertising platforms, and web advertising systems, with a strong focus on frontend architecture, performance optimisation, and legacy-system modernisation. Proven ability to lead projects from concept to launch, automate development workflows, collaborate across disciplines, and mentor engineers.
What I work with
Tools & Technologies
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Remix
- Redux
- TanStack Query
- React Intl
- Ant Design
- Tailwind CSS
- CSS-in-JS
- REST APIs
- Nx
- Node.js
- Koa
- Strapi
- PostgreSQL
Where I've worked
Experience
Dcard Taiwan Ltd.
Taipei, Taiwan
Senior Frontend Engineer
- Led Dcard for Business from concept to launch in two months, delivering a responsive website and CMS that enabled operators to independently publish and manage customer success stories.
- Streamlined the campaign-page request process by defining a clearer workflow and automating repetitive steps, reducing handling time from three hours to fifteen minutes.
- Modernized Dcard Ads’ data management by replacing Redux with TanStack Query, simplifying maintenance and reducing the initial JavaScript bundle by 12%.
- Planned and facilitated the gradual migration to Ant Design 5 across a shared codebase, creating transition guidance and compatibility tools that allowed teams to modernize without blocking ongoing product development.
- Owned front-end development for Dcard Ads and its internal operational tools, partnering with product managers, designers, QA engineers, and backend teams to deliver advertising and campaign-management features.
- Improved engineering quality through architecture reviews, code reviews, technical documentation, release automation, and mentorship that helped a junior colleague complete onboarding successfully.
Frontend Engineer
- Designed and launched Dcard Pixel Helper, a Chrome extension that helped customers verify conversion-tracking installations, reducing related support requests from twice a week to approximately once every six months.
- Mentored and supported an intern through development guidance and code reviews, helping them transition successfully into a permanent role.
Tools & Technologies
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Remix
- TanStack Query
- Ant Design
Altigen Technologies
Taipei, Taiwan
Web Front-end Engineer
- Simplified a complex customer onboarding process by working with the product manager to remove unnecessary steps, reducing the estimated development time from two months to one two-week cycle.
- Recognized that the absence of a dedicated product designer was causing unclear requirements and outdated, inconsistent interfaces. Volunteered to lead UI/UX design in Figma, translating feature ideas into user flows and implementation-ready mockups that helped teams align before development.
- Created a reusable ordering framework for multiple products with different dependencies, enabling new products to join the shared purchasing journey without introducing integration defects.
- Owned front-end development and UI/UX design for enterprise communication products used by customers, operators, and administrators, delivering accessible and localized interfaces for different user roles.
- Developed real-time call-management features and supporting server capabilities for a Microsoft Teams contact-center application, covering authentication, system integration, and internal testing tools.
Tools & Technologies
- TypeScript
- React
- Material UI
- Fluent UI
- fp-ts
- RxJS
Addweup Ltd.
Taipei, Taiwan
Frontend Developer
- Built Addweup’s official website from the ground up, partnering with designers to turn the company’s ideas into clear landing and contact pages that strengthened its public presence.
- Improved Uchange.to’s real-time service experience by redesigning key user journeys and simplifying its communication and queue workflows, making the product easier for customers and operators to use.
- Identified repetitive internal tasks and created tools for analytics reporting, email signature updates, and translation processing, reducing manual effort across business and development teams.
- Developed and maintained multilingual web applications for different markets, ensuring customers received consistent experiences across supported languages and regions.
- Built administrative tools that enabled business teams to manage regional terms, currencies, and pricing more efficiently without directly changing the customer-facing application.
Tools & Technologies
- React
- SCSS
- Flow
- webpack
- Redis
- Socket.IO
Freelance
Independent
Freelance Developer
Designed and built front ends for branding and e-commerce websites, a WordPress site, an ETH transfer matching platform, and an angel investment platform.
Tools & Technologies
- Vue 2
- Bootstrap CSS
- jQuery
- WordPress
- Pug
- Gulp