| permalink | title | noindex |
|---|---|---|
head~1 |
Wenchen (Neo) Li |
true |
(Past version from 2021)
Languages: HTML, CSS (SCSS), JavaScript (ES2015+/ESNext), and TypeScript
Libraries: React (with Redux, Next.js and Gatsby), Angular (with RxJS and NgRx) and GSAP
Tools: Git, Node.js, Storybook, Jest and headless CMS like Sanity and Contentful
Jam3 (FWA Club 100)
Front End Developer, March 2017 － Present
Front End Developer (Contract), January 2017 － March 2017
Junior Developer (Student Intern), October 2016 － December 2016
- Lead within the department in various ways
- Lead development of client projects with teams of 3 ~ 6+ developers for the duration ranging from 3 weeks to 3+ months
- Provide empathetic and educative code reviews as well as constructive feedback
- Learn from and mentor/foster others with passion and patience
- Experiment and evaluate tech and patterns and advocate the suitable and useful ones
- Keep learning quickly, continuously and autonomously and sharing findings with the team
- Make observations and suggestions to improve the production process
- Contribute to internal toolings
- Advocate best practices and internal conventions, and contribute to automatic tools to help enforcing them
- Author, abstract and contribute reusable logic and code into libraries and templates
- Initiate and participate in discussions to iterate and improve the existing toolings
- Collaborate across discipline
- Evaluate and validate features, creative concepts and ideas
- Anticipate unknown risks, estimate known tasks and manage expectations and priorities
- Understand the goals from internal and external stakeholders to balance the needs and get the best result with limited resources
- Ask the right questions to reduce confusion and make communication more efficient
- Strive for a high standard of code quality
- Keep the codebase healthy, maintainable and scalable with a clean and robust architecture
- Advocate, pursuit and protect performance and accessibility of the websites we make
- Ensure cross-browser, cross-device and cross-platform compatibility
- Build award-winning novel web experience
- Implement aesthetic and fancy design from tools such as Figma, Sketch and Photoshop
- Polish pixel perfect UI with relentless attention to detail
- Complement with engaging interactions and delightful animations
- Achieve great marketing impacts with a variety of client partners
- Deliver within ambitious timeline with fast pace when necessary
Accolades awarded during the time at Jam3
- NFB data visualization with COVID-19 related Tweets: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (see it live)
- Webby People's Voice Winner in the NetArt category
- FWA of the day － November 4, 2020
- CSS Design Awards Website of the day － December 3, 2020
- ADCC Awards: Silver in Website Animation & Motion, Bronze in Website Design and Creative Data
- Google Cloud showcase demo: Healthcare-Grade Secure Cloud (see it live)
- FWA of the day － November 21, 2020
- Awwwards Site Of The Day and Developer Site － December 18, 2020
- CSS Design Awards Website of the day & Website of the year nominee － December 20, 2020
- Twitter Culture & Conversations (see it live)
- FWA of the day － March 26, 2020
Sheridan College, September 2015 － April 2016
- Graduate with High Honors
- Focus on front end web development
- Study also UX/UI design, backend development
- Guide and help classmates as peer tutor
Humber College, September 2013 － May 2015
- Graduate with Honors
- Start doing web development self-taught