Senior Software Engineer · AI-Augmented, Full-Stack-Leaning
Taichung, Taiwan
Senior software engineer with 7+ years shipping production React and TypeScript applications and websites, now working as an AI-augmented developer building real, ambitious projects with Claude Code. Front-end is home base, with capabilities across the stack (Node, Postgres, Docker, and self-hosted infrastructure). A background in the biological sciences brings analytical rigor to messy problems. Open to remote full-time or freelance roles with startups worldwide.
Skills
- Front-end:TypeScript, React, Astro, Tailwind, MDX, Zustand, Tanstack Query, React Hook Form, Zod, MapLibre, Emotion / CSS-in-JS
- Back-end & Infra:Node, Postgres, MySQL, Nginx, Docker, Self-hosted VPS
- AI & Agentic:Claude Code, Cursor, Subagents & multi-agent workflows, Embeddings, Transformers.js
- Tooling & Testing:Vite, Vitest, Playwright, Storybook, ESLint, Figma, i18n, Git
Experience
Independent, AI-Augmented Software Engineer
October 2025–Present- Reoriented my practice around agentic engineering: shipping real projects end-to-end with Claude Code and Cursor, authoring custom subagents, MCP servers, slash-command skills, and multi-agent workflows
- Designed and built synapticism.com, an Astro + Tailwind v4 publication with a custom content pipeline (Remark/Rehype plugins, MDX components) held to a strong accessibility and performance bar
- Developed repeatable AI-augmented workflows for research, code review, and design iteration that compound the output of a solo developer
- Provisioned and operated self-hosted production infrastructure on a single VPS with Docker, Nginx, and Postgres
Crescendo Lab, Senior Front-end Engineer
November 2021–October 2025- Designed and implemented a node-based workflow automation canvas and accompanying performance dashboard with ReactFlow
- Built a marketing analytics dashboard with interactive data visualizations and large, sortable data tables
- Modernized a large legacy React codebase through incremental adoption of TypeScript, ESLint, Zod, and a typed RESTful API contract
- Worked closely with product designers in Figma; shipped UI faithful to mockups and pushed back to refine unworkable requirements
- Established reusable component patterns and design-system foundations with Emotion, Storybook, and Chromatic
Projects
Spectral Codex: Interactive geospatial database and travel photography journal
GitHub- Large-scale (10,000+ page) Astro project built with Tailwind V4
- React-based mapping layer with clustering and filtering built with MapLibre GL, Protomaps, Duck DB, and Overture Maps
- Integrated a custom image proxy server with Nginx caching and Docker deployment to drastically reduce build times
- Vector-based content recommendations using embeddings derived from Transformers.js
- Custom Remark/Rehype plugins and MDX components for advanced content authoring and hyperlinking
Education
University of Toronto: B.Sc., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology / Physical and Environmental Geography