Kris Chen

Kris Chen

Senior Frontend Engineer | 10 Years Experience

Experienced frontend engineer specializing in architecting large-scale web applications. Proficient in modern tech stacks including Vue, React, Node.js, and Docker. Currently seeking remote work opportunities.

About Me

Professional Summary

10 years of frontend experience, specializing in architecting large-scale web applications. Proficient in modern tech stacks including Vue, React, Node.js, and Docker. Experienced in leading technical projects, optimizing performance, and establishing best practices for development teams.

Core Competencies

Technical Architecture

Designed and implemented scalable frontend architectures for high-traffic applications handling millions of daily requests. Expert in BFF patterns, microservices, and containerization.

Performance Optimization

Led performance optimization initiatives resulting in 50%+ improvements in page load times and 99.99% SLA stability. Implemented comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems.

Cross-Platform Development

Developed unified SDKs supporting Web, App, and Mini Programs, reducing development time by 70% and enabling one-codebase-multiple-platform deployment.

Technical Skills

Frontend Technologies

  • Vue.js (2 & 3)95%
  • React/Next.js90%
  • TypeScript90%
  • JavaScript/ES6+95%
  • CSS/LESS/Sass90%

Backend Technologies

  • Node.js90%
  • Koa.js/Express.js/Hono.js85%
  • RESTful API Design90%
  • BFF Architecture90%
  • Microservices85%

DevOps & Tools

  • Docker90%
  • Jenkins85%
  • Webpack/Vite85%
  • Monitoring & Alerting85%
  • Git90%

Work Experience

SenseTime

Frontend Engineer (Remote Technical Advisor) | Feb 2025 - Present

Since February 2025, I have worked as a remote technical advisor on frontend development for SenseTime's Raccoon AI product series, covering task planning technical selection and MVP delivery, main project diagnosis and optimization, version upgrades, browser compatibility governance, and daily feature iteration.

AI Task Planning Feature

Responsible for technical selection and MVP development of the task planning feature, including solutions for handling incomplete JSON

  • Built a task planning visualization system with React Flow, supporting custom nodes and connection validation
  • Designed a character-level incremental JSON parser that extracts fields in real time from incomplete SSE streams, enabling a typewriter-style display

Main Project Technical Governance and Architecture Optimization

Addressed technical debt and quality issues accumulated over long-term iteration; coordinated with the team's monorepo consolidation to govern code quality, upgrade the tech stack, optimize browser compatibility, and standardize the project development system

  • Established code quality governance: built quantitative scoring and tiered rating standards, implemented automated checks, unified project code conventions, making code quality measurable and manageable
  • Completed full project tech stack upgrade: aligned with the team to unify the technology system, led a major core framework version upgrade, completed remediation, full testing, and release, standardizing project technical standards
  • Optimized browser adaptation experience: defined compatibility scope based on real user data, completed targeted compatibility work, added version upgrade prompts for legacy devices, ensuring stable user access
  • Drove overall project optimization: identified existing issues and prioritized improvements, delivered a complete remediation plan, collaborated with the team on implementation, effectively improving project stability and future iteration efficiency

Daily Business Requirements Development

Responsible for frontend development and launch of daily business requirements

  • Completed feature and commercialization adaptation for SaaS and ToB versions
  • Delivered education edition membership-related features
  • Served as RO (responsible owner) for operational campaign development and launches

Gaoding Technology Co., Ltd.

Senior Frontend Engineer | July 2020 - July 2024

Commercial System Architecture Optimization

Led architecture optimization for commercial purchasing system handling 50,000+ daily visits

  • Engineered unified cross-platform SDK, boosting development efficiency by 70%
  • Decoupled commercialization module for independent deployment
  • Results: 7% increase in business conversion rate

Core Rendering Service Upgrade

Revamped core Server-Side Rendering service managing 4M+ daily requests

  • Implemented service governance using Node.js Cluster, stabilizing CPU usage at 10-20%
  • Established comprehensive monitoring and alerting system with 95% test coverage
  • Results: Reduced incident response time from 1 hour to 1 minute, maintaining 99.99% SLA

SEO Technical Standardization

Pioneered company's first technical evaluation framework for SEO

  • Increased core pages responding under 500ms from 40% to 90%
  • Ensured 99.99% success rate for search engine crawlers
  • Transformed abstract SEO goals into quantifiable technical metrics

DevOps System Construction

Led migration to containerized CI/CD pipeline

  • Migrated to GitHub, Kubernetes, and Docker-based deployment
  • Optimized build process, saving 21,000 minutes of build time annually
  • Standardized API specifications, significantly improving code maintainability

Shenzhen Sitianjichuang Education Technology Co., Ltd.

Frontend Engineer | Dec 2018 - July 2020

Independently designed and implemented a code conversion system bridging visual block-based programming, JavaScript, and Python. The system resulted in an invention patent (CN110941432A) and its open-source scaffold gained over 100 GitHub stars. This feature became a core competitive advantage for the company's educational products.

Tongyin Investment Group

Frontend Engineer | July 2016 - September 2018

As a core developer, led the refactoring of the company's official website and WeChat e-commerce store to Vue 2. Implemented a decoupled frontend-backend architecture, enhancing user experience and serving over 6,000 cumulative users.

Open Source Projects

ying-web

ying-web

24+ Stars

Complete full-stack development scaffold project with Monorepo architecture using PNPM + Turborepo

Technologies:

ReactNext.jsKoa.jsTypeScriptTailwindCSS
View on GitHub

ying-template

ying-template

100+ Stars

Ready-to-use frontend project template with comprehensive tooling and best practices

Technologies:

VueWebpackTypeScriptJest
View on GitHub

ying-datastructures-algorithms

ying-datastructures-algorithms

55+ Stars

Algorithm and data structure learning repository using TypeScript for frontend developers

Technologies:

TypeScriptData StructuresAlgorithmsJest
View on GitHub

Contact Me

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If you're interested in my experience and abilities, feel free to contact me through any of these channels:

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