Xingchen Hong
MTS 2 at PayPal
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolXingchen Hong is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of web development experience and a deep passion for user experience, currently an MTS 2 at PayPal in Fremont, CA. At Apple, he architected core iWork server features, led performance optimization and reliability improvements, and steered a real-time document collaboration feature alongside upgraded internal testing and reporting tooling. As Lead Frontend Engineer at Onfleet, he modernized a large-scale dashboard to a modular TypeScript stack, implemented virtualization and lazy loading for performance, and strengthened testing to boost developer confidence and reliability. His early career spans rapid web app prototyping at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and hands-on web development and SEO at smaller startups, grounding him in both research and production web ecosystems. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from UIUC and is based in the Bay Area, where he combines hands-on coding with cross-functional leadership and mentorship to deliver scalable, data-informed software.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
13reputation
253reached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (200)
zero-configuration10
realtime10
storybook10
material-components10
testing10
material-design-lite10
microfrontend10
render10
docker-desktop10
javascript10
theming10
modularity10
tidy10
html10
maps10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Zodiase/my-inventory-app
Oct 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:41 PRs, 84 pushes, 33 branches in 9 months
openskope/skope-development
Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
Contains everything needed for developing the skope platform.
Contributions:24 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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