Ericsson Liu
Software Engineer at Xero
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEricsson Liu is a software engineer with seven years of experience building user-facing web applications and backend services, currently working at Xero in Waterloo. He combines front-end expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the Mattermost webapp like richer paste handling and channel shortcuts—with backend work in Go for microservices such as a customer support chatbot. His background spans startups and scaleups, including shipping a FinTech mobile app from scratch with React and automating document scraping at Hubdoc. A University of Waterloo computer science graduate, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a strong testing mindset, having added both unit and e2e tests to ensure reliable feature delivery. An interesting throughline is his fluency across the stack: he moves between Angular/React front ends and Go-backed services, enabling faster cross-team iterations.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Henry Wise Wood High SchoolBachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (15)
mattermost10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
cypress9
css8
html8
rails-i18n7
testing7
i18n-js7
ember-i18n7
jestjs6
fest5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/mattermost-webapp
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Archived web app of Mattermost. Moved to the monorepo: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ericsson primarily contributed to the Mattermost web application's front-end, focusing on improving the user experience and functionality. They implemented features like a shortcut to toggle unread/all channels and enhanced the rich text editor by enabling hyperlink and table formatting on paste. Additionally, the user added unit tests and e2e tests to ensure the correct behavior of their contributions. Their work involved modifying existing components and adding new functionalities, demonstrating a strong understanding of the codebase.
mattermostmonorepo
minhqto/HTN2021
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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