Summary
Lucas Huang is a Senior Frontend Engineer with nine years of experience building production web apps and component libraries, now based in Greater Montreal and currently at Quo. He led frontend initiatives at Shopify—driving Shopify-hosted video support and building the Shopify Planet app—and has a track record of shipping internationalization, accessibility-conscious Vue and React migrations, and subscription product features. Comfortable as a tech lead and mentor, he’s written widely-read guidance on frontend i18n best practices and routinely coaches new hires and junior engineers. His background spans product-focused companies (PremiumBeat, Peerio) and public-sector media (National Film Board), and he brings a rare mix of design-minded craft from years of freelance work plus formal training in biology, mathematics, and education. Not all his work is public—most of his GitHub contributions are to private repos—yet his public projects emphasize reusable UI systems and privacy-respecting telemetry.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Independent Video Game Design, Independent Video Game Design at Dawson College
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Honours with Distinction Biology major Mathematics general, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Honours with Distinction Biology major Mathematics general at Queen's University
English, French