Vincentius Kuswara
Frontend Engineer, Tiktok Search at TikTok
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolVincentius Kuswara is a pragmatic frontend engineer and builder with 4 years of experience, currently shaping search experiences at TikTok. He combines strong product instincts with hands-on proficiency in TypeScript, React, Python and cloud platforms, and is known for shipping production-ready features rapidly. As an early engineer at HeroUI (NextUI) he optimized core components with list virtualization—cutting INP from seconds to sub-millisecond—and contributed to a UI library with millions of monthly downloads. Vincentius has founded and led AI-first startups (UImagine, OneLLM) and built enterprise GenAI tooling at Singtel, giving him rare founder-to-product-engineer breadth. Based in Singapore and finishing a CS degree at SUTD/UBC, he pairs system-design depth with a people-first leadership style that prioritizes delightful user experiences.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science and Design, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science and Design at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English, Indonesian
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
component-library10
react10
virtualization10
typescript-types9
ui-components9
typescript9
component-kit9
typescripts9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
heroui-inc/heroui
Nov 2024 - Jan 2025
🚀 Beautiful, fast and modern React UI library. (Previously NextUI)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Vincentius primarily focused on enhancing the React UI library, specifically implementing virtualization features within the listbox and select components. The contributions involve integrating the virtualized listbox into the select component, adding new properties, and updating documentation to include the API for virtualization. Further work includes fixing type errors, code block errors, and updating test cases to accommodate virtualized elements, improving the library's performance and user experience with large datasets.
nextuireactreactjscomponent-library
vinroger/vinroger
Nov 2021 - Sep 2025
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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