CHULIYING

Frontend-Focused Full-Stack Engineer

Chu Liying
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ABOUT

I studied commercial design and have built for the web for 10+ years, across media, e-commerce, arts, and energy. I bring a designer's eye for detail and an engineer's logic to the same problem.

Frontend is my focus, and lately that means putting AI inside real products. I built a travel agency's CRM from data model to AI assistant, and co-develop the Rust agent runtime behind my company's energy platform chat. I also wrote skill-commons to keep AI-assisted development reviewable.

EXPERIENCE

HDRenewablesR&D Assistant Manager / Frontend Lead2024–Present
  • -Lead the frontend team for a multi-module energy platform; designed its configuration-driven routing and layout system with the backend team, cutting a new dashboard page from about two weeks to two days
  • -Built the platform's AI assistant end to end: identity forwarding, one streaming path, and sanitized model output
  • -Co-develop the Rust agent runtime behind it; authored its input-processing and per-user permission layers
  • -Line-manage four frontend engineers; lead planning, task allocation, and code review, and stay hands-on in production debugging
  • -Drive adoption of AI-assisted development across a product team of about 35 (not direct reports)
  • -Built a shared quality kit, added as a Git submodule, that keeps every route including logged-in pages under Lighthouse and gates pull requests on performance and accessibility baselines
EcosTekSenior Frontend Engineer2023–2024
  • -Built and maintained storefront and admin workflows for around 100 client accounts, integrating payment, logistics, and inventory systems
  • -Developed subscriptions, promotions, preorders, and a Shopee migration dashboard; added Cypress checks for promotion rules
  • -Planned frontend sprints, assigned work, and reviewed code
Brewing ArtsFull-Stack Engineer2021–2023
  • -Took the platform from concept to launch as its sole product designer and full-stack engineer
  • -Designed the content schema in Hygraph, a headless CMS, and built the Next.js frontend on its GraphQL API, with static generation and SEO for editorial content
  • -Set up hosting and deployment on Google Cloud
Independent ProjectsFreelance Product Designer / Frontend Engineer2020–2021
  • -Independently designed and built websites for clients, from the first layouts to the production frontend
The News LensFrontend Engineer2015–2020
  • -Worked on product planning, UX, and frontend development for a high-traffic bilingual media platform, including branded editorial sites and native advertising
  • -Independently took new brand sites from product planning and visual design through frontend implementation

EDUCATION

Ming Chuan University
Commercial Design · 2012

ENGINEERING PROJECTS

Travel Agency CRM & AI Assistant

A side project I built solo for my family's travel agency, now in production: numbers come from SQL, AI answers cite evidence, and PostgreSQL row-level security scopes access. 93.4% routing accuracy on a hidden set; read-only demo on synthetic data.

Live demo ↗Architecture →Evaluation report →

Energy Platform Frontend

Lead the frontend team for a configuration-driven energy BI platform where layout changes need no redeploy, and built its AI assistant on the Rust agent runtime I co-develop.

Architecture →

skill-commons

Open-source workflow kit I created for AI-assisted development: completion counts only when a re-runnable check accepts it.

GitHub ↗

DESIGN & FRONTEND CRAFT

  • taigitaitsiaplik

    Independently designed and built a PTS Taigi event site for 16 films and 40 screenings across three cities, with a 3D exhibition averaging 16.68 ms per frame that falls back to natural scrolling on mobile.

    View Live Site ↗

  • SGT

    Independently designed and built a trilingual site for a screenwriters' association, setting typography and page structure for long-form reading; editors maintain translations in a spreadsheet.

    View Live Site ↗

  • Against Again Troupe

    Designed the theatre company's visual system and UX, then independently built its bilingual Next.js site on a Hygraph CMS.

    View Live Site ↗