Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Senior UI Engineer on LinkedIn Jobs • Technical lead for the LinkedIn Careers Apply team, who owns Easy Apply and several other high-visibility products used by millions of job seekers globally. • Led multi-quarter cross-functional projects to revamp and rewrite the core job application flow across multiple LinkedIn platforms to increase scalability and improve user experience. • Collaborated with stakeholders across R&D to develop and launch Apply Connect, a brand new ATS integration being adopted by several leading Applicant Tracking Systems. • Identified opportunities to increase code quality and led initiatives to streamline codebase, reduce technical debt, and meet web accessibility standards.
UI Engineer on LinkedIn Jobs • Owned the frontend development of several products to enhance the job seeking experience on LinkedIn.com. • Collaborated closely with other engineers, product managers, and designers to launch and iterate on high-visibility products used by millions of members globally. • Focused on writing state-of-the-art code to keep the site secure, performant and accessible while delivering a world class experience.
• Worked on an open-source hackathon registration system used by thousands of applicants. • Developed several user-facing applications with a small team of developers to enhance the experience of hundreds of attendees. • Built internal tools to empower organizers to execute various logistical tasks more efficiently.
• Developed a web application modeled after Craigslist that showcases the capabilities of Apache AsterixDB, a big data management system developed at UC Irvine. • Designed the application architecture as well as the user interface of the app. https://github.com/chriswongtv/peterslist
• Built a job recommendation carousel on LinkedIn Jobs’ home page. • Led the project through its entire development lifecycle and worked with product managers and business analysts to launch the feature. • Focused on writing clean, optimal and maintainable code with elaborative test cases that scale as the member base grows.