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Wenchen (Neo) Li – Pragmatic Perfectionist: Front-End Engineer Crafting Marketing Websites
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Wenchen (Neo) Li – Pragmatic Perfectionist: Front-End Engineer Crafting Marketing Websites
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/neo/resume
- Owner: neo
- Created: 2017-01-18T03:09:36.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-06T13:30:55.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-08-20T15:02:01.082Z (10 months ago)
- Topics: front-end-developer, front-end-engineer, react, resume
- Language: SCSS
- Homepage: https://neo.github.io/resume/
- Size: 81.1 KB
- Stars: 4
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: readme.md
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---
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title: Wenchen Li
---
### [GitHub](https://github.com/neo) – [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wenchen-li/)
## Expertise
**Languages:** HTML, CSS (SCSS), JavaScript (ES2015+), TypeScript, and Python 3
**Libraries:** React (with Redux, Next.js and Gatsby), Angular 4+ (with RxJS and NgRx) and GSAP
**Tools:** Git, Node.js, Storybook, Dockerfile, Terraform, GCP, AWS, and headless CMS
## Experience
### Jam3 _([FWA Club 100](https://thefwa.com/news/fwa-club-100-welcomes-jam3))_
_**Senior Front End Developer**, Feb 2022 － Present_
_**Front End Developer**, March 2017 － Feb 2022_
_**Junior Developer**, October 2016 － March 2017 (Internship)_
- Lead within the department in various ways
- Lead development of client projects with teams of 3 ~ 6+ developers for the duration ranging from 3 weeks to 3+ months – analyze, divide, delegate, supervise and consolidate work
- Design, architect and integrate front-end with CMS, API and build systems
- Guide and help as the subject matter expert of Git, TypeScript, Angular and React Hooks
- Mentor and conduct interview with students from the Waterloo co-op program
- Provide empathetic and educative code reviews and sign off as the final reviewer
- Contribute to the [React boilerplate](https://github.com/Jam3/nextjs-boilerplate) used by almost every project in the company
- Initiate the transition to TypeScript with 4-year effort of persistent pitching
- Spearhead the discussion and transition to a static pre-rendering React framework
- Adopt the React Hooks pattern when first released and expand adoption company-wide
- Collaborate across disciplines
- Nurture, evaluate and validate features, creative concepts and ideas
- Work with designers as a team on a daily basis to maximize the ideal outcome
- Ask the right questions, clarify requirements, anticipate unknown risks, estimate known tasks and manage expectations and priorities
- Understand the goals from internal and external stakeholders to balance the needs and get the best result with limited resources
- Strive for a high standard of code quality (sometimes compulsively)
- Advocate and help enforce idiomatic patterns, best practices and internal conventions
- Keep the codebase healthy, maintainable and scalable with a clean and robust architecture
- Advocate, pursuit and protect performance and accessibility of the websites we make
- Build award-winning novel web experience
- Implement aesthetic UI design, engaging interactions and delightful animations with a relentless "pixel perfect" level of attention to detail
- Deliver within ambitious timeline with fast pace when necessary, and achieve great marketing impacts with a variety of client partners
Accolades awarded during the time at Jam3
- Wild Cities: a voice-activated interactive AR story our symbiotic relationship with nature ([download from micro-site](https://wildcities.app))
- Webby [Nominee](https://winners.webbyawards.com/2022/apps-and-software/mobile-ott-app-features/best-use-of-augmented-reality/218254/wild-cities) in the [Best Use of Augmented Reality](https://winners.webbyawards.com/winners/apps-and-software/mobile-ott-app-features/best-use-of-augmented-reality?years=0) category 2022
- ADCC Awards: Bronze in [Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality](https://theadcc.ca/archive/wild-cities_2022_bronze_augmented-reality-virtual-reality)
- [FWA of the day](https://thefwa.com/cases/wild-cities)
- ComplexLand 2020: fashion e-commerce in a open 3D WebGL world like a role play game ([watch how it went](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBPVGAVnsbA))
- ADCC Awards: Bronze in [Websites](https://theadcc.ca/archive/complexland_2021_bronze_websites)
- [FWA of the day](https://thefwa.com/cases/complexland)
- [NFB](https://www.nfb.ca/interactive/yesterday/ "National Film Board of Canada") data visualization with COVID-19 related Tweets: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow ([see it live](https://yesterday.nfb.ca/))
- Webby [People's Voice Winner](https://winners.webbyawards.com/2021/websites-and-mobile-sites/general-websites-and-mobile-sites/netart/172346/yesterday-today-tomorrow) in the [NetArt](https://winners.webbyawards.com/winners/websites-and-mobile-sites/general-websites-and-mobile-sites/netart?years=1) category 2021
- ADCC Awards: Silver in [Website Animation & Motion](https://theadcc.ca/archive/nfb-covid_2021_silver_website-animation-motion), Bronze in [Website Design](https://theadcc.ca/archive/nfb-covid_2021_bronze_website-design) and [Creative Data](https://theadcc.ca/archive/nfb-covid_2021_bronze_creative-data)
- [FWA of the day](https://thefwa.com/cases/yesterday-today-tomorrow)
- CSS Design Awards [Website of the day](https://www.cssdesignawards.com/sites/yesterday-today-tomorrow/38071/)
- Google Cloud showcase demo: Healthcare-Grade Secure Cloud ([see it live](https://showcase.withgoogle.com/healthcare-security/))
- [FWA of the day](https://thefwa.com/cases/google-cloud-demos-healthcare)
- Awwwards [Site Of The Day](https://www.awwwards.com/sites/google-cloud-demos-healthcare) and Developer Site
- CSS Design Awards [Website of the day](https://www.cssdesignawards.com/sites/google-cloud-demos-healthcare/38190/) & [Website of the year nominee](https://cssdesignawards.com/woty2020/sites/google-cloud-demos-healthcare)
- Twitter Culture & Conversations ([see it live](https://marketing.twitter.com/en/culture-and-conversations#/))
- [FWA of the day](https://thefwa.com/cases/twitter-culture-conversations)
- Levi's Wynwood: Activation in Miami ([watch how it went](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy_6V7DDVQI))
- [FWA of the day](https://thefwa.com/cases/levis-wynwood-p2)
## Education
### Interactive Media Management
_**Sheridan College**, September 2015 － April 2016_
- Graduate with High Honors
- Focus on front end web development
- Study also UX/UI design, backend development
- Guide and help classmates as peer tutor
### Business Marketing
_**Humber College**, September 2013 － May 2015_
- Graduate with Honors
- Start doing web development self-taught