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Hi, I'm Maxwell Alexius!

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Passionated Front-End Developer which has both experience on working in the office and working as a contractor remotely.

Eagers to dedicate time to improve the programming skills, diving deep into JavaScript, learning from design patterns and from building the tools from scratch.

Appreciates the art of coding and values maintainability as an important role in developing projects and products.

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Career Experience

  • Freelance Front-End Engineer

    Jul. 2018 - Jun. 2019

    Environmental Management Consultant Technologies, Inc.

    VueJSNuxt FrameworkGovernment ProjectData VisualizationBrowser CompatibilitySSR
    • Negotiation skills developed while also understand the client's needs.
    • Worked on two government projects using VueJS and Nuxt framework
    • Both Front-End projects are built independently
    • Support IE > 11

  • Intern. Front-End & Data Visualization Engineer

    Nov. 2017 - Jan. 2019

    Umbo Computer Vision, Inc.

    ReactJSSVGHTML5 CanvasData VisualizationAnimationPresentationGo LangGraphQL
    • Built a data visualization tool for showing the images' ground-truth and metrices by using Radar charts
    • Helped maintain Front-end projects including the data visualization and data labelling platform
    • Visualizes the evaluation results of trained model using Line charts with Animation
    • Refactor and helped upgrade the model demo site for Sales & Marketing team
    • Held internal share about asynchronous programming in JavaScript including the ES6 Promise and ES7 Async-Await feature
    • Held internal share about GraphQL 101 and use Go Lang. to demonstrate GraphQL Go

  • Contractor. Fullstack Engineer

    Aug. 2017 - Oct. 2017

    5xRuby, Inc.

    RubyRuby on Rails
    • Use `tenant` gem to realize multitenancy in Ruby on Rails
    • Has experience working remotely

  • Intern. Ruby on Rails Developer

    Mar. 2017 - Jul. 2017

    5xRuby, Inc.

    RubyRuby on RailsReactJSHTML5 & CSS3Functional ProgrammingGo LangOpen Source ProjectPresentation
    • Learned basics of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and Ruby on Rails
    • Helped build the internal HR management system with Rails
    • Learned the basic concept of functional programming
    • Contributed an open source project, Goby Lang, which is another programming language compiled by Go but has a Ruby-like syntax with Go's concurrency feature
    • Attended SITCON Hong Kong 2017 as a speaker and talked about contributing open-source projects experience

  • Intern. Back-End Engineer

    Jul. 2016 - Aug. 2016

    Potentia Computer, Inc.

    PHPCodeIgniter 3ReactJS
    • Learned the MVC framework - PHP CodeIgniter 3
    • Helped build the system which manages the backend of the company product
    • Present ReactJS 101 for colleagues

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JavaScript
JS

JavaScript

  • Has 3 years of experience working with Client-side JavaScript
  • ReactJS with following tools: Redux / React-Router / Redux-Saga / Reselect
  • VueJS with following tools: Vue-Router / Vuex
  • Has experience developing desktop applications using Electron
  • Has experience giving a presentation about ES6 Generators / Promise & ES7 Async-Await and public speech related to functional programming and RxJS
  • Knows the advanced concept of JavaScript such as variable scopes, closure, function binding, IIFE, and the “this” keyword
  • Knows how to use JQuery and how to not to use JQuery (Vanilla JavaScript)
  • Knows how to send HTTP requests using Axios or Fetch API
  • Knows the syntax and concepts of ECMAScript:
    • ES6 “var” v.s. “let” v.s. “const”, Arrow Functions, Promise, Destructuring, Class … etc.
    • ES6 metaprogramming features: Symbols, Proxy & Reflect
    • ES7 Async-Await & Rest-Spread Operator
    • ES8 Async Iterator & for-await-of Loop
  • Knows the concept of polyfill and the prototype chain
  • Knows the concept of TDD and have experience with writing unit tests using AvaJS or Mocha
  • Has a basic understanding of Webpack and its configuration
  • Knows how to create and publish NPM / Yarn package
  • Knows how to use HTML5 Canvas and SVG using SnapSVG
  • Knows how to realize the condition a === 1 && a === 2 && a === 3 in JavaScript
JS
HTML5
HTML5

HTML5

  • Knows the basics of HTML5 and also have experience using the W3C HTML Validator
  • Knows how to use HTML5 Canvas
  • Knows how to use SVG elements
CSS3
CSS3

CSS3

  • Knows the basics of CSS3 and also have experience using the W3C CSS Validator
  • Knows the basics of RWD and able to layout the webpage from scratch (without using Bootstrap)
  • Knows the CSS transform/keyframes features
  • Knows how to program CSS using Scss/Sass
Go Lang.
Go Lang.

Go Lang.

  • Knows the basic syntax of using Go Lang.
  • Understands the difference between concurrency & parallel
  • Has contributed GitHub open source project - Goby Programming Language
  • Has given a public speech related to contributing to open source project - Goby
  • Has experience working with GraphQL Go
Ruby Lang.
Ruby Lang.

Ruby Lang.

  • Has experience working using Ruby on Rails and knows how to use the gems in Rails
  • Knows the concept and the MVC framework design from Ruby on Rails
  • Knows and enjoys the metaprogramming feature of Ruby
Python Lang.
Python Lang.

Python Lang.

  • Knows the basic syntax of Python Lang.
  • Has experience using NumPy / Matplotlib
  • Knows some machine algorithm including Linear Regression / (Convolutional) Neural Network
  • Has experience developing projects or applications such as Scikit-Learn, and the basics of Tensorflow
Git
Git

Git

  • Knows how the Git-Flow works
  • Knows what I am doing when force pushing the codes and never tries to attempt danger actions on the “master” (or “dev”) branch!
Haskell Lang.
Haskell Lang.

Haskell Lang.

  • Knows the basics of functional programming including pattern matching / immutability / recursive programming … etc
  • Knows some concept of abstract data types such as Folds / Monad / Ord / Setoid / Functor
SQL
SQL

SQL

  • Knows the basic SQL syntax
  • Has experience working with SQLite, MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL
About Software Engineering
Software Engineering

About Software Engineering

  • Knows and has experience with some design patterns and implemented in projects such as the factory/observer/iterator pattern etc.
  • Knows the common software design conventions such as DRY (Don’t repeat yourself) / CoC (Convention over configuration) / Separation of concerns / Decoupling … etc
  • Knows the machine learning algorithm: Linear Regression / basic Neural Network / Convolutional Neural Networks
  • Knows the process of code compilation: Lexer (Tokenizer) / Parser / Code Generation

Public Speech Experiences

  • 跨越時間軸 - 創造美好使用者體驗 (Travel Through Timeline - Realizing Graceful User Experience)

    SITCON Taiwan, Taipei 2018

    Taipei, Taiwan

    Chinese

    March 10th, 2018

  • Welcome the Brand New Ruby-like Language - Goby

    SITCON Hong Kong 2017

    Hong Kong, China

    English

    October 2nd, 2017