Taipei City, Taiwan

Bruno Andersen Chen

Senior developer and yet junior technical manager.
8 years experience in different aspects of B2B software development.

Major strength of characteristic include thoughtful, action-oriented, open-minded, and down-to-earth.

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Work Experience

Splashtop, Senior Frontend Engineer, March 2020 ~

As an integral part of Cloud department, bone up to makeover existing web console in an eclectic way:

Discuss considerations with different audiences, including designers, engineers, management roles and other stakeholders.
Evangelize to survey, Integrate toolsets, and provide high-quality programs.
Ensure fast and sustainable development based on current staffing level.
Pick and utilize the best practices among cutting edge web-side solutions with TypeScript, Next.js, Immer and Xstate.

Also, in a position to manage and grow our frontend team:

Seek qualified candidates to build out a team of talented collaborators.
Improve upon processes and workflow by automation and interpersonal skills.
Make and be held accountable for technical decisions. Explain them inwards.
Lead execution for team deliverable and advocate for members to help them grow in professional development and remove roadblocks or problems in the way.
Enhance qualitative goals accomplishment, coordinating across organization.

UDI, Senior Software Engineer, Oct 2019 ~ March 2020

As a Senior Developer in the e-commerce branch of United Daily News Group, supported Frontend Team Lead to manage up and down.

Coordinated 4+ internal developers, 1 designer and 2 collaborators from outsourcing.
Built new platform's frontend system and maintained adjunct operation dashboards.
Determined the frontend structure, introduce new language feature implementation; Produced documents regarding procedures and technical communication.
Prescreened resumes, and participated in the interview processes to identify potential candidates.
Enlightened entry-level members to craft basic components by themselves, such as carousel with fade or slide effect.

Tagtoo, Frontend Engineer, Feb 2017 ~ Jun 2019

As a frontend developer in a team of 10 people and the task force for different projects.

Maintained blog system and created the event page for new business on our website.
Held project ownership on client side of total solution platform AdChief for dynamic product ads through and through, built that with Next.js, React.js, Styled-components, and GraphQL from early planning, and have encouraged teamwork.

Big Data Center in Finance and Banking - NKFUST,
User Experience Designer, Sep 2016 ~ Feb 2017

As a project-oriented facilitator in team of 5 people.

Helped students to analyze university scenery with persona and wireframes, and made prototypes for improving comprehension.
Introduced new technologies to university students like: ReactJS.
Picked tech stack according to environment limits. For example, I chose Laravel 5.2 as main web framework because PHP version on the server was 5.5.x.
Developed web and mobile applications for academic research and applying subsidy from Ministry of Science and Technology.

Yajia Tech, Web Interaction Designer, Mar 2016 ~ Sep 2016

As a product designer, work closely with system analyst to gain user insights, identify opportunities, validate concepts, socialize ideas across the team, and manage full design process from analyzing business problems to designing solutions and supporting throughout the implementation.

Effectively communicated, and built consensus around concepts and direction.
Drew wireframes based on conception and feedback.
Gathered mockups from VA, created prototypes and shared with stakeholders.
Embellished regular tasks with micro interactions.

Ablerex Electronics, Associate Software Engineer, July 2013 ~ Feb 2016

As a member of research and development center, testing software part of our products with hardware and firmware teammates.

Built dashboard website to present gathering indications in charts.
Maintained and renewed desktop applications connected multiple electrical apparatus, such as UPS and solar inverter.
Improved workflow for factory report handling different document format.
Used Raspberry Pi as device simulator, reduce engineering change and rework.

Skills

Build up and faciliate our team across hybrid environments.
Handle ambiguous information and break it down into something others can understand.
Incubate, affect, contribute, and finally handover go-to-market products.
Totally, embracing constraint to get balance between pragmatism and perfectionism.

Eduction

NCKU, B.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering, 2009 ~ 2013

Graduation Project
Finding the minimal logic difference for functional ECO, for 2012 CAD Contest at ICCAD.

Projects

AdChief

Build SaaS for dynamic product ads to handle B2B communication.
Dynamically update products feeds and deliver ads to target audience.
Also, Hide the complexity of dashboard in Google Ads and Facebook Business, and provide simplified interface toward clients.
Make easy to create AD templates by drag and drop.

Renew website of Taiwan Styrene Monomer Corp.

Renewed the design and improve SEO of its official website in 2016.

Petition Sheet Generator

Contribute to open source online tool for generating public issue petition sheets and exporting to PDF for printing.

We use existing copy as the background image to fit government format requirement.

Foodsmart

Foodsmart is foodstuff and grocery delivery corporation.
I designed then did prototyping the mobile application for wholesale ordering.