Li Tan

Staff Frontend Engineer at Bellmont Financial · Web frontends · GraphQL, CSS

Bellmont Financial

Melbourne, Australia · AEST (UTC+10)

9+ years experience

Waseda University

English, German

Open to work

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Overview

I work on web frontends at Bellmont Financial in Melbourne. Grew the web team from 4 to 40 engineers. Led the migration of 32 services to accessibility. Before that: Ayala Corporation and Naver. Most at home with GraphQL and CSS.

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accessibilityGraphQLCSSNext.jsReact

Open to workLooking for a role

closes in 3 months

Next role: Frontend Engineer in marketplaces, Melbourne or hybrid

Target roles: Frontend Engineer
Level: Mid
Industries: Developer tools, Climate tech
Work mode: Hybrid
Available: 60 days notice
Work authorization: Authorized to work in Australia
What I'm looking for: Hands-on work on CSS with room to mentor.
Not interested in: Contract-only roles

9 years in web frontends. Strongest at CSS and Next.js. Can start in about six weeks.

Melbourne, Australiareactaccessibilitygraphql

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Experience

Staff Frontend Engineer
Jun 2022 - Present
Bellmont Financial · 4 yr 4 mo · Contract · Melbourne, Australia
- Cut the main bundle by 67% and got LCP under 1.5 seconds.
- Grew the web team from 4 to 26 engineers.
- Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion.
Frontend Engineer
Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
Ayala Corporation · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
- Wrote the GraphQL service that now handles 88 million requests a day.
- Shipped 13 launches on the web team without a rollback.
Frontend Engineer
Aug 2018 - Apr 2021
Naver · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
- Cut the main bundle by 36% and got LCP under 1.2 seconds.
- Cut p99 latency on the web services from 581ms to 172ms.
Frontend Engineer
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
Westpac · 10 mo · Contract · Melbourne, Australia
- Moved 76% of web traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Cut p99 latency on the web services from 853ms to 104ms.

Projects

Open-source accessibility toolkit

2025

A small library for web frontends that 452 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

Waseda University
BA, Information Technology
2013 - 2017

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