Nicholas Wilson Zhou

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Principal Engineer, Sea - CSS · web performance · React

Sea
Singapore · SGT (UTC+8)
11+ years experience
Vietnam National University
English, Mandarin
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Overview

I've spent 20 years on web frontends - first at Mercari, now at Sea. Led the move of 117 screens to a shared React component library. Most at home with Next.js and CSS. I read too many books about cities.

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  • Working sessions on Next.js
  • Second opinions on GraphQL decisions
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Skills
ReactGraphQLNext.jsaccessibilityCSSweb performance

Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    Sep 2024 - Present
    Sea · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Sit on 4 boards.
    • Backed 14 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Senior Frontend Engineer
    Sep 2022 - Sep 2024
    LG Electronics · 2 yr · Full-time · Singapore
    • Cut the main bundle by 44% and got LCP under 2.7 seconds.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Nov 2018 - Sep 2022
    Coupang · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Brought on-call pages for web down from 18 a week to 3.
  4. Senior Frontend Engineer
    May 2017 - Nov 2018
    Foxconn · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 37 minutes to under 6.
    • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Feb 2016 - May 2017
    Mercari · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Cut the main bundle by 47% and got LCP under 2.1 seconds.

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Education

  1. Vietnam National University
    BSc, Electronics and Communication
    2001 - 2005

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