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About

Howard Lee is a Staff Software Engineer based in Taipei, specializing in frontend architecture, CI/CD, and production-quality engineering for enterprise web applications.

With 13+ years of software development experience, Howard has worked across B2B SaaS, IoT energy-management platforms, online travel marketplaces, and Android applications. His work focuses on modernizing large frontend systems, improving delivery quality, and building reliable product workflows with automated testing, observability, and practical cloud/platform integration.

Core Expertise

  • Frontend architecture: Angular 5 to 19 modernization, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, RxJS, TanStack Query, Redux, Material-UI, Styled Components, and Ag-grid.
  • CI/CD and quality engineering: Playwright, Cypress, TestCafe, CI/CD pipeline design, Docker workflows, PR review, and release-quality improvements.
  • Observability and production support: Sentry-based production issue monitoring, regression tracking, and release impact analysis.
  • Cloud and platform technologies: AWS, GCP, Node.js, Laravel, Redis, MySQL, PWA, WebSocket, MQTT, and Flutter.

Career Highlights

  • Modernized a 50k+ line Angular frontend codebase from Angular 5 to Angular 19 while maintaining production delivery for construction-industry B2B SaaS products.
  • Improved frontend performance, including reducing LCP from 1.78s to 0.07s and shortening large-customer workflow wait time from about 13s to about 2s.
  • Introduced production error monitoring and release-quality tracking with Sentry to improve regression visibility and support faster issue analysis.
  • Led frontend delivery in a 4-person cross-functional team, using Playwright/Cypress automated testing and CI/CD workflows to support frequent customer releases.
  • Built IoT energy-management interfaces for NB-IoT LPG platforms, including MQTT over TLS/PKI, WebSocket dashboards, and Flutter-based mobile delivery.
  • Supported multi-country online travel marketplace features using Vue.js, Laravel, Redis caching, and cloud platform services.

Product Domains

Enterprise B2B SaaS, frontend modernization, IoT energy-management dashboards, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and release-quality improvement.

Outside of work, I enjoy movies and travel.