Yu Heng Chen

I am a frontend engineer who treats the interface as a craft. Most of my days are spent in React and TypeScript, shaping components that stay readable as they grow and feel quick under the hand. I like reaching for the right primitive instead of the clever one.

My happy place sits where design and engineering overlap: turning a Figma file into something that ships, then sweating the details until the motion, spacing, and type read exactly as intended. I keep up with the tools I lean on - Next.js for structure, Firebase when a backend should disappear, Tailwind to move fast without losing the plot.

Outside the editor I am the kind of person who reads the changelog. New runtimes, rendering tricks, a sharper way to model state - if it makes the web feel better, I want to understand how it works.