Christopher

Hello!

My name is Christopher Lai

I'm a full-stack web developer fueled by relentless passion and endless curiosity.

I specialize in creating beautiful, responsive, and performant web applications that provide exceptional user experiences.

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Experience

I'm always eager to take on new challenges and expand my expertise in cutting-edge technologies that create meaningful impact.

Web Designer

CUNY Hunter College - ICIT Department

Apr 2024 – Present

  • Design, publish, and maintain WordPress pages for Hunter College, ensuring WCAG compliance and applying UI/UX best practices to improve accessibility and usability for 10,000+ monthly users.
  • Built a Python script (requests, BeautifulSoup, urllib.parse) to scan legacy CMS webpages, extract unique URLs, and automate a manual, error-prone workflow, streamlining the preliminary web content migration process.
  • Maintain and update the Hunter College website by ensuring consistent branding, accurate content, and reliable functionality across all pages.
  • WordPress
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Figma
  • Adobe Creative Cloud

Freelance Web Developer

ACJ International Realty LLC

Nov 2023 – Dec 2023

  • Designed and developed a responsive website for a real estate company using Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and MongoDB.
  • Built a secure contact form system using server-side validation, input sanitation, hCaptcha, and API routes, delivering reliable email notifications via Nodemailer and Zoho Mail.
  • Used MongoDB for scalable and secure storage of form submissions, ensuring data integrity and easy retrieval.
  • Integrated Zoho Mail to centralize and streamline communication, improving inquiry management and response efficiency.
  • Improved website performance and SEO through lazy loading of images/components, structured metadata, and Next.js optimizations, resulting in faster load times and stronger search visibility.
  • Managed domain registration on Porkbun and deployed to Vercel, ensuring reliable hosting, scalability, and smooth CI/CD deployments.
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • MongoDB
  • Nodemailer
  • Zoho Mail
  • Vercel

Data Analyst Intern

NYC Department of Social Services

Jul 2022 – Aug 2022

  • Developed a Python pipeline (PyPDF2, Pandas, SQLite) that extracts invoice data from PDFs, converts it into structured CSVs, standardizes filenames, and removes duplicates via SQL queries, ensuring a clean, duplicate-free invoice directory.
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Excel

Contact Me

Feel free to send me a message at clai20707@gmail.com or by using the form below. I look forward to connecting with you!