Akira Wong
Founder at as above jewelry
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorAkira Wong is a founder, technologist, and educator with 13 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web products and teaching software engineering. Based in San Francisco, he launched and grew As Above Jewelry — a Rails/React e-commerce business that reached low six-figure revenue while he managed product, digital ads, and end-to-end operations. As CTO of Rocket Academy he designed curricula, led instructors, and spec’d integrated stacks for registration, LMS, payments and CRM during a pre-seed raise, and as General Assembly faculty he revamped immersive curriculums for high-volume cohorts. His open-source contributions show practical front-end craftsmanship and full-stack refactors (from DOM-driven JavaScript UIs to Express/React backends). Comfortable switching between code, curriculum, and commercialization, he brings a rare blend of teaching-first communication and founder-level product execution. An interesting detail: he built a niche 3D-printed astrology product line that married technical tooling with creative product-market fit.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Stackoverflow
1,317reputation
257kreached
18answers
8questions
macos
top-5%
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
expressjs10
css10
responsive-design10
dom-manipulation10
front-end-development10
html10
nodejs10
react10
json9
macos9
back-end-development8
content-script6
chef-infra6
vagrant6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
wdi-sg/pokedex-express-post
Jun 2018 - Apr 2020
Pokedex Express App with POST requests
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 37 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Akira primarily focused on modifying the backend logic of the Pokedex Express application. Their contributions included updating the application to utilize React for the frontend, as well as refactoring the routes and associated code. The user also made changes to improve the application's error handling. The changes involved modifications to the `index.js` file, indicating a central role in the application's development.
expressjsjavascriptexpressexpress-appnodejs
wdi-sg/choose_your_own_adventure_js
Feb 2018 - Mar 2020
Choose Your Own Adventure
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 12 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Akira primarily contributed to the front-end development of a "Choose Your Own Adventure" JavaScript project. Their work focused on building the user interface with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, specifically implementing DOM manipulation. They added HTML structure (input and output elements), CSS styling, and JavaScript logic for handling user input and displaying output. The commits demonstrate their involvement in creating and updating the core front-end components of the application.
javascriptchoose-your-own-adventure
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