Summary
Chris Hong is an ML Ops engineer and front-end specialist with a decade of experience building data-driven UIs and resilient delivery pipelines from Spokane, WA. He combines expertise in React/TypeScript, MapBox visualizations, and MUI-based component libraries with practical DevOps skills—Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon ECS/EKS, and GitLab CI—to ship production systems and testing environments (including company-wide Cypress adoption). Past roles span logistics and field-facing apps where he improved performance, offline reliability, and developer velocity by standardizing form rendering and migrating legacy stacks. A trained writer and former MFA candidate, he brings strong communication and UX sensibilities to technical problems, often producing internal white papers and talks to spread best practices. He also maintains a freelance portfolio and authors fiction, a detail that informs his emphasis on clear, stylish user-facing communication.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. (summa cum laude), English, B.A. (summa cum laude), English at Northeastern State University
MFA (44 of 72 hours), Creative Writing (Fiction), MFA (44 of 72 hours), Creative Writing (Fiction) at Eastern Washington University