Damon Nguyen
Lead Frontend Engineer at ControlUp
San Leandro, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDamon Nguyen is a Lead Frontend Engineer with 11 years of experience building performant, user-focused web applications from prototype to production. Based in the Bay Area, he specializes in JavaScript, React, and Node.js, and couples modern front-end craftsmanship with practical back-end skills across SQL and NoSQL databases. He led technical decisions and real-time architecture for a social media platform using Socket.io and AWS, and currently drives frontend strategy and execution at ControlUp. Damon has a startup mindset—implementing CI/CD, integrating complex media players, and designing APIs—while also having hands-on experience architecting Express servers and Redux-driven UIs. His background includes a formal full-stack education from Hack Reactor and earlier non-tech roles that inform a pragmatic, user-centric approach to product design. Colleagues praise his ability to translate UX designs into responsive, maintainable interfaces and to tame state complexity in large single-page apps.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Chabot CollegeFull-Stack Developer, Computer Software Engineering, Full-Stack Developer, Computer Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
Github Skills (3)
job-search7
react5
javascript2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
damonnguyen7/nodj
Aug 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:12 PRs, 96 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 6 months
damonnguyen92/dial-up
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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