Edward Hong
Intermediate Software Engineer
Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolEdward Hong is an intermediate software engineer based in Lower Hutt, Wellington with a decade of experience building web applications and crime prevention tech at Auror. He brings full-stack chops honed through leadership and hands-on roles at UNICEF Aotearoa, startups, and freelance content work for Codecademy, bridging product-focused front-end work with backend delivery. Comfortable leading small teams and projects, he has experience creating UI component libraries, Storybook-driven documentation, and curriculum-quality developer exercises. His background in finance, maths and statistics gives him a data-minded approach to engineering tradeoffs and product metrics. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and curious, combining steady execution with an appetite for reusable, well-documented developer tools.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
freeCodeCampBachelor of Commerce - BCom, Finance, Maths and Statistics, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Finance, Maths and Statistics at Victoria University of Wellington
English, Chinese
Github Skills (104)
github10
subversion10
git10
patch10
balloon9
amazon-dynamodb9
workspace9
component-library9
vue9
dynamodb8
markdown8
notion8
planning8
element-ui8
mako8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
edward-hong/nation-of-social-media
Jun 2020 - Jun 2024
Nation of Social Media lets users enter an account name of a Youtube channel or Twitter handle to the app. Then the user can find out whether the number of subscribers/followers the account has is more than the population of the countries around the world. The number of subscribers/followers can also be compared with American states and county populations.
Contributions:3 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
social-networkyoutube-channelaccountyoutubenation
edward-hong/node-with-react--fullstack-web-development
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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