Frank Kong
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Markham, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolFrank Kong is a software engineer based in Markham, Ontario with seven years of hands-on experience building full-stack solutions. Currently at Red Hat, he progressed from an internship to a software engineer role, reflecting strong production-facing growth within an enterprise open-source environment. Frank contributes to high-profile projects like Backstage, where he improved the Lighthouse plugin’s UX, test coverage, and integrations—showing comfort across frontend, backend, and developer tooling. He combines a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Toronto with practical expertise in error handling, audit tooling, and third-party integrations. Known for shipping pragmatic fixes (for example, correcting Dynatrace redirects) that improve developer workflows, he brings attention to detail and product-oriented thinking. Frank’s background positions him to bridge developer experience and scalable platform engineering in open-source ecosystems.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
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front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
jestjs9
jes9
jtest9
backstage9
portal8
web-developer8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Jun 2023 - Oct 2024
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 10 PRs, 66 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to the Backstage project's Lighthouse plugin, focusing on improving the user interface and functionality related to website audits. They added more informative components for cases where no audits were found, updated test files for the Lighthouse plugin, and refined error handling within the plugin's hook. The user also fixed a Dynatrace integration link to redirect users to the correct location. These changes demonstrate expertise in both frontend and backend development within the Backstage ecosystem.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
Zaperex/backstage-plugins
Jul 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:24 PRs, 205 pushes, 68 branches in 1 year 1 month
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