Grant Kang
Senior Software Engineer at The Beyond Group
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolGrant Kang is a Senior Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with eight years building scalable React and Node.js applications across startups and freelance projects. He led front-end development for Quze, contributing to sports modeling UX, and co-created React Sight — a top-trending open-source tool that visualizes React component hierarchies and served 1,000+ concurrent users. Deeply experienced with React internals, D3 visualizations, and Redux/Redux-Saga patterns, he has implemented efficient state-management routines, load optimization, and real-time hooks into the virtual DOM. Grant blends product-minded decisions (subscription, auth, UX) with hands-on engineering, improving production performance using techniques like code-splitting and throttled hooks. He also contributes developer tooling and algorithmic experimentation in open source, including runtime complexity estimators and collaborative platforms. His background in both Codesmith engineering training and business administration informs a pragmatic approach to delivering user-focused, maintainable front-end systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at CodesmithAssociate's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Associate's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at Santa Monica College
Korean, English
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
visualization10
d3js10
visualizations10
react10
chrome8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
React-Sight/React-Sight
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Visualization tool for React, with support for Fiber, Router (v4), and Redux
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:94 commits, 48 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Grant primarily contributed to the visualization tool's front-end development, focusing on React components. Their work included adding a d3.js-based tree visualization for component hierarchies and connecting the React Sight extension to the Chrome DevTools. They also implemented features to interact with the application through sliders, displaying state and props information, and enabling breadcrumb navigation within the visualization.
react-componentreactreact-router-v4react-fiberjavascript
quartz-app/quartz
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 146 pushes, 44 branches in 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.