Ivan Kwong
Senior Backend Engineer at Yale and August U.S.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Kwong is a Senior Backend Engineer based in San Francisco with seven years of experience building robust web applications and backend services. Trained in sociology with a computing specialization from UCLA and full-stack training at App Academy, he blends research-driven analysis with practical engineering—skills he applied early to projects like a Netflix clone and a resume-driven job search site. At Yale and August he progressed from Backend Engineer to Senior Backend Engineer, focusing on scalable server-side systems since 2019. His background in social science and research (USC Annenberg) gives him a distinctive ability to translate user behavior and data insights into product-focused technical decisions. Comfortable across JavaScript, Node, and Rails, he brings both full-stack fluency and a penchant for turning interdisciplinary curiosity into reliable software.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los AngelesFull-Stack Web Development, Full-Stack Web Development at App Academy
Chinese
Stackoverflow
381reputation
8kreached
26answers
0questions
Github Skills (26)
endpoint8
health8
health-check8
expressjs8
server7
nodejs7
server-side7
crud6
api6
dictionary6
python-decouple6
excel6
sqlalchemy6
rest6
virtualenv6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ivank710/Leetcode
May 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
ivank710/Portfolio
Mar 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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