John Nam is a project manager and software developer with 8 years of cross-functional experience building web and cloud-native products, from tutoring marketplaces to the world’s first Bitcoin NFT game. He blends hands-on full‑stack development (React, Vue, Node, AWS) with product leadership—translating complex business requirements into user-centric features, forging 100+ partnerships, and driving rapid user growth and high retention. His background in mechanical engineering and early construction coordination underpins a methodical approach to documentation, testing, and stakeholder coordination. An active open‑source contributor, he has helped maintain Canada’s Web Experience Toolkit (WET), improving bilingual documentation and accessibility for government sites. He also applies field experience in education and international volunteer work to mission-driven ventures like CrownTutor and Tossmath, bringing uncommon empathy to user research and design.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Mechanical Engineering at University of Toronto
Web Experience Toolkit (WET): Open source code library for building innovative websites that are accessible, usable, interoperable, mobile-friendly and multilingual. This collaborative open source project is led by the Government of Canada.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 15 PRs, 32 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the release notes and documentation updates for the WET-BOEW framework. The commits indicate modifications to both English and French documentation files, covering release highlights and download links. Their work includes adjustments to HTML and related files to update the information on the release. They appear to be involved in maintaining the latest version information, along with correcting and updating the download files and SRI hashes.
Web Experience Toolkit (WET): Open source code library for building innovative websites that are accessible, usable, interoperable, mobile-friendly and multilingual. This collaborative open source project is led by the Government of Canada.
Contributions:52 pushes, 36 branches in 1 year
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