Kadin Van Valin
Data Chapter Lead
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKadin Van Valin is a Data Chapter Lead and full‑stack software engineer in Chicago with nine years of experience building scalable web and mobile systems. He transitioned from hands‑on caregiving as a hospice aide to software development, bringing uncommon empathy and user-centered thinking to engineering and team leadership. Kadin has led data initiatives at CJ, operated AWS-managed Elasticsearch clusters ingesting 100+ GB daily, and practiced XP disciplines like TDD, pairing, and continuous deployment. His background includes full stack work with the MEAN/Ionic stack and frequent production releases to app stores, reflecting a bias for shipping and supporting live products. Comfortable both shipping code from his “junk drawer” GitHub and guiding teams, he blends practical operational experience with collaborative engineering practices.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Dev BootcampSkills Course, Frontend Development, Skills Course, Frontend Development at Thinkful
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
ui-components10
ionic10
vue10
frontend10
react10
angular10
ios9
stencil9
typescript9
progressive-web-apps9
css9
ui-toolkit9
android9
mobile9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Kadinvanvalin/kadinvanvalin.github.io
Dec 2019 - Jan 2026
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
Kadinvanvalin/phase-0-tracks
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:74 PRs, 58 pushes, 33 branches in 2 months
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