Kadin Van Valin
Data Chapter Lead
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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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.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Dev BootcampSkills Course, Frontend Development, Skills Course, Frontend Development at Thinkful
Github Skills (39)
javascript10
ionic10
vue10
frontend10
react10
angular10
ui-components9
react-native9
ios9
framework79
stencil9
progressive9
typescript9
progressive-web-apps9
ui-toolkit9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Kadinvanvalin/phase-0-tracks
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:74 PRs, 58 pushes, 33 branches in 2 months
Kadinvanvalin/dotfiles
Sep 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:139 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 5 months
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