Ken Kang
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolKen Kang is a software engineer-turned-founder coach with 11 years of experience building accessible, high-performance web applications and developer workflows from Seattle. He’s shipped production systems across e-commerce and agency settings—implementing React-driven front ends, permissioned GraphQL APIs, Neo4j/Postgres backends, and Gatsby integrations—while emphasizing testing, accessibility, and SEO. Ken has a track record of turning legacy codebases into modern React architectures and contributed to revenue-driving features at scale early in his career. Equally comfortable coaching founders as he is pairing on complex technical problems, he blends rigorous engineering discipline from Hack Reactor with a humanities perspective from the University of Washington. An organizer and instructor in community projects, he brings product-minded curiosity and practical delivery experience to early-stage teams.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree on Philosophy and Comparative Religion, Philosophy and Religious Studies, 3.8 w/ Honors, Bachelor's degree on Philosophy and Comparative Religion, Philosophy and Religious Studies, 3.8 w/ Honors at University of WashingtonAdvanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack Reactor
English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
gatsby-plugin8
react8
gatsby8
graphql7
compiler6
gatsbyjs6
frontend6
fastest6
static-site-generator5
energy1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
khwkang/scholars-way
Jul 2018 - Mar 2020
Community Project for Scholars Ways Community
Contributions:6 PRs, 86 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 7 months
scholars
Cantankerous-Muffin/UrbanTemple
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:98 commits, 48 PRs, 25 pushes in 20 days
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.