Michael-bryant Choa is a Founding Engineer with 11 years of full-stack experience building modern web applications using ES6, Node, React, Redux and GraphQL, currently driving product and engineering at Ease Capital in Los Angeles. He has a strong track record in high-impact e-commerce and startup environments (The Black Tux, Thrive Market, Nordstrom/HauteLook) and a history of improving conversion funnels and analytics at scale. Michael-Bryant is also an active open-source creator — he built React Monocle, a developer tool that parses and visualizes React component hierarchies with real-time state feedback, demonstrating deep knowledge of parsers, testing and developer UX. Comfortable across front-end, back-end and DevOps workflows, he brings pragmatic TDD, performance-focused engineering, and a background in embedded GUI systems to complex product challenges. Collectedly, his work shows a blend of startup grit, production-grade architecture, and a knack for developer tooling that uncovers hidden complexity.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at Binghamton University
A developer tool to visualize a React application's component hierarchy.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:190 commits, 113 PRs, 79 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael-bryant primarily contributed to the development of a React-based developer tool for visualizing React application component hierarchies. Their work focused on implementing the core logic for parsing and extracting component information from JavaScript files, specifically supporting ES5 and ES6 component syntax. The user also refactored the parser and related unit tests, and implemented unit tests to ensure the parsing correctly handles component composition including nested components and props.
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years
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