Ricky Chon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRicky Chon is a freelance open-source developer and full-stack engineer with seven years of experience building gamified productivity tools and practical web applications. Based in New York, he has shipped frontend-first dashboards and modular backend APIs using React/Next.js, TypeScript, C# .NET, AWS Lambda, and MongoDB, and has led small teams through refactors and product rewrites. His background includes MLH fellowships and work on Discourse and data tooling, reflecting a strong mix of UX-minded frontend work and backend engineering rigor. Passionate about space, sci‑fi, and solarpunk aesthetics, he blends creative themes with productivity design to make software that’s both useful and delightful.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Computer Science; Banking and Finance; Entrepreneurship, High School Diploma, Computer Science; Banking and Finance; Entrepreneurship at New Utrecht High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Brooklyn College
Chinese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (200)
manim10
cubing10
tabletop10
todoist10
browser10
static-site-generator10
child-process10
forum10
discourse10
preload10
subscribe10
math10
python10
user-feedback10
ruby10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
RickyC0626/authentication-example
Nov 2022 - Jun 2024
⚗️ An example authentication system with registration and login forms
Contributions:31 PRs, 28 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 7 months
tailwindcssbcryptlogin-systemmongodbauthentication-system
MLH-Fellowship/ttp-team-4-1
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Originally aimed to make a skribbl.io clone, but ended up making a clone of codeshare.io instead
Contributions:58 commits, 32 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 days
reactskribbljavascriptnodejsreactjs
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