Ron Kok
Asst. Telecommunication Engineer
Puyallup, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarRon Kok is an Assistant Telecommunication Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience blending front-end web development and telecommunications work from Puyallup, Washington. A former structural engineer and creator of Hurmet.org, he brings a methodical, detail-oriented approach to UI rendering and SVG math typesetting—contributing meaningful front-end improvements to high-profile open-source projects like KaTeX and nomnoml. His contributions include implementing Unicode support, refining square root and fraction rendering, and enhancing SVG text measurement and styling, reflecting strong HTML/CSS expertise and attention to visual accuracy. At NCI Information Systems he applies this cross-disciplinary background to improve communication systems and user-facing interfaces, often spotting and fixing subtle rendering and efficiency issues that others miss.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
html10
mathematics10
css10
javascript10
svg10
front-end-development10
math10
unicode9
mathjax9
diagram7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
KaTeX/KaTeX
Jun 2017 - Oct 2022
Fast math typesetting for the web.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:70 reviews, 194 commits, 316 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ron's commits primarily involve front-end development, focusing on creating and improving the visual rendering of mathematical formulas within the KaTeX library. Their work includes implementing new features, such as support for Unicode characters and enhancements to existing elements like square roots and fractions. The contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of HTML and CSS for rendering the equations. The user refactored the code to improve efficiency in certain areas.
mathtypesettingmathematicsjavascriptkatex
skanaar/nomnoml
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
The sassy UML diagram renderer
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 12 comments in 24 days
Contributions summary:Ron primarily contributed to improving the SVG rendering capabilities of the project. They added support for features like italic and non-bold text, dashed lines, and half ellipses. Furthermore, the user addressed code quality issues, fixed underline rendering, and enhanced text measurement within the SVG rendering process.
umlnomnomlclass-diagramsvgflowchart
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