Tai Hovanky
Senior Software Engineer at 8am
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolTai Hovanky is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with nine years of experience building full-stack web applications, specializing in React frontends and Node.js backends. He has delivered production features across startups and enterprise teams—from a revenue-driving freight app at Arrive Logistics to a workflow automation feature used company-wide at Walmart. Tai excels at turning complex workflows into intuitive UIs and performant APIs, and has practical experience integrating ML metrics, GraphQL, and scalable AWS infrastructure. As a freelancer he designed an account-matching system that reduced hours-long manual work to instant results, pairing efficient algorithms with real-time collaboration and payment flows. He’s comfortable across the stack and the devops boundary—deploying and managing services on AWS and migrating storage and secrets systems in large orgs. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, user-focused solutions that balance product impact with engineering reliability.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Human Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Human Biology at The University of Texas at AustinFront End Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Front End Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampHack Reactor
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Github Skills (47)
smart-on-fhir8
nodejs8
javascript7
sql7
classification7
social-media6
react6
orm6
mssql6
typescript6
sqlite6
json6
bootstrap6
evaluation6
postgresql6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TaiHovanky/Bloglet
Apr 2021 - Feb 2024
Practice social media app using Node, GraphQL, TypeORM, and React
Contributions:4 reviews, 56 PRs, 217 pushes in 2 years 10 months
reacttypeormexpresssocial-media-appnodejs
TTFG-Analytics/commonground
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:148 commits, 48 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 months
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