Tyler Chong
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Chong is a software engineer with a decade of experience who blends academic rigor from Georgia Tech and University of Hawaii with a hacker-maker spirit. He builds practical, user-facing systems and experiments—recent projects include a Discord voice assistant demoed on Vimeo and an investigative mapping site tracking Honolulu Police arrest statistics. Based in Seattle, he favors hands-on problem solving and rapid prototyping, turning real-world data into actionable visualizations. His GitHub persona hints at resourcefulness and urban creativity, treating the "concrete jungle" as a daily design constraint. Tyler’s background spans full-stack development and data-focused tooling, making him comfortable at the intersection of APIs, analytics, and conversational interfaces. He’s the kind of engineer who pairs strong CS foundations with curiosity-driven side projects that reveal civic and product-minded interests.
10 years of coding experience
DevLeagueMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Hawaii at Manoa
English
Stackoverflow
680reputation
58kreached
15answers
6questions
Github Skills (200)
incident-management10
cortex10
npm-package10
responders10
semantic-ui10
putty10
javascript10
discord-js10
txt10
semantic-ui-react10
color-scheme10
verify10
api10
rest10
gui-editor10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
hnl-ai/hpdstats
May 2021 - Dec 2022
A data tracker on the arrests of the Honolulu Police Department
Contributions:78 commits, 10 PRs, 94 pushes in 1 year 7 months
trackerpolicedepartmenthawaiihonolulu
CodeWithAloha/Hawaii-Zoning-Atlas
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Interactive map showing how outdated zoning laws make it hard to build diverse, affordable housing in Hawaii.
Contributions:57 reviews, 4 commits, 56 PRs in 1 month
affordablediversezoninglawshawaii
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