Summary
Virak Ngauv is a frontend developer based in Redwood City with eight years of engineering experience spanning manufacturing, full-stack roles, and focused UI work at Shopify. He transitioned from a Chemical Engineering degree and process engineering at P&G into software by self-teaching and shipping product at Wayfair, where he improved onboarding, automation, and internal tooling. Passionate about delightful interfaces, he built and deployed Secret Hitman (a multiplayer React game) end-to-end with CI/CD to GCP, showcasing both frontend craftsmanship and infrastructure skills. At Wayfair he delivered measurable impact—saving hours for sales reps and stabilizing complex data flows—and now applies that pragmatic, metrics-driven mindset to frontend challenges. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on learner who moves quickly from idea to MVP, a trait traceable to his first night-building echolocation game. He enjoys creating interfaces that are both functional and beautiful and welcomes feedback from real users.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering at University of Florida