Von Garcia
IT Support Specialist at American Express Global Business Travel
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVon Garcia is an NYC-based software engineer and IT Support Specialist with four years of experience building full-stack web applications and supporting enterprise systems at American Express Global Business Travel. He blends practical DevOps and CI/CD skills with front-end expertise in Svelte and React, having shipped interactive UIs, WebSocket-driven real-time apps, and database-backed REPL tooling for open-source projects. Comfortable across TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, Vercel, and testing stacks (Vitest, Cypress), he emphasizes maintainability through strong typing and automated testing. His background in hands-on caregiving before transitioning to software gives him unusual empathy and situational calm when troubleshooting user-facing incidents. An active open-source contributor, he has engineered performance-minded features like optimized WebSocket handshakes and bundle reductions that improve real-world responsiveness.
4 years of coding experience
Xavier High SchoolSoftware Engineering Immersive Program, Software Engineering Immersive Program at CodesmithBachelors of Science, Financial Economics, Bachelors of Science, Financial Economics at Binghamton UniversityHunter College
English, filipino (tagalog), Cebuano, French
Github Skills (10)
svelte-component10
sveltekit9
npm9
svelte8
typescript8
component-library7
discord3
discord-js3
discord-bot3
nodejs2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vongarcia97/insta-biter-nyc
Jan 2023 - Sep 2023
A sveltekit - firebase app to track your favorite instagram food bloggers
Contributions:3 PRs, 19 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
vongarcia97/bitepay-xyz
Jun 2023 - Jul 2023
Frontend client for BitePay.xyz
Contributions:42 pushes in 1 month
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