Willie Ching
Software Engineer at Newsela
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWillie Ching is a pragmatic software engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack web and front-end applications, currently contributing to Newsela after his team’s acquisition of Generation Genius. He combines solid foundations from a CS degree at BYU–Hawaii and a University of Utah full‑stack bootcamp with hands-on experience across JavaScript (ES6, Node.js, Passport, Bootstrap, jQuery), Ruby on Rails, PHP, and databases like MongoDB and MySQL. Willie has a track record of shipping product-focused features at startups and agencies, from a Tetris-like Android project to leading web development for mobile companion apps. Fluent in Portuguese and shaped by two years living in Brazil and diverse campus experience, he brings cross-cultural communication and team collaboration to engineering work. Outside of code he’s competed at a high level in college basketball, demonstrating discipline and a history of balancing rigorous academic and team commitments.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Development, Full Stack Development at University of Utah Coding BootcampBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Brigham Young University–HawaiiBrigham Young University
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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40reached
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Github Skills (5)
log-in7
javascript6
regex6
constructor6
react3
Github contributions (5)
rgardner0302/groupProject
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:20 PRs, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
willieching11/Reservations
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
node-expressexpressjsjavascriptexpressclass-project
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