Kito is available for hire

Kito Clark

Verified Expert in Engineering

Full-stack Developer

Location

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Toptal Member Since

October 4, 2021

Kito is passionate about bringing creativity to the coding world. He prides himself on writing clean, maintainable, and easy-to-understand code so that other developers can pick up from where he left off. Kito loves innovating and taking the initiative on projects to deliver a product that exceeds the client's expectations.

Web Development Front-end React Hooks Full-stack Google JavaScript React JSX CSS Redux React Router React Redux Git GitHub TypeScript

Portfolio

Simplero ApS

TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails 4, Stimulus, Tailwind CSS, Relay...

SB Technology, Inc.

TypeScript, React, REST APIs, UX Design, CI/CD Pipelines, Web Components, PHP...

NextPractice

React, TypeScript, Node.js, InversifyJS, SCSS, Marionette.js, Backbone.js, REST...

Experience

JavaScript - 5 years React - 4 years Full-stack - 3 years Node.js - 3 years Google Maps API - 2 years TypeScript - 2 years Cypress - 2 years SQL - 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

MacOS, MacBook, Slack, iTerm2, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), JavaScript

The most amazing...

...project I've built by myself is a customizable WebSocket chat service developed in a little over a week.

Work Experience

Senior Full-stack Developer

2022 - 2023

Simplero ApS

Rewrote and modernized the class-based and untyped React codebase with TypeScript and functional components.
Tracked and fixed bugs using Linear as a tracking tool.
Updated and improved liquid templates to deliver a range of great-looking landing pages.

Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails 4, Stimulus, Tailwind CSS, Relay, GraphQL, Liquid, MySQL, API Integration

Software Engineer (React)

2022 - 2023

SB Technology, Inc.

Implemented a solution for migrating legacy codebase from PHP to React with web components.
Implemented a custom query language for advanced search within a table interface.
Converted legacy UI into components to be used in a new dashboard.

Technologies: TypeScript, React, REST APIs, UX Design, CI/CD Pipelines, Web Components, PHP, MySQL, API Integration

Senior Full-stack Developer

2021 - 2022

NextPractice

Developed modular code to integrate with an existing healthcare platform.
Ensured good test coverage using the React testing library.
Designed and developed UI/UX for the project to integrate seamlessly with an existing healthcare platform.

Technologies: React, TypeScript, Node.js, InversifyJS, SCSS, Marionette.js, Backbone.js, REST, APIs, UI Design, Web Development, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), JSX, Responsive Web Apps, Webpack, Front-end, React Hooks, Testing, Storybook, REST APIs, UX Design, Software Architecture, Technical Leadership, MySQL, API Integration

Senior Software Developer

2021 - 2021

Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy – Queensland Goverment

Architected a micro front-end UI pattern for integrating multiple Angular, Vue.js, and React frameworks in one SPA.
Architected web components written in React to be able to use them agnostic of framework.
Developed a configuration-driven form builder for using Formik to create forms easily.
Hunted bugs continuously and tracked them through Jira.

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Vue, GraphQL, Nightwatch.js, Full-stack, Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, SQL, SCSS, CSS, Jest, TypeScript, Jira, ITerm, Google, Redux, React Router, React Redux, Styled-components, Git, GitHub, GitLab, HTML, HTML5, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), REST, APIs, UI Design, Web Development, JSX, OAuth, Responsive Web Apps, Webpack, Front-end, React Hooks, Testing, Storybook, UX Design, Software Architecture, API Integration

Software Developer

2019 - 2021

Bridj

Developed a WebSocket chat service to integrate with mobile and web platforms.
Architected a modular approach to the front-end design for PnP functionality.
Designed wireframes and mockups for UI experiences.
Architected a global state with an ORM for the front-end to mirror our back-end CRUD operations.
Integrated Google Maps for the live tracking UI of vehicles.
Wrote integration tests with Cypress for ensuring UI quality.

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Full-stack, Ruby on Rails 4, Node.js, Express.js, Ruby, Vue, Cypress, REST APIs, Figma, SQL, Google Maps API, JSS, SCSS, CSS, Jest, Clubhouse, Jira, ITerm, Google, Redux, Vuex, React Router, React Redux, Styled-components, Git, GitHub, TypeScript, HTML, HTML5, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), REST, APIs, React-JSS, Vue Router, Apollo Server, React Apollo, Apollo, PostgreSQL, CircleCI, Heroku, UI Design, Web Development, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), JSX, OAuth, Responsive Web Apps, Webpack, Front-end, React Hooks, Testing, Storybook, UX Design, CI/CD Pipelines, Software Architecture, API Integration

Junior Software Developer

2018 - 2018

Rex Labs

Planned and developed features from development to production.
Tracked and fixed bugs through Clubhouse and Excel spreadsheets.
Collaborated with UI/UX designers to improve the user experience of features.
Integrated React into a legacy codebase built on jQuery and Knockout.

Technologies: React, Knockout (Knockout.js), jQuery, Full-stack, Node.js, Express.js, JSS, SCSS, CSS, Jest, Clubhouse, ITerm, Google, Redux, React Router, React Redux, Styled-components, Git, GitHub, HTML, HTML5, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), React-JSS, Web Development, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), JSX, Responsive Web Apps, Front-end, Testing, Storybook, REST APIs, UX Design, API Integration

Experience

Crypto Coin Tracker

https://koin-widget-production.netlify.app/

I built a React app as a personal project to integrate with a crypto exchange and display calculations in a meaningful way. I worked on the front and back end. I also architected it with a user microservice.

Skills

Languages

JavaScript, CSS, SCSS, TypeScript, HTML, HTML5, Ruby, GraphQL, SQL, PHP, Python 3

Frameworks

Redux, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Express.js, Cypress, Jest, Ruby on Rails 4, Knockout (Knockout.js), Stimulus, Tailwind CSS, Relay

Libraries/APIs

React, React Router, React Redux, Node.js, Vue, REST APIs, Google Maps API, Vuex, React-JSS, jQuery, Nightwatch.js, InversifyJS, Marionette.js, Backbone.js, Liquid

Tools

Git, GitHub, JSX, Slack, JSS, ITerm, Jira, Clubhouse, React Apollo, GitLab, Webpack, Figma, CircleCI

Other

Full-stack, Google, Styled-components, Web Development, Front-end, React Hooks, API Integration, MacBook, iTerm2, Apollo, Apollo Server, Vue Router, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), APIs, Responsive Web Apps, Storybook, Software Architecture, OAuth, CI/CD Pipelines, Technical Leadership, Web Components

Paradigms

REST, UI Design, UX Design, Testing, Microservices

Platforms

MacOS, Heroku, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Storage

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB

Certifications

DECEMBER 2018 - PRESENT

Diploma - Software Development

Coder Academy

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