Quang Van

Boston, MA, United States

Member since April 30, 2016

Quang enjoys creating beautiful software with equally beautiful code. He has a talent for understanding and refactoring large code bases. He believes in best practices, small functions, and white space. He has over 15 years of experience working for marketing, SaaS, healthcare, and crypto companies. He's founded companies and created social networks, SPAs, membership sites, and marketing tools.

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Portfolio

Absent Software
React, Redux, React Router, Vue.js, Webpack, Ruby on Rails
Stronghold.co
React, Redux, Redux-saga, Immutable.js
Alere, Inc.
CoffeeScript, React, Backbone.Marionette, Grunt, Mocha.js

Experience

HTML/CSS, 15 years
JavaScript, 15 years
Backbone.js, 5 years
React, 5 years
Redux, 2 years
React Apollo, 1 year
Styled-components, 1 year
Elm, 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Ubuntu, Spacemacs, Bash, Git, GitHub, Chrome, OS X

The most amazing...

...work I've done was the React-based front-end for a disruptive WebRTC doctor/patient app, an isomorphic React gamer's social network and Powerful Notes app.

Employment

Founder
2015 - PRESENT
Absent Software
- Helped clients build and launch their web apps.
- Implemented features for a WebRTC app using React.
- Developed the client's apps to be SEO-friendly using Isomorphic React, React Router, and Webpack.
- Explored Electron and Redux to turn web apps into desktop apps.
- Worked and developed with Ruby on Rails from concept to implementation.
- Incorporated data-driven technologies such as GraphQL, React-Apollo, and AWS AppSync.
- Explored new languages like ClojureScript, Elm, and ReasonML.
Technologies: React, Redux, React Router, Vue.js, Webpack, Ruby on Rails
Principal Front-end Engineer
2017 - 2018
Stronghold.co
- Created the front-end architecture for a cryptocurrency trading platform; starting from mockups all the way to production.
- Tied together various React-ecosystem libraries including Redux, Redux-saga, and React-Router.
- Implemented a real-time crypto-currency conversion service based on current conversion tables.
- Developed a wallet feature including the ability to send and receive various cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Lumens, and Ethereum.
- Implemented Google Authenticator in the front-end.
Technologies: React, Redux, Redux-saga, Immutable.js
Senior Front-end Engineer
2013 - 2014
Alere, Inc.
- Worked daily in CoffeeScript, Handlebars, and Backbone.Marionette; implemented features from design with an Agile team.
- Built new features with React and Delorean.js (Flux).
- Converted over 150 files and 10,000 lines into Require.js AMD modules.
- Performed unit testing with Mocha, Chai, and Sinon.js.
- Refactored Backbone Views to Marionette.
- Created SVG Immunization bar graphs.
- Implemented over 1,100 commits in 2013, and worked on feature development, bug fixes, and re-architecture.
- Worked in Node.js creating Grunt tasks and Express.js middleware.
- Helped hire and onboard new web development team members.
Technologies: CoffeeScript, React, Backbone.Marionette, Grunt, Mocha.js
Co-founder
2010 - 2014
OrgNote.com
- Worked with many JavaScript MV* frameworks such as Express.js, Backbone.js, Spine, Ember.js, and Angular.
- Experimented with real-time JavaScript frameworks: Meteor, Derby.js, and Socket.IO library.
- Worked with new declarative frameworks: Vue.js, Ractive.js, and React.
- Gained experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis, and Neo4j.
- Worked with Grunt, Gulp, and continuous deployment.
- Performed new refactorings in Django/Python.
Technologies: Express.js, Backbone.js, Neo4J, MongoDB, React, Ember, AngularJS, Python, Django
Software Engineer
2012 - 2013
Carbonite, Inc.
- Worked as a member of Carbonite's Currents Agile team using Scrum.
- Worked on front-end parallel development for iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
- Utilized Backbone.js models to interact with a RESTful API.
- Advocated and used Knockout.js as a front-end web framework.
- Used CSS, Sass, Compass, and Susy for maintainable stylesheets and responsive web design.
- Worked occasionally on Mono C# .NET debugging with Eclipse.
Technologies: Knockout.js, Backbone.js, JavaScript, C# .NET, HTML, CSS, Sass
Consultant
2008 - 2011
Stratechi Partners
- Coded and launched various PHP web apps including article submitters, business rewards, and survey sites.
- Worked with LAMP stack, Linux (Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu) Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
- Worked heavily with jQuery and JavaScript.
- Created custom WordPress themes and worked with Drupal.
- Implemented the redesigns of existing sites; improving navigation and usability.
- Worked in Python CherryPy (a web framework) and IronPython.net for a desktop app.
Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Apache, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, jQuery, HTML, CSS
Web Developer
2006 - 2007
Chitika Inc.
- Designed and developed the first MySpace ad unit, Chitika Owna—which is a jQuery UI-focused ad.
- Developed the new user interface for members to customize the design of ad units; built it with PHP and jQuery.
- Worked with outsourced designers to build customized WordPress templates launching the company blog.
- Developed a word-match app using Macromedia Flex framework for a contest.
Technologies: PHP, PhpNuke, jQuery, HTML, CSS, WordPress
Founder
2001 - 2004
HiveLife.com
- Launched an online social network for users to express themselves.
- Utilized LAMP technologies such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP for the back-end and HTML, CSS, and jQuery for the front-end.
Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Apache, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Experience

Contributions to Page.js (Other amazing things)
https://github.com/visionmedia/page.js/pull/86
Page.js is a popular client-side router and I added the #! hashbang option. This enabled support for static web hosts as well as older browsers.
Contributions to Mocha.js (Other amazing things)
https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/graphs/contributors
Mocha.js is a leading JavaScript test framework and I added a flag to ignore global leaks. Search on the page for "quangv".
Contributions to AWSmobile-cli (Other amazing things)
https://github.com/aws/awsmobile-cli/graphs/contributors
I contributed to Amazon's open-source project AWSmobile-cli.
Contributions to the Clean-Webpack-Plugin (Other amazing things)
https://github.com/johnagan/clean-webpack-plugin/pull/5
A Clean-Webpack-plugin is a plugin for a popular Node.js bundler Webpack that deletes project folders as needed. There was a nasty oversight that allowed it to delete any folder, the complete project as well as any root folder. I was compelled to prevent someone from making this mistake.
Contributions to DeLorean.js (Other amazing things)
https://github.com/f/delorean
DeLorean is a Flux implementation for the React framework.
Search on the page for "quangv".
PomoTrackr (Development)
http://pomotrackr.com
A Pomodoro-technique time-tracker. It's built using React and Parse.com.
Shirt Sizes | Sample Project (Development)
https://github.com/quangv/shirt-sizes
A sample project demonstrating TDD with React and Redux.
Bootstrap Sales Page (Development)
https://github.com/quangv/bootstrap-sales-page
A Bootstrap sales page that demonstrates my front-end work, HTML/CSS, and Bootstrap.

Skills

Languages
CoffeeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, SCSS, ECMAScript (ES6), XHTML, HTML/CSS, Less, Pug (formerly Jade), ES8, GraphQL, Ruby, Python, PHP, XML, SQL, IronPython, Elm, Clojure, Reason ML
Frameworks
Redux, Express.js, Bootstrap, Bootstrap 3, Underscore.String, Jinja, Flux, Delorean.js, ZURB Foundation, Foundation CSS, Materialize CSS, Chrome, Django, Knockout.js, Prototype Framework, Selenium, Jest, Jasmine, Hapi.js, Ember.js, Ampersand.js, Re-frame, ClojureScript
Libraries/APIs
Marionette.js, jQuery, React, Backbone.js, Backbone.Marionette, Moment.js, Underscore.js, Handlebars, Lodash, Mustache, Immutable.js, React Router, Node.js, YUI, Ractive.js, Vue.js, jQuery UI, Evernote API, Socket.IO, RequireJS, Chai, Hogan.js, GSAP, Animate.css, Polymer, Seneca.js, LocalStorage, jQuery Validation, Restify, Vuex, Redux-saga, Styled-components, Google Maps JavaScript API 3, Bing API, Modernizr, jQuery Mobile, PhantomJS, Redux-loop
Tools
Spine, GitHub, Trello, Bitbucket, Git, Stylus, Webpack, Grunt, Grunt.js, Balsamiq, Balsamiq Mockups, JSX, Redux Thunk, Mocha, JIRA, Basecamp, Confluence, Rally, Subversion (SVN), Mercurial, CVS, Vim Text Editor, Pivotal Tracker, FogBugz, Microsoft Excel, Google Docs, Browserify, Gulp.js, Bower, Bower Front-end Dependency Manager, Babel, Chrome Developer Tools, NPM, AWS AppSync, React Apollo, Create React App, Jenkins, Eclipse IDE, Cucumber, Apache, Flow, Emacs
Paradigms
SMACSS, BEM, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Agile, REST, Kanban, Scrum, Continuous Deployment, Test-driven Development (TDD), Behavior-driven Development (BDD)
Platforms
Parse, WordPress, Firebase, Meteor, Drupal, Debian Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Mac OS, Heroku
Storage
JSON, MySQL, PostgreSQL, CouchDB, MongoDB, SQLite, NoSQL, PouchDB, Neo4j, AWS S3
Other
Mockups, fluxible, BEM Architecture, Semantic UI, DHTML, Isomorphic, User Experience (UX), Google Material Design, BSON, Async.js, Bluebird, Apollo, SVG, Elm Architecture

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