Quang Van

Boston, 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 14 years of experience working for marketing, SaaS, and healthcare companies. He's founded companies and created social networks, SPAs, membership sites, and marketing tools.

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Portfolio

Absent Software
React.js, Redux, React-Router, Vue.js, Webpack, Ruby on Rails
Alere, Inc.
CoffeeScript, React.js, Backbone.Marionette, Grunt, Mocha.js
OrgNote.com
Express, Backbone, Neo4J, MongoDB, React, Ember, AngularJS, Python, Django

Experience

JavaScript, 14 years
HTML/CSS, 14 years
jQuery, 8 years
Backbone.js, 5 years
React.js, 4 years
SASS, 4 years
Backbone.Marionette, 2 years
Vue.js, 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Debian, Vim, VPS, Git/GitHub, Chrome, OS X

The most amazing...

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

Employment

Founder
Absent Software
2015 - PRESENT
- Helped clients build and launch their web apps.
- Implemented features for a WebRTC app using React.js.
- Made the client's apps 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.
Technologies: React.js, Redux, React-Router, Vue.js, Webpack, Ruby on Rails
Senior Front-End Engineer
Alere, Inc.
2013 - 2014
- Worked daily in CoffeeScript, Handlebars, and Backbone.Marionette; implemented features from design with an Agile team.
- Used React.js and Delorean.js (Flux) on new features.
- 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.js, Backbone.Marionette, Grunt, Mocha.js
Co-Founder
OrgNote.com
2010 - 2014
- Worked with many JavaScript MV* frameworks such as Express, BackBone, Spine, Ember, and Angular.
- Experimented with real-time JavaScript frameworks: Meteor, Derby.js, and Socket.IO library.
- Worked with new declarative frameworks: Vue.js, Reactive.js, and React.js.
- Experienced with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis, and Neo4j.
- Worked with Grunt, Gulp, and continuous deployment.
- Performed new refactorings in Django/Python.
Technologies: Express, Backbone, Neo4J, MongoDB, React, Ember, AngularJS, Python, Django
Software Engineer
Carbonite, Inc.
2012 - 2013
- 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 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
Stratechi Partners
2008 - 2011
- 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
Chitika Inc.
2006 - 2007
- 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
HiveLife.com
2001 - 2004
- Launched an online social network for users to express themselves.
- Utilized LAMP technologies. 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

Contributed to Page.js (Other amazing things)
https://github.com/visionmedia/page.js/pull/86
Page.js is a popular client-side router.
I added the #! hashbang option. This enabled support for static web hosts as well as older browsers.
Contributed to Mocha.js (Other amazing things)
https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/graphs/contributors
Mocha.js is a leading JavaScript test framework.
I added a flag to ignore global leaks. Search on the page for "quangv".
Contributed to the Clean-Webpack-Plugin (Other amazing things)
https://github.com/johnagan/clean-webpack-plugin/pull/5
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.
PomoTrackr (Development)
http://pomotrackr.com
A Pomodoro-technique time-tracker. It's built using React.js and Parse.com.
Shirt Sizes - Sample Project (Development)
https://github.com/quangv/shirt-sizes
A sample project demonstrating TDD with React.js and Redux.
Bootstrap Sales Page (Development)
https://github.com/quangv/bootstrap-sales-page
A Bootstrap sales page, demonstrating my front-end work, HTML/CSS, and Bootstrap.
Contributed to DeLorean.js (Other amazing things)
https://github.com/f/delorean
DeLorean is a Flux implementation for the React.js framework.
Search on the page for "quangv".

Skills

Languages
HTML/CSS, JavaScript, SCSS, SASS, ECMAScript, HTML, CSS, LESS, CSS3, HTML5, EcmaScript 2015 (ES6), XHTML, LessCSS, CoffeeScript, Pug (formerly Jade), Python, SQL, XML, PHP, Ruby, IronPython
Frameworks
Jinja2, Marionette.js, Materialize CSS, Chrome, Express.js, Redux, ZURB Foundation, Bootstrap 3, Underscore.String, Bootstrap, Delorean.js, Flux, Foundation CSS, Stylus, Polymer.js, Django, Hapi.js, Jasmine, Jest, Mocha, Selenium, Knockout.js, Prototype, MeteorJS, Ampersand.js, Ember.js
Libraries/APIs
Moment.js, Lodash, jQuery, React.js, Backbone.js, Backbone.Marionette, Mustache, Handlebars, Underscore.js, Vue.js, Node.js, YUI, Chai, RequireJS, Restify, GSAP, Animate.css, Polymer, Immutable.js, Socket.IO, Evernote API, Vuex, jQuery UI, Seneca.js, Ractive.js, Hogan.js, Google Maps JavaScript API 3, Bing API, Modernizr, jQuery Mobile
Tools
Grunt.js, Grunt, Parse.com, GitHub, Balsamiq Mockups, Git, Webpack, Spine, Trello, Bitbucket, Balsamiq, Basecamp, JIRA, NPM, Babel, Chrome Developer Tools, Subversion, Mercurial, Bower Front-end Dependency Manager, Confluence, Rally, Bower, CVS, Browserify, Google Docs, Vim Text Editor, Pivotal Tracker, FogBugz, Gulp.js, Microsoft Excel, Cucumber, PhantomJS, Jenkins, Flow, Apache, Eclipse
Paradigms
Responsive Web Design (RWD), BEM, SMACSS, Material Design, Agile, REST, Kanban, Continuous Deployment, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Test-driven Development (TDD), TDD, Scrum
Platforms
Parse, WordPress, Firebase, Meteor, Meteor.js, Drupal, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian Linux, Heroku, Mac OS
Storage
JSON, SQLite, MongoDB, CouchDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, PouchDB, NoSQL, Neo4j
Misc
DHTML, Isomorphic, Semantic UI, BEM Architecture, JSX, fluxible, Mockups, User Experience (UX), LocalStorage, Bluebird, Async.js, BSON, jQuery Validation, AWS S3, SVG, Jenkins CI

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