GitHub: taesup
Twitter: taesup
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Bio
Graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Information and Computer Science degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2009. During his undergraduate studies, he completed at an internship with a local Department of Defence contractor where he built a Java based neural network tasked with tracking and making predictions on a UAV's future course up to 3 timesteps in advance.

Later employed at Lockheed Martin for 5 years, working in various sectors ranging from GIS and graphical interfaces built using Java Swing, to building Service Oriented Architecture compliant backend services to ingest friendly and enemy locations to be displayed at a theater level for command and control purposes.

Afterward, moving on to a local consulting firm, working as the lead developer on an open source online forum, EpochTalk, built on Hapi and AngularJS. He lead the initial architecture and development of the forum software including but not limited to, database models, backend services, and frontend design.

Transitioned into a lead web developer role for a small privacy based startup in the VPN industry. Building the entire web presence using Angular 2+, including but not limited to: online support forum, public facing webpages, and a client portal. The startup was acquired by a larger VPN industry leader where he took charge of the rebuilding their web extension using React.

Most recently, employed DevLeague as an instructor for their full time and part time web development course.
Skills
Languages
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS / SCSS
  • SQL
  • Java
  • Python
Frameworks
  • React / Redux
  • AngularJS / Angular 2+
  • Express.js
  • Hapi
  • Knex / BookShelf
  • Passport.js
  • Web Extensions (Chrome / Firefox)
Tools
  • MailGun / SendGrid
  • Stripe / Amazon Payments / PayPal
  • WebPack
  • PostgreSQL / PostGIS
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • Neo4J
  • AWS S3 / EC2 / RDS / ElastiCache / CloudFront
  • Docker / Docker Compose / Docker Machine
Projects
A remoteok.io clone built specifically for contract work.