Brandon Kwong
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Experience
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Archy
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Oct 2022 - Present
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Openfit
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United States
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Wellness and Fitness Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer, Mobile
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Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
Los Angeles, CA | Remote Upgraded in-app purchase modules as part of coordinated effort for internationalization of digital subscriptions made through Apple and Stripe payments. Researched, architected, and led efforts to upgrade two major versions of React Navigation for using native iOS and Android APIs.
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LA Labs
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technical Lead Manager
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Aug 2017 - Apr 2021
Los Angeles, CA | Remote Cultivated the company culture of LA Labs and drove capacity building toward improving and retaining both programmatic and interpersonal skills within the agency to create quality products and strategies. Provided 1:1 mentoring and coaching, facilitated pair and mob programming, modeled standards of code quality, integrity, and empathy with client in-house staff; and accelerated projects as a fully remote team.
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Senior Software Engineer, Front-End
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Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
Los Angeles, CA | Remote Client Highlight: CLIPr, Staff Augmentation Implemented modular redesign and improved stability of video components that interact with ML data points, using React, Storybook, TypeScript, SASS, and MobX; mocked and tested with Jest and Sinon. Built comment system utilizing Draft.js, closely working with product design in Figma and Storybook, with features including rich-text content, url detection, mentions, emoji selection, replies and edits.
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Senior Lead Software Engineer, Full-Stack
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Feb 2018 - Nov 2020
Los Angeles, CA | Remote Client Highlight: National CineMedia, Staff Augmentation Provided cross-team guidance to deliver new features within a legacy codebase of Ruby, Rails, MySQL, while progressively replacing stack with Next.js, Material-UI, Strapi, PostgreSQL; tested with RTL. Researched, prototyped, and coordinated delivery with internal and external teams for Single Sign-On authentication system using AWS Cognito to allow OpenID Connections from web, iOS, and Android. Partnered with Senior… Show more Client Highlight: National CineMedia, Staff Augmentation Provided cross-team guidance to deliver new features within a legacy codebase of Ruby, Rails, MySQL, while progressively replacing stack with Next.js, Material-UI, Strapi, PostgreSQL; tested with RTL. Researched, prototyped, and coordinated delivery with internal and external teams for Single Sign-On authentication system using AWS Cognito to allow OpenID Connections from web, iOS, and Android. Partnered with Senior Technical Architect to develop a serverless infrastructure, using Terraform to provision services including ECS, Systems Manager, API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito, Dynamo, S3, IAM.
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LA Labs
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Lead Software Engineer, Full-Stack
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Apr 2015 - Aug 2017
Los Angeles, CA | Remote Developed full-stack web and mobile applications for various streaming, media, and entertainment clients including an interactive multi-user video platform using React Native, Redux, Firebase, AWS, WebRTC. Created private npm packages for generating Node.js and Express back-end APIs, React web apps, and integrating React components for Facebook, Google+, and Twitter OAuth logins, and React components for multipart uploads.
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Fuhu Inc.
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Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Developer, Full-Stack
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Oct 2014 - Apr 2015
El Segundo, CA Developed Progressive Web App (PWA) for collaborative cloud-based HD video production and editing, and designed UI icon assets for tablet Wi-Fi camera app, connecting to a 4K HD action camera. Created back-end API with Node.js and Express to perform comprehensive AWS services across multi-platforms, and setup and optimized node transcoder with FFMPEG to encode a single video file from multiple video and audio sources.
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Web Developer & Designer
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Jan 2013 - Jul 2014
San Francisco Bay Area | Remote Developed websites and information architecture for local businesses and organizations looking to establish an online presence using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, and WordPress. Web services included DNS and hosting, responsive web design, MySQL database management, WordPress installation, theme development, plugin customization, CMS training, and consulting.
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Center for Pan Asian Community Services
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United States
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Marketing & Development Coordinator
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Feb 2012 - Jun 2013
Atlanta, GA Managed primary website and event site containing blog, event information, donation, and registration for corporate-sponsored annual TEA Walk festival that net over 1,600 participants every year. Designed a typographic poster-series for a multilingual marketing campaign with the GATE Coalition to reduce underage drinking and prevent alcohol-related traffic fatalities across 4 Metro Atlanta cities. Created marketing collateral including brochures, fact sheets, and leaflets for Rock… Show more Managed primary website and event site containing blog, event information, donation, and registration for corporate-sponsored annual TEA Walk festival that net over 1,600 participants every year. Designed a typographic poster-series for a multilingual marketing campaign with the GATE Coalition to reduce underage drinking and prevent alcohol-related traffic fatalities across 4 Metro Atlanta cities. Created marketing collateral including brochures, fact sheets, and leaflets for Rock the South 2012 general election voting campaign, reaching over 7,000 Asian Pacific American Metro Atlanta residents. Coordinated student leaders and community volunteers to facilitate various social, cultural, and educational community programs.
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Development Coordinator, AmeriCorps VISTA
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Feb 2011 - Feb 2012
Atlanta, GA Established branding for organizational logo, website, social networks, online campaigns, and presentations. Developed website to increase online visibility, and established online registration for the annual event.
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University of California, Riverside
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Cultural & Educational Programs Coordinator
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Sep 2009 - Jun 2010
Riverside, CA Facilitated planning for student leaders to scale large campus events and strategize online marketing. Front-end development for online portal to access 2010 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month campus events.
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UC Irvine
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Student Parent Orientation Program Coordinator
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Jan 2009 - Sep 2009
Irvine, CA Facilitated and organized university orientation program with faculty and team of 5 coordinators. Evaluated, recruited, and coordinated 130 volunteers to assist over a total of 4,000 incoming students.
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Design & Publicity Intern
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Jun 2008 - Jun 2009
Irvine, CA Managed UCI Cross-Cultural Center web platform for marketing campus events and registering students online. Graphic and web design using Photoshop, HTML, CSS, and developed basic PHP form handling with MySQL.
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Education
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University of California, Irvine
Bachelor's Degree, Psychology and Social Behavior -
General Assembly
Full-Stack Web Development