I'm constantly gazing at the stars, wondering what's out there.
Hey there, I'm Hang, currently a Software Engineer at Garnter.
When not trying to find a bug or bugs that crash my program, I enjoy learning about engineering, taking photos of landscapes/cityscapes and stars, brewing coffee and detailing my car.
After months of interviews with many companies, I finally received an offer from Gartner!
Yes, I quit my job on April Fools' Day.
I wanted to learn more about GraphQL, specifically with the Apollo Graph Platform. Therefore, I took the Apollo Odyssey courses that offers free hands-on GraphQL tutorials.
I'm building this portfolio/blog to publish and save things that people wouldn't see on my resume or LinkedIn. I'm using GraphQL, Next.JS, Contentful and Tailwind CSS to build this site. I think this is Jamstack?
After few months of interviews, I finally landed a IT Analyst position in a Bank located in New York City. The offer was not that great, but hey, I got a job.
I was actively learning more about IT and decided to pursue some certifications. I got my AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, CompTIA A+ ce Certification and CompTIA Network+ ce Certification during this period.
After spending 3.5 year in Stony Brook University and 1.5 year in City College of New York, I finally got my Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering!
After months of researching and multiple revision, I finally completed my Senior Design Project 'Automating Online Proctoring'. It was a huge relief for me.
After finishing 'Full Stack Open 2020' offered by University of Helsinki in Finland, I decided to build an application from what I learned in that course. I built a full stack social media website based off a website that was widely used by the student in Stony Brook University.
My university course load was not really heavy that semester, I decided to pick up web development again. After numerous researches, I found 'Full Stack Open 2020' Online Course offered by University of Helsinki. It was a reading and hands-on based course and that was refreshing after going through many video based courses.
Study from home gave me lots of free time as I no longer had to communte to school 3 days a week. I decided to pickup website development courses on Udemy. I learned more about Node.Js and class-based React at that time. I really appreaciate functional-based React now!
I built a weather casting application with Darksky API and Google Geolocation API. I don't remember the motiviation behind this application, maybe it was snowing that day.