I'm constantly gazing at the stars, wondering what's out there.
Hey there, I'm Hang, currently a Senior Software Engineer at Gartner.
When I'm not vibe coding, I'm usually out there grinding mileage, taking photos of landscapes, cityscapes, and stars, and camping in the woods.
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.