makena kong

about me

I’m a full-stack engineer that leans towards the front end and a good eye for UI/UX design. I’m a quick prototyper and iterate fast.

• github
• linkedin
• medium
• san francisco, ca

experience

• full stack engineer @ wefunder
• software engineer intern @ wefunder
• information technology intern @ the clorox company
• core engineering intern @ space systems loral

volunteer

• cs instructor @ code nation (ICA)
• hackathon leader @ code nation (we won 2nd place!)
• cs instructor assistant @ code nation (THMAS)
• ui/ux designer @ the prosparity project

articles

• How to add and customize the Trix Editor for your Ruby on Rails Application
• How to customize the Quill Toolbar with React and Custom Blots
• A Quick Guide to QuillJS
• Outerbase Plugin | Creating an HTML Preview Plugin

projects

• shopping cartgame built for wefunder
• the progr-ha-ha-mermake yourself laugh with some clean & silly programming jokes from the jokesapi
• choose your boozecocktail list with data from some random api
• computational art playgroundjs experiments with computational and generational art
• weather boi pwamobile/desktop weather pwa with data from dark sky api
• poetry card sitetinder swipe poetry site for my ex-bf built with gatsby
• feed my petsrandom js website on glitch
• old portfolio websiteone of the first and silliest versions of my portfolio
• my virtual bedroommy virtual bedroom built in c# with Unity
• mak's outfitsgallery of my favorite outfits built with webflow
• web of lieslies by ex-president Donald Trump published in the NY Times
• yemen cultural websiteproject for my nutrition class in college built with wix

education

• California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
• California Institute of the Arts (online)

skills

• languages:
  • js/ts
  • ruby
  • python
  • sql
• web:
  • react & next
  • vue & nuxt
  • ruby on rails
• cloud:
  • gcp & firebase
  • aws