HOWARD
TJONG
Software Engineer | Front End Engineer
Providing 7+ years of expertise as a software engineer in web application solutions with focus on developing engaging and intuitive front ends.
Learn more about me, what I can do for you, my relevant works, and how to contact me.
Hello there.
My name is Howard Tjong.
Professionally, I work as a software engineer with 7+ years of experience building front end focused full stack web application solutions. I've had the privilege of working on a range of products from e-commerce business websites to ad supported video streaming applications.
Motivations
Growing up in the early 90s had me experiencing wonder and awe at how quickly technology transforms the way we do things in society. Now, as a developer, I can look under the hood and appreciate how the web services we use on the daily are supported by so many layers of infrastructure. To feed my fascination, I've made it my job to explore how technology can be applied to solve everyday problems.
What I can do for you
Web application solutions
In this fast paced industry, technology grows quickly to meet the various challenges issued by modern society. It can be easy to fall behind the latest developments. I keep up with emerging technology trends and best practices to write thoughtful web application solutions that meet your needs.
Skills and expertise
Well versed in today's modern web development ecosystem, I build projects end to end, from requirements gathering, development, to releases. Here is a look at some of skills I frequently use, as well as the web services I offer as a professional in the field.
Services I offer
In order to help you reach your goals, I extend my skills and expertise to offer you services in website development, SEO, and front end engineering.
Website Buildout and SEO Services
I deliver full website buildouts and ongoing SEO work to establish a digital presence for your business and serve your audiences on digital platforms.
- Competitor analysis
- Website design and development
- Website support and hosting
- Search Engine Optimization
- Google My Business
- Page and keyword ranking
Front End Web Applications
Take projects from conception to delivery. Leverage modern front end
ecosystems in your tech stack.
I work with your engineering and product teams to bring industry standard
development practices when developing your website initatives.
- Scrum project management
- Industry standards, best practices, code quality
- Front end system design
- UI and DOM manipulation
- Patterns, tooling, techniques
- Website performance optimization
Free Consultation
Please reach out with a project you are working on or any questions you have. I am happy to discuss how I can help you reach your goals.
Relevant work
With experience in all stages of Scrum agile software development, I've taking on roles through requirements gathering, planning, system design, development, testing, CI / CD, and release. Teams I have served or served on span IT departments, product, design, engineering, business intelligence, and marketing teams.
Corporate roles
Projects I've worked on
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Call center web applications to support web services for e-commerce
transactions.
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- Angular
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Serverless applications initiating cron jobs to batch and transfer data
from S3 bucket to SFTP server.
- AWS
- SQS
- S3
- Lambda
- CloudWatch
- Javascript
- NodeJS
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Ad supported video streaming websites.
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- ReactJS
- NextJS
- Playwright
- Github Actions
- ESLint
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Data lake ETL pipelines provisioned with SQL-like access.
- AWS
- Glue
- Data Lake
- Athena
- S3
- Lambda
- CloudWatch
- Python
- PySpark
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Website performance and SEO tune ups.
- SEO
- Lighthouse
- WebPageTest
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Website platform migrations.
- Amazon Web Services
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Business process automations.
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- Angular
- NodeJS
- Scripting
Case study
Contact
Please reach out with a project you are working on or any questions you have. I am happy to discuss how I can help you reach your goals.