Ken Kang
Founder Coach at Project HSD
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Kang is a software engineer-turned-founder coach with 11 years of experience building accessible, high-performance web applications and developer workflows from Seattle. He’s shipped production systems across e-commerce and agency settings—implementing React-driven front ends, permissioned GraphQL APIs, Neo4j/Postgres backends, and Gatsby integrations—while emphasizing testing, accessibility, and SEO. Ken has a track record of turning legacy codebases into modern React architectures and contributed to revenue-driving features at scale early in his career. Equally comfortable coaching founders as he is pairing on complex technical problems, he blends rigorous engineering discipline from Hack Reactor with a humanities perspective from the University of Washington. An organizer and instructor in community projects, he brings product-minded curiosity and practical delivery experience to early-stage teams.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree on Philosophy and Comparative Religion, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Bachelor's degree on Philosophy and Comparative Religion, Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of WashingtonAdvanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack Reactor
English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
gatsby-plugin8
gatsby7
react7
gatsbyjs7
graphql7
security5
compiler5
static-site-generator4
energy1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
khwkang/scholars-way
Jul 2018 - Mar 2020
Community Project for Scholars Ways Community
Contributions:6 PRs, 86 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 7 months
scholars
Cantankerous-Muffin/UrbanTemple
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:98 commits, 48 PRs, 25 pushes in 20 days
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