Hal Shin
software engineer
About me
Greetings! I'm thrilled to welcome you to my corner of the digital universe. With over three years of professional software engineering experience, I've been on a journey to make the world a better place through software.
Over the last few years, I've come to understand and appreciate a great breadth of software engineering: from intuitive UIs, scalable backend systems, to rapid development and deployment cycles, and team & project management. Despite the many different hats I've worn, my mandate has remained ultimately the same—to create software that is delightful to use and delightful to develop.
As a self-taught developer, I welcome new challenges and I never stop learning. In fact, growth mindset is an approach that I apply not just to software engineering, but also on the tennis courts 🎾 and in my home studio playing guitar 🎸 and piano 🎹.
I'm excited to connect and collaborate on projects that make a difference. Let's turn ideas into reality together!
Skillset
I am experienced in the full lifecycle of software development.
Frontend
JavaScript/TypeScript | CSS3 | HTML5 | React/Next.js/React Native + state management + CSS frameworks | Design | SEOs | Accessibility (a11y) | Internationalization (i18n)
My weapon of choice is React with TypeScript. I enjoy converting wireframes into implementation, but I can also create the design files. I particularly appreciate frontend for the quick feedback and the visual nature of the work.
Backend
Python + Flask/FastAPI | Node.js + Express.js | MongoDB | REST | Apache Airflow | Electron.js
My experience with the backend stack involves items like API development, testing, authentication, authorization, monitoring, and scheduling.
DevOps
CI/CD Pipelines | Git/GitHub + Actions | Scrum/Agile | Linux | Docker | Kubernetes | GCP | AWS
DevOps helps organizations move quickly and learn more effectively. I'm familiar with containerization through Docker, orchestration through Kubernetes, and provisioning through both GCP and AWS.
Portfolio
Projects below are sorted newest to oldest.
GeoSearch
GeoSearch is a chat-enabled GIS tool that allows users to find a place of interest via a chat interface and purchase satellite images.
GeoEngine
GeoEngine is a platform to expedite machine learning pipelines through an integrated process of sourcing images, annotating data, tracking experiments, and running inferences.
Thursday
Thursday is a script organizer desktop app. With it, you can add your own scripts, tag them, and group them into workspaces. Handy if you reach for the same scripts in a given context, like setting up your work environment.
Friday
Friday is a desktop generalist tool, built to be modular. As an Electron app, it allows the user to create actions (open link, folder, run command, run script) and instructions made up of actions. It supports plugin development and dashboards with draggable modules.
PostBook
PostBook was a take-home project I completed in a single workday. The app supports basic CRUD operations (no backend) through creating posts, and has a basic search and filter functionality.
RL Tournament App
RL Tournament App is a MERN app for organizing tournaments. It supports scraping a player's data, team formation sandbox, round robin generation, live sessions through web sockets, and more.
Project Incubator
Project Incubator is a social platform that fosters meaning projects through collaboration. Users are able to create projects that others can request to join. In a project, members can share ideas through the forum, post project updates, set goals and complete task items.
Personal Website
This website was a fun project! Using React and emotion.js, I styled this app from the ground up. The site is also fully responsive!
D3 Projects
D3 Projects is a series of smaller projects built using the d3.js data visualization library. Data charts include a bar chart, a scatterplot graph, a heat map, a choropleth map, and a treemap.
Pomodoro Clock
Pomodoro Clock is a countdown timer app based on the Pomodoro technique for productivity. It handles pause and reset features and it cycles through the set break and session lengths. There is also an alarm so you don't miss your breaks!
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