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.
experience
- full stack engineer @ wefunder
- software engineer intern @ wefunder
- information technology intern @ the clorox company
- core engineering intern @ space systems loral
volunteer
- into to web dev instructor @ code nation (ICA)
- hackathon instructor @ code nation (we won 2nd place!)
- cs instructor assistant @ code nation (THMAS)
- ui/ux designer @ the prosparity project
articles
projects
- makarchives.com(wip) website designed & built for my brand
- 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