Brian Kung - jsonresume.org

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    "name": "Brian Kung",
    "label": "Software Engineer",
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    "email": "work@briankung.xyz",
    "phone": "(224) 730-6348",
    "url": "https://briankung.dev",
    "summary": "Brian is a longtime Illinois resident and father to three children who are his bosses. He is a master diaper changer and truck noise-maker looking for career growth opportunities as current managers are unimpressed with expertise in backend programming and web development.",
    "location": {
      "address": "211 N Fiore Pkwy",
      "postalCode": "IL 60061",
      "city": "Vernon Hills",
      "countryCode": "US",
      "region": "Illinois"
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    {
      "company": "Life",
      "position": "FATHER",
      "description": "continuing the biological directive",
      "startDate": "2018",
      "endDate": "FORESEEABLE FUTURE",
      "location": "EVERYWHERE",
      "highlights": [
        "Changing diapers",
        "Potty training",
        "Tantrum management"
      ]
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    {
      "company": "42Floors",
      "position": "CONSULTANT",
      "description": "commercial subleasing",
      "startDate": "2019",
      "endDate": "2020",
      "location": "San Francisco / Remote",
      "highlights": [
        "Bug fixes and feature additions in an up-to-date Rails application. Mostly in BackboneJS on the frontend and a fairly conventional Rails backend."
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    {
      "company": "LiveWatch",
      "position": "SOFTWARE ENGINEER",
      "description": "home security",
      "startDate": "2017",
      "endDate": "2018",
      "location": "Evanston / Remote",
      "highlights": [
        "Wrote credit card verification and fraud prevention for thousands of transactions per month",
        "Identified qualified customers via TransUnion and ActiveProspect APIs",
        "Improved ecommerce customer experiences with custom Spree Ecommerce: VueJS on the frontend and Rails 5.1 on the backend",
        "Rails / PostgreSQL / Vue / Netsuite stack, deployed to Heroku and AWS, international and remote collaboration via Git/GitHub, Agile"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "FLOSHIP",
      "position": "SOFTWARE ENGINEER",
      "description": "global logistics provider",
      "startDate": "2015",
      "endDate": "2016",
      "location": "Hong Kong / Remote",
      "highlights": [
        "Enabled direct sales to enterprise customers with Braintree integration",
        "Saved thousands of operations hours with CSV upload",
        "Developed API features with Python 3.4, Django 1.7+ and PostgreSQL",
        "Implemented CSV data import, user authentication, SPA frontend features in Backbone/Marionette",
        "Pre-rendered thousands of customer badges using Python Wand and ImageMagick",
        "Deployed to Heroku, managed source code with Git and GitHub"
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      "company": "EIGHT BIT STUDIOS",
      "position": "SOFTWARE ENGINEER",
      "description": "consultancy",
      "startDate": "2014",
      "endDate": "2014",
      "location": "Chicago",
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        "Developed API with Ruby on Rails 4.x and PostgreSQL using TDD with RSpec, Capybara",
        "Implemented photo upload to AWS S3 and image cropping, authorization and token authentication using Devise gem",
        "Deployed to Linode using Ansible, Capistrano 2.x, and AWS S3",
        "Worked in 1 week Agile sprints, captured stories and tracked progress using Pivotal Tracker"
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    {
      "company": "AGGREGO",
      "position": "SOFTWARE ENGINEER",
      "description": "digital news",
      "startDate": "2012",
      "endDate": "2013",
      "location": "Chicago",
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        "Implemented customizable image cropping for 40+ editors to use on thousands of articles",
        "Maintained and updated a CMS, front-end, and hypermedia REST API for the Chicago Sun-Times using Ruby on Rails 3.2 and MongoDB",
        "Testing with RSpec, Capybara, and Selenium,  deployed to AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and S3, managed source code with Git and GitHub using git flow workflow"
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    {
      "company": "LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE"
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    {
      "company": "Project Credo",
      "position": "COFOUNDER",
      "description": "science consensus platform",
      "startDate": "2016",
      "endDate": "2017",
      "location": "Chicago / Remote",
      "highlights": [
        "Validated MVP using Business Canvas",
        "Ran open-ended UX interviews and implemented prototypes",
        "Managed code contributions via Git/GitHub - fully open source",
        "Docker / Rails / PostgreSQL / Vue stack, deployed to Heroku"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "VARIOUS CLIENTS",
      "position": "CONSULTANT",
      "location": "Chicago",
      "startDate": "2013",
      "endDate": "2015",
      "highlights": [
        "Consultant at Networking Research Group (Groovy/Grails)",
        "Technical and design consultant for Project Credo",
        "Maintained and improved Toadlane in Rails",
        "Created / maintained Wordpress installations for Fennel & Iris, Vital Points Therapy"
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    {
      "company": "PROJECT EULER SPRINT",
      "position": "FOUNDER",
      "description": "computational math meetup",
      "startDate": "2013",
      "endDate": "2016",
      "location": "Chicago",
      "highlights": [
        "Organically grew the meetup to hundreds of members and donors",
        "Created game rules for projecteuler.net, ran monthly meetings",
        "Found sponsors for food and space and organized event times",
        "Developed eulersprint.org to track of game scores and spread rules"
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      "institution": "University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign",
      "url": "https://illinois.edu//",
      "area": "East Asian Languages and Culture",
      "studyType": "Bachelor",
      "startDate": "2007",
      "endDate": "2011"
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        "Ruby",
        "Ruby on Rails",
        "Elixir"
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      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": [
        "Javascript",
        "VueJS",
        "HTML",
        "CSS"
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    },
    {
      "name": "Systems Programming",
      "level": "Beginner",
      "keywords": [
        "Rust"
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  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Native speaker"
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    {
      "language": "Chinese 普通话",
      "fluency": "Intermediate"
    }
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    {
      "name": "Biology",
      "keywords": [
        "Ethology",
        "Ecosystems",
        "Microbiology",
        "Integrative Biology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Movement Arts",
      "keywords": [
        "Dance",
        "Martial Arts",
        "Martial Arts Tricking",
        "Parkour"
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