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Making the web awesome is my passion.

I am a Software Engineer who loves building interactive web applications. I believe great apps should work smoothly and look clean, so people can focus on getting things done. Seeing users succeed with something I helped build is the most rewarding part of my work. I am always refining the experience to make each product better than before.

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I will work with anything... to make the web work.

Throughout my career, I have taken on unfamiliar and challenging problems. I have contributed to backend systems, automation platforms, and mobile applications across very different codebases. Some were clean, some were heavily patched, but I focus on improving the developer experience so teams can build and ship with confidence.

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While my code is compiling...

Outside of coding, I play guitar and enjoy Japanese animation (anime). Both constantly fuel my creativity and inspire how I think about building products. I often learn anime theme songs on guitar, and that mix of music and storytelling keeps my ideas fresh. When I can bring those creative influences into software, I do my best work.

module_01 // tech_stack

Core Proficiencies

JavaScript

LOGIC_ENGINE_V8

  • >Node.js
  • >React.js
  • >Astro
  • >Vite / ESBuild / SWC
  • >Webpack
  • >Vue.js
  • >...Vanilla

HTML/CSS

STRUCTURAL_UI_CORE

  • >HTML5
  • CSS3 / CSS Preprocessors4>
    • >CSS in JS - Emotion / Styled Components / JSS
    • >Tailwind, Utility First, or Atomic CSS
    • >CSS Modules
    • >SASS

JACK OF ALL TRADES

OTHER_TECH_SKILLS_I_HAVE

  • >GraphQL
  • NoSQL3>
    • >Firebase Realtime Database / Firestore
    • >MongoDB
    • >Any document store, (e.g. Local Storage, IndexedDB, PouchDB)
  • SQL4>
    • >PostgreSQL
    • >MySQL
    • >Google Cloud BigQuery
    • >Anything SQL based (e.g. SQLite3)
  • Other Cloud / Google Cloud Platform4>
    • >Google Cloud Storage
    • >Google Cloud PubSub
    • >Google Kubernetes Engine
    • >Cloudflare Workers
  • Other Programming Languages3>
    • >PHP
    • >Python
    • >Go

module_02 // education

Education

Open University of Southern California in a new tab

University of Southern California

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Engineering, Magna Cum Laude

2010 - 2013

module_03 // portfolio

Portfolio

Built in the digital underground: apps, UI experiments, and creative code modules I designed and shipped, from React tools to interactive front-end prototypes.

chord-charts
ID: GITHUB_0x01

chord-charts

Create a web application to store chord charts for musicians
JAVASCRIPTCSS
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Red (Angry Birds) (CSS3 Challenge)
ID: GITHUB_0x01

Red (Angry Birds) (CSS3 Challenge)

Recreated one of my favorite characters, Red (Angry Birds) with just CSS
CSSHTML
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imaginary-pet-shop
ID: GITHUB_0x02

imaginary-pet-shop

Create a web application to understand and prototype the e-commerce experience
JAVASCRIPTCSS
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infinite-scroll-demo
ID: GITHUB_0x03

infinite-scroll-demo

Demo of a photo reel on how infinite scroll can work with IntersectionObserver
JAVASCRIPTCSS
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Kirby (CSS3 Challenge)
ID: GITHUB_0x04

Kirby (CSS3 Challenge)

Recreated one of my favorite characters, Kirby with just CSS
CSSHTML
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tips
ID: GITHUB_0x05

tips

Created a tips calculator application for tipping at restaurants
JAVASCRIPTCSS
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USC Viterbi School of Engineering
ID: WORK_0x06

USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Created a jQuery slider that showcases events and news articles as a replacement of the flash player for the Viterbi School of Engineering homepage so visitors don't have to download Flash
CSSHTMLJAVASCRIPTPHPMYSQL
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VKEY
ID: WORK_0x07

VKEY

Created an interactive web application for prospective USC Viterbi students that showcases USC Viterbi School of Engineering life and its respective students
CSSHTMLJAVASCRIPTPHPWORDPRESS
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Harman Goei (hrgui) is a developer that loves to make cool and awesome web applications. His strength is in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, but he is willing to code anywhere in the stack to make the web be awesome.

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