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JT Houk
Montreal, Canada

Hi, I'm JT -- software engineer and cloud architect in Beijing. When I'm not developing software, I'm coordinating events with Vue Beijing, writing on my blog, or GM-ing adventurers in D&D 🐲.

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Coderbunker
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021 (3 months)
Remote
Senior Software Engineer
Working with dynamic teams on projects and consulting with clients to develop software solutions
nodeJS aws VueJS python ReactJS docker mongodb
Vue Beijing
Jan 2019 - Nov 2020 (1 year 10 months)
Beijing City, China
Co-Founder & Director of Operations
• Founded and directed the largest official Vue.js events organization in Beijing with over 300 participants on and offline.
• Attracted over a dozen participants from events to join and contribute to the Vue.js framework through community hiring.
• Managed event spaces and organized monthly events with upwards of over 40 attendees signing up through Huodongxing.
VueJS nodeJS aws docker circleci nuxt.js websocket redis postgresql
Akkadu
Jun 2018 - Dec 2020 (2 years 6 months)
Beijing City, China
Co-Founder & Senior Software Engineer
• Founded the Akkadu live stream interpretation platform that served over 10,000 users in China, Europe, and the US including Amazon, MIT, and the European Chamber of Commerce, each of which reviewed our product highly.
• Managed and hired 3 engineers and 5 developer interns, led onboarding processes, and lead a team of 6 engineers to refactor the monolithic platform to an API cluster in AWS and a CDN hosted static site, reducing server costs by over half.
• Provisioned CDN caching strategies, Docker container clusters, load balancing, DNS/TLS, queue messaging, and serverless microservice processing to increase overall site speed by over 700% in mainland China.
• Migrated the existing session-based authentication to stateless JWTs while supporting backwards compatibility for over 100 APIs and refactored a monolithic codebase of over 100k lines to under 10k to reduce deployment times by over 600%.
• Developed APIs and database schemas using Node.js 12, REST, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL 12, as well as CI/CD pipelines in CircleCI to run unit tests and automate deployments, speeding up time product release cycles from weeks to days.
AWS Docker nodeJS GraphQL PostgreSQL serverless

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Dropbox Paper CMS
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Dropbox Paper CMS is an open source Node.js module I created to generate static pages in markdown for your website.

It uses Dropbox Paper as a backend CMS, so you can update content on Dropbox Paper and see the changes deployed to your site without writing any code.
One only needs to write documents in Dropbox Paper, and Dropbox Paper CMS will fetch documents in markdown, save them locally, then optionally update your CMS sidebar with new file paths
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Old Dominion University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy
Dec 2010 - Dec 2014
Thesis topic for BA:
The Nature of Wisdom in Platonic Dialogues
Node Certification
Jun 2018
TEFL
Jun 2015

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