Ben Hsieh

Education
App Academy
Jan - May 2020
1000-hour coding school with an admissions rate below 3%, which emphasizes coding style, pair programming, and best practices.
MBA - University of Maryland at College Park

Degree in Information Systems.
BS - New York University

Degree in Finance.

Experience
InductiveHealth - Software Engineer
May 2025 - presnet
Work on enterprise software
JPMorgan Chase - Software Engineer, CIB
March 2022 - April 2024
Work on enterprise public lockbox project
Revature - Software Engineer
November 2020 - March 2022
Built various projects involving Angular JS, Java Spring, Javalin, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, JDBC

Wrote JUnit, Mockito, Selenium Cucumber, and Protractor tests to comply with test-driven development (TDD) & behavior-driven development (BDD) process and used Maven to manage app product cycles

Frequent hackathon participation such as Mintbean.io platform.

Contribute to various open source projects such as Animation CSS in Zero to Mastery community.

My Projects

MongoDB, Mongoose, Express, React, Redux, Redux Thunk, Node, React Google Maps, BCrypt, Body-Parser, Concurrently, Passport, JSONWebtoken

Collaborated with a team using a Git version control system where I was responsible for Google map customization and rendering.
Refined React Google Map SearchBox to allow users to re-center map view and place markers based on search location. This allows users to explore different areas of the map by typing a distant location rather than dragging the map to that location.
Implemented info window component with JavaScript click event listener to streamline users’ report submission and evaluation.

React, Redux, Firebase, Node, Redux Saga, Redux Thunk, Compression, Express, Body Parser, CORS, Axios, React Router Dom

Incorporated redux for statment management and deployed axios for async requests.
Created backend Stripe payment processing server to collaborate with front-end app. Utilized Google Cloud Firestore as database.
Leveraged React's lazy, suspense and memo for code splitting optimization.

JavaScript, Ruby, React JS, Ruby on Rails, Redux JS, Redux JS, HTML, CSS, React Tabs, SQL, Firebase, News API, IEX Cloud API, Rechart API

Used ES6 syntax to build scalable React JS components for splash and dashboard page. Structured ES6 functions so they may be portable in different React JS components.
Made ajax requests to unexpected routes in order to retrieve stocks and news data. Extended default styling and functionality of Recharts library with custom CSS to provide users with an accurate, informative, and intuitive UI for the quick consumption of stock-price data over time.
Built a responsive app with CSS grid system and flexbox and fine-tuned several CSS effects on forms, buttons, search box, navbars, and list items. The result is a more seamless and engaging navigation of the app.

React, PostgreSQL, Express, HTML, CSS, Clarifai API, React Particles JS, React Tilt, Knex JS, Tachyons CSS

Designed database in PostgreSQL and communicated with Clarifai API to build face recognition function
Leveraged React Particles JS and React Tilt for special effects

Angular JS, Bulma CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Now.sh

JavaScript, HTML, CSS, MongoDB, Mongoose, Passport, Express, EJS, Connect Flash

JavaScript, HTML, CSS, WebPack, EDAMAM API, Firebase Database

Used Adobe XD to wireframe the project structure and used it as a blueprint in building out the project.
Configured EDAMAM API axios requests to return 100 recipes per search and added pagination so that 10 results are displayed per page.
Implemented CSS 3 to improve UX/UI layout. Added special effects to buttons and a spinner to account for data loading. The overall effect better user experience with a professional looking website.