Kavin Tjhan

I'm a frontend developer backend developer

About me

I'm Kavin and am a frontend developer backend developer former growth marketer

Hi! Kavin here! I’m a former growth marketer turned software engineer. I’m currently aiming to be more of a contributor in the tech world, along with the purpose of turning my career around in a more analytical and engineering mindset. This is all aided by my passion for coding, computers, and dabbling in new technologies.

Birthday:02.12.1992
Email:tjhan.kavin@gmail.com
Phone:(408)688-7279
LinkedIn:ktjhan
AngelList:kavin-tjhan
Github:ktjhan

Skills

Interests

Gaming
Reading
Traveling
Programming

Fun Facts

Champion
Back to back local school National Geographic Bee winner
Soccer
Huge European soccer follower, proud Manchester United fan

Working History

2021 - 2022

Junior Software Engineer,
Stratacache.

• Worked with major fast-food clients like Taco Bell to ideate, plan, and facilitate their electronic menu boards using JavaScript and Vue.js

• Refactored the user interface experience for Taco Bell’s artificial intelligence tool that customers see when they place drive-thru orders, resulting in an increase of 2% sales nationwide
2020

Software Engineering Intern,
Acceleprise.

• Supported operations by creating an internal React.js tool to help portfolio companies with their sales pitch to potential customers

• Integrated React code with AWS s3 and rest of tech stack, allowing for the application to be deployed

• Managed timeline for deployment and improvements with my manager. Final result was that most startups in the VC firm’s accelerator program ended up using this application
2020

Software Engineer Fellow,
GiveCrypto.

• Supported engineering development of the project application, which aims to create a donation based mobile app to help give cryptocurrency to the neediest in impoverished places throughout the world

• Taught myself TypeScript and GraphQL in my spare time, to help the team and contribute effectively
2018 - 2019

Content & Growth Marketer,
Shippa.

• Ran Facebook Ads while entrusted with a monthly budget, increasing notice for company's brand from under 5,000 views to more than 40,000 views

• Edited and wrote content on travel, commerce, and logistics, which was published on company's Medium blog
2016

Content & Growth Marketer,
Slapp Systems.

• Led growth marketing efforts using Facebook Ads, SEO research, and copywriting efforts through WordPress

• Created the startup’s initial website using Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript