About

Dickson Kwok is a highly motivated and detail-oriented software engineer with over five years of experience in both back and front-end technologies. He has a passion for writing clean and efficient code and is always eager to learn new technologies and effective practices. Currently working as a Software Engineer at Scribd, Dickson has a strong background in JavaScript, ES6, React, HTML, CSS, ExpressJS, Ruby on Rails, and databases such as Mongo and MySQL. In his previous role as a Teaching Assistant at Galvanize Inc, Dickson presented lectures covering computer science concepts, JavaScript fundamentals, best practices, higher-order functions, ES6, and the logical approach to problem-solving. He conducted code reviews and live debugging sessions to ensure students' technical readiness, performed technical mock interviews, and provided both technical and non-technical support for all students and staff to promote a productive and engaging experience. Dickson has also worked on personal projects, including WeatherBuddy, where he designed components to accept user input of complete or partial location names, implemented API calls to fetch weather data from MetaWeather API using given user input, and data-wrangled to output desired weekly weather information. He used a tech stack that included React.js, Node.js, Express.js, HTML/CSS, Styled Components, and Heroku. Dickson's education background includes a Full-Stack Software Engineering Immersive degree from Hack Reactor in 2019 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science from California State Polytechnic University in 2016. He has a strong technical background and experience in software engineering, JavaScript, Ruby, MySQL, MongoDB, frontend development, NodeJS, and ReactJS. Overall, Dickson Kwok is a skilled and dedicated software engineer with a passion for writing clean and efficient code. He is always eager to learn and grow, and his experience in both teaching and personal projects demonstrates his ability to work collaboratively and independently.