Calvin Dong
ethical tech + software
Work
Current - Software Engineer
Software Engineer for the Agent Platform team - working on support products.
Fullstack Engineer
Software Engineer for the scheduling team at an a16z backed unicorn startup. Scoped, architected, and built features to staff care professionals with our elderly population more efficiently.
Software Engineering Intern
SWE Intern for Slack's desktop engineering team. Key contributor to Slack's drag and drop file upload features as well as various stability improvements.
Fellow
SWE Intern for Cardstack, Inc. Also was a dual project manager/developer for HackNY's Social Good Initiative, where our team coded & delivered a fully featured web portal to our tech-for-good partner, all while working at our full-time internships.
Software Engineering Intern
SWE Intern for A360 Drive. Built a robust data dashboard to monitor the health of all of A360's services all in one place. Also contributed to key test suite improvements and had some time to do AR/VR explorations with the developer evangelist team.
blueprint
Developer, PM, VP of Projects
Member of a student-run org building software applications for nonprofits pro-bono. By graduation, teams I worked with had delivered 3 web applications to 3 separate nonprofits.
Social Good Projects
Cognitive Toybox
Cognitive Toybox had a problem - how do they effectively communicate their data on student assessment outcomes to school officials? As a part of HackNY's Social Good Initiative, I led a team to create a web portal to communicate this information in a straightforward way via React.
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SF Arts Institute
For the nonprofit San Francisco Arts Institute, their students were facing difficulties getting their art sold and exhibited. As a part of Cal Blueprint, I was a key developer on a team that built an online registry where patrons can buy, rent, or express interest in student art.
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Replate
Replate is a nonprofit that works on food insecurity - namely, they collect unused food from various locations and donate it to shelters all around the SF Bay Area. As a part of Cal Blueprint, our team created a web dashboard where clients with unused food can schedule pickups directly with Replate, replacing the bloated Excel spreadsheets they used to use.
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Awards and Misc.
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Selected as a member of Backend Capital's first hacker residency, for engineers who are creating startups. Founded Afterword as a part of the program and received a 50,000$ investment.
Founder
Co-founded and coded Afterword from scratch, working alongside my design co-founder, Jess. Scaled the product to 500 users before shutting down.
Fellow
Selected to OnDeck's 8th Founder Fellowship , a prestigious network for founders. I was the second youngest fellow in my cohort.
2016 LinkedIn HackDay Finalist
Selected to the top 10 of LinkedIn's HackDay, an open hackathon for tech interns in the Bay Area. Built API integrations for our project Small World, a 3d data visualization of your Facebook friend network.