Carina Kan

Skills

Projects

Curator  is a pixel-perfect tribute to Feedly, a popular news aggregator that parses RSS feeds, allowing users to bypass social media and advertisements while retaining access to their favorite articles. This web app enables users to create and view their own personalized news page, with their favorite topics and sites neatly organized in one place.

Github | Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, React/Redux, HTML, CSS

Features:

• User authentication
• Automated article scraping of RSS feeds
• Article detail and feed preview floating modal pop outs
• Follow, unfollow feeds
• Dynamic search bar
• Read/unread article marking, and recently read page

MoodyTunes  is a music-sharing site where users can find the perfect playlist for their mood. Each playlist has reaction upvotes which endorse that playlist's mood, and registered users can also follow their favorites for easy access.

Github | MERN stack: MongoDB, Express.js, Node.js, JavaScript, React/Redux, HTML, CSS

Features:

• User authentication
• Followable, embedded Spotify playlists
• User profile (for registered users)
• Live-updated reaction counts for playlists

About

UC Berkeley Engineering Physics grad-turned software developer, based in San Francisco. Previously built astronomical telescope components, now builds React components (and fluent in these technologies). Constantly learning and growing, finding ways to do things more efficiently, more elegantly, and more comprehensively.

I’ve always enjoyed solving complex problems with a mixture of analytical and creative thinking, and I particularly enjoy collaborating in a team to find clean, stable, and scalable solutions to user needs.

My most recent project is Curator, a news aggregator site inspired by Feedly, which uses Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on the back-end to scrape and store article data from RSS feeds, and JavaScript/React/Redux to render articles to the user on the front-end. I also used HTML and CSS to create a streamlined interface for users.

Outside of coding, I enjoy playing music, exploring the outdoors, cooking, and journalism.

Contact

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• AngelList
• Email

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