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My Blog

My personal blog about self-improvement, freelancing, and startups.

Technologies:: Roots, React.js, Foundation, ES6, SCSS

Persona

Help businesses gain a deep understanding of their customers by marrying their payments data and customer database with social data from around the web.

Created as part of:

Money 20/20 Hackathon 2017

Technologies:

React Native, Expo, ES6

Worked with:

Abi Raja
Bonnie Ding

StayReponsive

Responsive site tester. Check how your website looks on desktop, tablet, and smartphone.

Technologies:: Express.js, React.js, Bootstrap, ES6, SCSS, Heroku

Thumlapse

Daily snapshots of websites over time. Screenshots generated by Thum.io.

Technologies:: Express.js, Sequelize, React.js, Bootstrap, ES6, SCSS, Heroku, PostgreSQL

ODResponse

Deliver naloxone to people experiencing an overdose, by partnering with driver-based services (e.g. taxis, food delivery) and having their drivers deliver naloxone in emergency situations.

Created as part of:

The 2016 FDA Naloxone App Competition

Technologies:

React Native, Expo, ES6, Firebase

golmansax/naloxnow

Worked with:

Roger Wong

Responsibilities:

App prototyping and development

Grid Option

An analytics platform built for utility companies to display and visualize current solar adoption rates in a particular region.

Created as part of:

Powerhouse SunCode Solar Hackathon 2016

Technologies:

Express.js, Google Maps API, JavaScript, MongoDB

golmansax/grid-option

Worked with:

Andrew Breyer
Cheryl Zhang
Jefferson Teng jeffersonteng
Kala Viswanathan

Responsibilities:

Use Google Maps API to plot every house that installed solar in Bakersfield, CA
Integrate Zillow neighborhood data to compute aggregate solar data for a neighborhood

Quarry

Autocomplete as a service for e-commerce sites. For the demo, we used a Chrome extension to hack the search on Walmart.com to point to our API (indexed with Walmart's data).

Created as part of:

SF Disrupt Hackathon 2015

Technologies:

Chrome extension, Express.js, React.js, CSS Modules, ES6, Bash

golmansax/funnel

Worked with:

Roger Wong
Stephen Ball stephenball1

Responsibilities:

Built out API skeleton
Created frontend to interface with the API
Styled frontend to look like Walmart's search

Press:

Video of demo given on stage
Honorable mention for the Walmart Labs sponsor prize

Circl Dating App

A social dating app designed so you can be involved with choosing your friend's dates.

Created as part of:

LAUNCH Hackathon 2015

Technologies:

Android, Java, Firebase

stephenball1/Twinkle

Worked with:

Judy Mou judymou
Roger Wong
Stephen Ball stephenball1

Responsibilities:

Create model structure for binding Firebase to app
Build out chat, profile, and login views
General performance optimizations

Press:

Winner of the Firebase sponsor prize

Personal Site

Collection of pages including my homepage, my giving pledge, andthe languages that I know

Technologies:: Phenomic, React.js, ES6, CSS Modules
golmansax/personal-site

My Portfolio

A portfolio of projects that I have worked on.

Technologies:: Express.js, React.js, ES6, Stylus
golmansax/portfolio

Office Street View

Navigate through an office and meet the employees!

Created as part of:: Internal Room 77 hackathon
Technologies:: AngularJS 1, jQuery, JavaScript, SCSS, PHP
golmansax/office-street-view

Battlecode 2015 (Team Zasshu)

An autonomous program that plays the computer game Battlecode; this year's version had rules similar to a real-time strategy game.

Created as part of:

Battlecode 2015

Technologies:

Java

y4n9squared/battlecode

Worked with:

Yang Yang y4n9squared

Responsibilities:

Developing and coding game strategy

My Gear

A simple site used to track my clothing purchases and to help keep me in line with my minimalist philosophies.

Technologies:: Rails, React.js, Immutable.js, GraphQL, Bootstrap, Ruby, JavaScript, SCSS, Heroku, PostgreSQL
golmansax/my-gear

Todo App Project

Whenever I am interested in learning a new technology, I like to use it to create a simple todo app. This lets me work out the kinks of the technology on a small scale app, and makes it easier to compare implementations directly.

React Native – one repo for iOS, Android, and web (app in progress)
golmansax/todo-app-in-react-native
Stack used at Chalk Schools – Rails, Backbone + React.js, Haml, Bootstrap + Sass
golmansax/todo-app-with-chk
Rails, React.js + Flux, Bootstrap + Sass
golmansax/todo-app-in-rails-flux
Django (app in progress)
golmansax/todo-app-in-django
Scalatra (Scala), MongoDB
golmansax/todo-app-in-scalatra
Beego (Go), SQLite (app in progress)
golmansax/todo-app-in-beego

Volunteering

I try to stay involved with the community through volunteering. My main volunteering focus is in helping underserved communities with math/science education.

Organizations I have worked with:

Bridge to Enter Mathematics, Mentor
New York, NY: Oct ’17 – Current
Queens Xperience Social Hackathon, Mentor
Queens, NY: Dec ’16
Mission Graduates, Math Tutor
San Francisco, CA: Mar ’14 – May ’16
Building Diversity in Science, Board Advisor
Oakland, CA: June ’15 – May ’16
The Science & Health Education Partnership, STEMfest Volunteer
San Francisco, CA: Mar ’16
First Graduate, Academic Coach
San Francisco, CA: Nov ’14 – Oct ’15
Eastside High School, Math Tutor
East Palo Alto, CA: Mar ’13 – Nov ’13
Ronald McDonald House, CLIK Room Supervisor
Palo Alto, CA: Mar ’13 – Nov ’13
Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries, ImaginAsia Family Program
Washington, DC: June ’06 – May ’12

My Impact Pledge

I created this site to document an impact pledge I made after obtaining my undergraduate degree. Instead of splurging on my birthday, I give a personally significant donation to organizations that I feel are making a positive impact in youth education.

Technologies:: Express.js, React.js, CSS Modules, ES6, Heroku
golmansax/my-impact-pledge

Human-Centered Design

A few friends and I took a human-centered design course offered by +Acumen and IDEO on creating effective solutions for social change. Our project brainstorm was on promoting healthy eating in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco, CA. Check out the presentation detailing our project!

Worked with:

Hannah Yang
Melanie Gin

Responsibilities:

Conduct interviews in the Tenderloin to understand feelings towards healthy food
Brainstorm ideas based on insights gained from user research
Create user personas and a project prototype