Hello, welcome to my website. I'm a former graduate and proud alumni from The University of Texas at San Antonio where I studied Business, Communication and Psychology. Alongside these formal studies, my passion for technology has led me to amount a proficient skillset developing web applications as a medium outlet for creative projects. Recent commercial development experience has motivated me to seek out further experience in both industry and freelance opportunities.
Frontend Engineer | Funnel Boost Media
Sept. 2022 to Oct. 2024
This most recent experience placed me on a fast paced team of developers solving problems and building out projects for an agency serving 90+ clients. My web development skills were challenged not only to configure PHP 8 Servers, and proficiently build out end to end, tested WordPress sites; but also execute agile feature rollouts using HTML/CSS PHP/JS in Wordpress Core files, numerous Wordpress plugin files, and Shopify Liquid theme files. I was continuously learning in this role, pivoting between troubleshooting server resource problems, plugin conflicts, and agile website edits – utilizing a diversity of web development skills among UI/UX and contributing to ongoing code contributions to internal company projects using ReactJS.
Single Page Web Applications with AngularJS | Coursera
Jul. 2021 to Aug. 2021
A self-motivated initiaitive to expand on my web devleopment skill set with the ability to write powerful, maintainable, and testable front-end applications faster and with less code under John Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering. Throughout this project, I explored the core design of AngularJS through extending the functionality of web apps with dependency injection to reuse existing AnagularJS services, as well as create custom services designed with unique functionality. Background data binding to give reusability to HTML elements, and ways to extend the HTML syntax with directives. I tied this project together with SPA multiple views implemented through routing and used several methods to unit test this functionality. Applied all these AngularJS specificities to build a fully functional, well-organized, and tested web application deployed on the cloud with Heroku.
HTML, CSS, & Javascript for Web Developers | Coursera
Apr. 2021 to May. 2021
An online bootcamp offered by John Hopkins University. This 5 week course is developed by the Whiting School of Engineering and is specially designed for those with a background in Computer Science. We learn the basic tools that every web page coder needs to know. From the ground up, we learned how to implement modern web pages with HTML5 and CSS3. We then advanced to learning how to code our pages such that their components rearrange and resize themselves automatically based on the size of the user’s screen. Lastly, we were introduced to Javascript and used it to build a fully functional web application that utilizes Ajax to expose server-side functionality and data to the end user.
Web Developer/Designer| L & R Bakeries
May. 2020 to Sep. 2020
This project was completed in close collaboration with local business owners as their web developer/designer. I created visually driven client-side web pages utilizing CSS & HTML stylesheets designed to retain customers and utilized SEO tools to provide data on the overall health and success of a website. Webstore interface designed to handle transactions; digitize client-side scheduling synced to their calendar. Conceptualizing process of this project was done in close collaboration with my clients as their web developer/designer. Check it out here: www.yummytummypastries.com
Personal Website
I built this website to further my skills with HTML5 and CSS3 in Bootstrap 4. I plan to push further updates as I continue to learn more about web development and see to highlight new experiences/projects.
Check out my Github for this project and others:
GITHUB
David Chu's Chinese Bistro
Structured web pages with HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap 4 framework for responsiveness and usage of Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) with Ajax for faster and dynamic loading of menu and home page content.
Audiophile Demo
This interactive project began as a static collection of "formative" David Bowie records which visibly sits just below and
only works interactively on desktop. Since then the project has been reimagined and developed into an empty 3D record box that safely and dynmically "shelves" 11 of your last
saved records from Spotify, upon signing in. I think it requires Spotify Premium to work properly so I'll throw up a middle finger with anyone who that effects, however theres a power which lives in
the ability to punch holes in reality and step into new worlds so count on the following updates to develop this recordbox into a new economic engine for music culture- Apple music compatibility; mailbox functionality for users to
slip personalized flyers/concert tickets/frinedly messages between the record sleeves of friend's record box; personal list of concerts attended and carved onto the dedicated concert view side of the record box; accumulated collection of personal flyer's collaged and showcased
on the dedicated flyer view side of the record box; record shelf access to store your own as well as frined's record boxes for sociability. Email me if you are intrested in funding or investing in the future of music culture and would like to hear more, but for now
this is all the sauce I'm allowing this public portfolio. Also email me if you have experience in game design/development and either want to be apart of the project or want to strike up
conversation about developing- for these tech people consider the model is built using Blender and programmed in Three.js with liberal use of AI. Thanks for reading and/or trying out the record box and maybe I'll hear from you
so Ciao for now and cheers to music! :D
"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring" - David Bowie
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Feb. 2025 to Present