David Tang

5.0

(2 reviews)

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ABOUT ME

Senior Software Engineer | Author | Teacher

Hi, I’m David Tang. I’m a software engineer from Los Angeles. My expertise is in web technologies with professional working experience with Ember, Ember Data, JSON:API, and plain JavaScript. I value testing and test-driven development (TDD), convention over configuration, and embracing standards.

My passion lies on the front-end building great user experiences, but I also have professional experience on the backend working with PHP, Laravel, Node, and SQL.

I’m the author of the book Ember Data in the Wild and the SitePoint video course Test-Driven Development in Node.js.

I’m also a part-time lecturer at the University of Southern California, teaching web development courses to students from all backgrounds.

Outside of my tech life, I live a plant-based lifestyle, play ice hockey, and enjoy traveling the world with my wife.

Specialties: JavaScript, ES6, Ember, Ember Data, REST, JSON:API, TDD, QUnit

English

Pacific Time (US & Canada) (-08:00)

Joined October 2015

EXPERTISE

Ember Data

5 years experience

I've written several blog posts on customizing Ember Data on my blog and I've written a book on it called Ember Data in the Wild - https:...

I've written several blog posts on customizing Ember Data on my blog and I've written a book on it called Ember Data in the Wild - https://leanpub.com/emberdatainthewild

Ember.js

5 years experience | 2 endorsements

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0

(2 reviews)

Removed User

October 2020

So knowledgable, helped super quickly!

Darryl Bell

March 2018

This was our first session. I found David to very personable and easy to work with. I look forward to having many additional sessions with him as I continue to learn more about Ember.js.

SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

validatorjs

A data validation library in JavaScript for the browser and Node.js, inspired by Laravel's Validator.

JavaScript

1331

221

backbone-computed-properties

Add Ember style computed properties to your Backbone.js models

JavaScript

Community Posts

Unit Testing and TDD in Node.js – Part 1

Testing is an important practice in software development to improve software quality. There are many forms of testing; manual testing, acceptance testing, unit testing, and a few others. In this post we are going to look at unit testing in Node using the Mocha test framework.

EMPLOYMENTS

Part-Time Lecturer

University of Southern California

2011-08-01-Present

I teach web development courses in the evening for the Information Technology Program (ITP) in the Viterbi School of Engineering. Current...

I teach web development courses in the evening for the Information Technology Program (ITP) in the Viterbi School of Engineering. Currently I teach ITP 404 (a frontend class) in the Fall and ITP 405 (a backend class) in the Spring.

PHP

Node.js

Laravel

PHP

Node.js

Laravel

React

Ember.js

JavaScript

Senior Software Engineer

Verizon Digital Media Services / Oath / Yahoo!

2015-08-01-2019-09-01

Building a single page application for CDN configuration management and analytics

Angular

API

Testing

Angular

API

Testing

Test driven development

Ember.js

JavaScript

JSON API