Ashton Hsu: Developer

I am a backend developer with experience building out full stack web applications. I thrive in a collaborative work environment that encourages learning new technology and has a high standard for clean code. In my free time you can find me climbing rocks or soldering electronics.

SwensonHe Website

2018

This website was created with wordpress showcasing SwensonHe's past work. Site is responsive and was created with a wordpress theme from scratch

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Power Music

2018

Power Music involved migrating an existing Magento 1 e-commerce website to a new Magento 2 website. I was involved in writing a large portion of the new code base including back end logic for music mixing and subscription management

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Interactive Visualization of US Drug Usage (D3)

2015

This project uses D3 interactive maps to explore and find correlations between drug usage throughout the U.S. and other factors. We analyzed factors such as region, obesity, crime rate, and median income and attempted to find any relationship between them.

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Static Visualization of US Sport Championships(D3)

2015

This project also uses D3 to create a static visualization. It's goal was to visualize a general overview of which US cities had successful sport franchises.

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Food Chain - Game Created in Java

2015

I worked with a team of 5 to create a small game in Java over 4 months. Food Chain is about hunter who has to strategically capture pigs while avoiding wolves who want to eat him. We followed a process similar to agile development: we released and implemented user feedback in 2 week sprints. This was a fun project working with Java and an MVC

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Kulture - UX Study

2014

We designed and created a user experience around a specific user group through user research and feedback. Kulture is an application that provides a solution for helping immigrants to adapt quicker into a foreign environment by connecting them to organizations and events based on common interests. Note the link is only a mockup and does not have a functioning backend

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