Backend Engineer

Tommy Ngo

Self-taught backend engineer. Node/Express, PostgreSQL, security-first REST APIs. Open-source contributor.

Also: found and fixed a bug in csv-parser, a 1.5k★ npm package — PR open.

Projects

Live

Twitter Bookmark Organizer

Multi-user REST API — JWT auth, BOLA-safe row scoping, tiered rate limiting.

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • PostgreSQL
  • JWT
Live GitHub Case study
Live

World Cup Data Pipeline

CSV-to-PostgreSQL ingestion pipeline — chunked batch inserts, idempotent upserts, Redis cache-aside.

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
Live GitHub Case study