A person with a simple website

Richard Hoa

I can do tech work, I care about sustainability

What can I do for you?

• Web Development & Project Implementation
  • Working independently with your UX/UI designer to manage the project timeline and meet your deadline without constant supervision.
  • Explaining technical trade-offs in plain, non-technical language so everyone on the team can easily make confident business decisions.
  • Implementing visitor tracking and running stress tests so you know exactly how much traffic the website can handle.
  • Building accessible websites that comply strictly with global WCAG standards.
  • My main focus is robust implementation rather than visual design, proving my capabilities through diverse projects:
    • A complex ROAD website featuring custom data collection and analysis.
    • A visual-focused advertising tools site and an animation-focused Boi Kieu project.
    • A digital gallery utilizing the IIIF standard, showcasing my ability to learn and deploy new technologies rapidly.
  • You can review the full breakdown of tools and frameworks I use in my technical resume.
• Product Testing
  • Catching hidden bugs before users do by writing comprehensive test scripts, executing them, and generating clear reports. A deeper understanding of the system eliminates false positives so the team only spends time fixing actual issues.
  • Bringing real-world debugging experience from professional projects, including detecting more than 30 bugs—with 5 critical bugs missed by the engineering team—while doing freelance testing for Shottr.
  • Using automation to make the tesing process faster and less error-prone, such as building an automated test suite for the ROAD website that runs on every new publish to catch broken features instantly.
• On-Site & Virtual Event Technical Support
  • Handling the technical side of events so organizers can focus entirely on the audience without worrying about glitches, while staying flexible on-site to fix hardware or connection issues in real time before they disrupt the flow.
  • Managing equipment, slides, sound systems, and hybrid setups for physical events, with a track record of supporting large-scale university days at Fulbright University Vietnam with over 200 participants each, alongside running 10 different events for the Vietnam Studies Center for 30 to 50 attendees.
  • Keeping Zoom events smooth, and professional by preventing interruptions and handling background logistics, based on supporting 3 virtual events for ROAD with 500 to 700 attendees where tasks included managing room security, spotlighting speakers, setting up breakout rooms, and running live polls.
• Data analysis & Automation
  • Cleaning, filtering, and analyzing raw datasets to extract clear business insights, while providing critical context on data limitations, potential biases, and the technical details needed to reproduce and verify the results.
  • Processing complex data pipelines and generating statistical reports, with experience analyzing over 700,000 Vietnamese LinkedIn professional profiles for Fulbright's Career Services to feed a Graph RAG pipeline, alongside extracting required insights from the data outputs of ROAD’s large-scale Zoom events with up to 700 participants.
  • Automating tedious, manual workflows to save teams hours of administrative time—such as setting up systems where checking a box instantly triggers and sends transactional emails, and picking up whatever new tool or formula is necessary to get the job done efficiently.

Contact information

• Link to my Facebook
• Link to my Github
• Link to my LinkedIn

Working style

• Responding promptly within 24 hours to all messages and communications.
• Maintaining complete transparency by never ghosting and communicating availability clearly, ensuring that if a deadline is ever at risk, an explanation and a clear plan of action are sent immediately.
• Confirming the explicit Scope of Work (SOW) and expected outcomes with everyone involved before any tasks are started to ensure total alignment.

Work-related projects

• ROAD Education - Profesisonal website I've done for an education startup
• Quang Cao Day - AI ads generator
• Nu Gioi Chuong - Implement IIIF standard to deliver images

Cultural-related projects

• Ca Dao (Vietnamese Folk Poetry) - Search among the vast of 4,500 Vietnamese folk poetry based on theme and meaning and more!
• Boi Kieu (Kieu fortune telling)

Technical-related projects

• Hack-me - frontend built in Svelte, backend in Go
• SPA from scratch - my effort to understand SPA
• Go Network Latency Visualizer - just to satisfy my need to do some networking stuff

Why where is no style in this website?

Because there is no need to, it's a website that's blazingly fast, work on every single browser imaginable, full accessibility feature

This website is created to showcase my project, and it does just that, and nothing else, there is no compatibility error, no Virtual DOM problem, no build step, no Docker, nothing.

But it works

It's the kind of page that makes you want to weep tears of joy and throw your overpriced JavaScript framework out the window. It's the kind of page that makes you want to quit your job and become a full-time HTML evangelist. It's the kind of page that makes you want to start a cult dedicated to the worship of HTML. It's the kind of page that makes you want to write a love letter to HTML and send it to the HTML gods. It's the kind of page that makes you want to build a shrine to HTML in your living room and invite all your friends over for a candlelit HTML worship session. It's the kind of page that makes you want to start a YouTube channel dedicated to HTML tutorials and rants. It's the kind of page that makes you want to write a book about HTML and self-publish it on Amazon. It's the kind of page that makes you want to start a TikTok account dedicated to HTML and post daily HTML dance videos. It's the kind of page that makes you want to start a LinkedIn account dedicated to HTML and connect with other HTML professionals.

— Just Fucking Use HTML