Full Stack Developer · San Francisco, CA

Claire Tong

Dream. Code. Build.

A full stack developer who turns live data, APIs and half-formed ideas into products people actually enjoy using.

Open to full stack roles

01. About

I'm a full stack developer who cares most about making data-heavy screens feel calm and fast: live APIs, charts and clean state.

I'm frontend first, building interfaces that feel fast and friendly, and full-stack ready with Node, Express and MongoDB when a project needs it. I also build cross-platform mobile apps with React Native, and I obsess over the details: loading states, errors and edge cases.

Off screen, I paint watercolors to unwind between commits — poppies, cherry blossoms and alpine meadows.

02. Featured work

Frontend · 2026

Loophaus

A landing page for a fictional sharing platform for music producers. It has an animated canvas waveform with a moving playhead, accessible audience tabs, an interactive track card, and support for reduced motion.

  • React
  • Canvas
  • ARIA

Mobile · 2026

2 Retro Prints

An iOS app that turns phone photos into print-ready Instax-style frames in a few taps. I designed, built, and released it to the App Store on my own.

  • React Native
  • TypeScript
  • Expo

Full-stack · 2021

MERN Storefront

A full shopping flow I built end to end: an Express REST API with JWT auth and admin routes, category and price filters, a cart, and Braintree checkout.

  • React
  • Node · Express
  • MongoDB
  • JWT
  • Braintree

Frontend · 2026

Personal Website

A single-page React portfolio that presents projects as engineering decisions and embeds my AI digital twin so visitors can chat with it.

  • React
  • Vite
  • Vercel
  • Hugging Face

This site · 2026

ASCII Jellyfish

The animated background of this site: jellyfish drawn as text on a 2D canvas that drift toward your cursor, built with Next.js as a static export.

  • Canvas
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js

03. Now

04. Chat with my digital twin

An AI version of me that knows my background, projects and career goals. Ask it anything you'd ask in a first call, any time of day.

Answers are AI-generated, so confirm the important stuff with the real me.

05. Let's build something awesome together

Hiring for a full stack role, or have a project in mind? My inbox is always open.