Welcome to Richard Duong's Portfolio

I'm a web specialist with over 20 years of building professionally in tech which includes; networking, building & maintaining web applications, data analysis, automating solutions, marketing, payment gateways, APIs, problem solving, cyber security, UI/UX design, version control, automated deployment, sales, and customer service.

On my road of becoming a tech professional, I've worked with 100s of developers spanning across dozens of companies, and have managed teams of up to 12 others on a single web application that I started on my own.

When it comes to building for the web, my beliefs are quite simple. To come up with simple solutions for complex problems.

I don't believe there is ever one best way of doing things but rather, there are ways of designing & structuring applications to make it easy for everyone to participate.

I love what I do & my goal with everything I do in tech is to simplify ways of future proofing & scaling business applications.

No one programming language is superior than another. Just ones ability to build, and to have the courage to do what others consider impossible. Business objectives, being on time, and if possible, implementing basic foundations that any one person can build upon is the key to the future.

With that being said, I'm not a very technical person. If you ask me math questions, rhetorical, or theoritical questions on non-related business objectives, I most likely will not be able to give you an answer you're looking for but if you ask me anything business related, I can give you robust answers in a timely manner.

I can understand any data structures upon investigation & exploration. I can build upon any web applications. I can rebuild any web application quickly upon sight, and I can scale any web applications to handle high frequency demands. I've been programming since the year 2000 (12 years old), and have built my own PHP framework since the age of 15 that is very similar to the Laravel framework.

The doorway to entry to many tech companies nowadays is too technical and not hands on enough. I've noticed that this problem tends to cause major losses to companies that are seeking talent & growth.

I am a human being first and foremost. I believe everyone deserves a chance to prove what they are capable of and a chance to show their desire to grow in whichever company they choose to be a part of. If you ask me what is impossible to build, I will tell you everything is possible to build because I have done what others considered impossible countless of times. Sometimes alone, sometimes with a team but I'm always ready for the next challenge.

Outside of tech, I'm into competing in sports, MMA, fitness, health, cars, motorcycles, and travel.

HTML

CSS

Javascript

Jquery

Ajax

PHP

SQL

Docker

GIT

AWS

Laravel

ASP.NET

C#

Python