Konan Houphoue

Konan Houphoue has a diverse work experience spanning over several years. Konan started their career in 1997 at CNA Insurance, where they worked as a Messaging Security Analyst and Systems Engineer for over a decade. During this time, they developed a tool to manage permissions in MS Active Directory and implemented security measures to protect email from malware threats. Konan also collaborated with the Legal Department to ensure systems compliance and obtained security clearances for application integration.

In 2012, Konan joined Avanade as a Systems Engineer. Here, they maintained PowerShell backup scripts and improved team efficiency by documenting internal development processes. Konan also implemented SCOM optimized failure alert thresholds to reduce false positive monitoring alerts.

From 2016 to 2019, Konan worked as a Freelance Photographer.

In 2016, Konan joined MetaWinds, LLC as a Software Engineer. In this role, they implemented a large eCommerce application using React/Redux, React Hooks, React Context API, and React Saga middleware.

Most recently, in 2022, Konan joined EstateSpace as a Frontend Developer.

Konan Houphoue earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Loyola University Chicago from 1993 to 1997. In 2015 to 2016, Houphoue pursued further education in web development by completing a Full Stack Web Developer program at Udacity. Additionally, Houphoue obtained various certifications, including "Build Websites APIs from Scratch," "Test-Driven Development," "Build Front-End Web Apps from Scratch," "Build Websites from Scratch," "Grow with Google Challenge Scholarship," "The Data Scientist’s Toolbox," "An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python (Part 2)," and "CompTIA Security+." Houphoue also completed the "Google Mobile Web Specialist" and "Shaping up with Angular.js" courses, although the dates of completion are unspecified.