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Targeting position and project of
Software Engineering
Object-Oriented Design and Analysis | API, Website and Mobile App Development
Software Project Maintenance | Hardware-related IoT Project | Technology-related Invention
Solutions-driven developer with 10+ years of experience in analysing code and engineering well-researched, cost-effective, secure and responsive solutions.
Detail-oriented programmer developing comprehensive source code and technical documentation.
Technical leader and project coordinator driving system architecture decisions and leading teams and projects from concept through the release process.
Best practice follower with experience in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and application in SDLC implementation.
Work Experience
Labwork Technology Limited (Hong Kong)
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) (Apr 2018 to Sep 2024)
Labwork offers real-time online remote laboratory setups for students to perform experiments at their own pace, anytime and anywhere. Labwork also offers STEM workshops to primary schools, secondary schools and universities.
Accomplishments:
Spinned off an university research project to a commercial self sustained company with university-licensed IP
Admitted to Hong Kong Science Park Incubation Programme with over HK$1M funding support (~ £103K)
Awarded the Cert of Merit in Hong Kong ICT Awards 2019 (Smart People - Smart Education and Learning), for bringing positive improvement in teaching and learning of science education
Stood out from 56 teams and as semi-finalist of Reimagine Education Challenge organised by Esperanza, an education-focused community formed by John Tsang, former Financial Secretary of HK Government
Duties:
Managed the entire day-to-day business operations
Developed, maintained, upgraded and supported commercial Remote Laboratory
Developed and delivered STEM workshops to primary and secondary schools
Enhanced the real-time webcam HTTP streaming with better hardware deployment and software configuration
Provided technical trainings to internships
Developed hardware and software for clients
Software Engineer (May 2016 to Feb 2018)
An HKEx-listed company specializing in the development of industry-grade network products, including switches, routers, and access points, equipped with cloud management features. The company has a strong global presence, serving clients whose services are integral to daily life for countless users worldwide.
Accomplishments:
Discovered the login design fault and implemented new login approach to harden authentication security
Discovered real-time server hacking and tracked down the hacker identity
Set up the machine-independent environment for other team members
Migrated 8-year SVN repositories to Git, fixed the use of tags and branches and retained the repositories' histories
Set up code review for the team
Duties:
Built APIs for frontend, mobile apps and third-party developers with large-scale Java server
Developed portal server for building and serving portal resources for different network products
Set up and maintained servers on centralising logs for different servers behind load balancers
Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)
Project Assistant / Project Associate (June 2014 to April 2016)
Inspired by the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT), the Department of Applied Physics (AP) has launched a centralised depository of selected physics experiments, named Remote Laboratory.
Accomplishments:
Seamlessly integrated Remote Laboratory to other third-party learning management systems
Introduced and applied new infrastructure to reduce each equipment cost by over 90%
Built RESTful APIs among the main platform, clients and hardware
Introduced and adopted SCM to the hardware code team
Brought whole platform development under CI using Jenkins
Won the “Reimagine Education Asia Gold Award” in 2016, first-of-its-kind in Asia
Officially recognised as one of the Inventor of the system
Got media coverage on several local news
Duties:
Developed, maintained, upgraded and supported Remote Laboratory
Coordinated design and implementation of the system infrastructure
Collaborated with hardware team, Education Bureau of Hong Kong Government and secondary school representatives to ensure on-time completion of project deliverables
Provided technical leadership to other web and software developers
SinoGael Technologies Limited (Hong Kong)
Software Programmer (June 2012 to May 2013)
SinoGael Technologies Limited is a graduated company of HKSTP. SinoGael is a software development company specialised in digital document processing and integration. It developed a digital receipt platform, easyceipt.
Accomplishments:
Attained IT Solution Excellence in Biz.IT Excellence 2013, organised by PC Market
Experienced in all phases of SDLC
Adopted scrum in the software development process and contributed as a scrum player
Duties:
Contributed software engineering expertise in the R&D of easyceipt through SDLC, from requirements definition through successful deployment
Developed Android Apps for customers and merchants
Education
School of Continuing and Professional Education at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK SCOPE)
2024 Certificate for Module in Certified Ethical Hacker
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2010 - 2014 Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Internet and Multimedia Technologies (IMT)
2008 - 2010 Higher Diploma in Electronic and Information Engineering (HDEIE)