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Tony Yung

Software Engineer | 10+ years' experience

https://tony.theyung.com | +44 7543 287218 | tony+freelance@mail.theyung.com | Southampton, UK


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.

Technical proficiencies include:

  • Platfroms and IDEs:

    Windows macOS Linux VS Code IntelliJ IDEA
  • Languages:

    Dart CSS3 HTML5 Java GraphQL JavaScript Markdown LaTeX Perl Python PHP Shell Script
  • Hosting:

    AWS Cloudflare Google Cloud Firebase
  • Frameworks / Platforms / Libraries:

    Ant-Design Bootstrap Eleventy Django Directus DaisyUI Chart.js DjangoREST Flask Flutter Hugo JWT jQuery Laravel NPM OpenCV RabbitMQ SpringSpring Boot Strapi TailwindCSS WordPress Yarn NumPy Pandas
  • Servers:

    Apache Apache Maven Apache Tomcat Jenkins Nginx
  • Databases / ORM:

    MariaDB MongoDB MySQL Redis SQLite
  • Design:

    Adobe Adobe Acrobat Reader Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe Illustrator Adobe Fonts Figma Canva
  • CI/CD VCS:

    Git TravisCI Apache Subversion Bitbucket GitHub
  • Others:

    Arduino Gradle Espressif Pi-Hole Mosquitto Postman Raspberry Pi Twilio Swagger SonarQube SonarLint Vagrant

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

An HKEx-listed company

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)


References Available Upon Request

Portfolio and Projects Accessible in Personal Website