Who I've Worked With

• SimpleFloors•Pfizer•Cienna•GoTutor•GamerNorth

  SimpleFloors

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  SimpleFloors is a flooring company based in the US boasting several retail outlets. I was tasked with maintaining their Magento-based e-commerce website and ERP for many years, and eventually created a bespoke solution to replace Magento.

  Pfizer

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  Pfizer is a major pharmaceutical company based in the United States. I have worked with Pfizer on several internal projects covering a range of domains from supply chain to finance.

  Cienna

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  Cienna is a jewelery startup with a focus on women's fashion. The founder needed a customised e-commerce solution for the Swedish market. I came up with a frontend utilising Shopify which highlighted the elegance and vision of the brand while being user friendly.

  GoTutor

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  GoTutor was an educational platform which connected students in Hong Kong with vetted language tutors. I helped coordinate and lead a team to build both the website and mobile application.

  GamerNorth

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  GamerNorth was a gaming startup with a focus on Minecraft which was known for "Super-Earth," one of the largest MC servers of its time. The founder approached me to help maintain high-demand gaming servers and implement new features for the company's in-game experience. I developed a dashboard that allows players to modify their in-game Minecraft characters from a web portal — possibly the first of its kind.

Selected Skills

• React / JavaScript / SQL / Neo4J / .NET / Rust / Perl

My Projects

• Blockchain implemented in C

  Just for fun, I implemented a basic proof of work blockchain in C.

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• Curls

  A handlebars-inspired templating engine with lexer and compiler which transpiles to JavaScript, allowing logical expressions.

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• StatiCTON

  A basic static site generator with support for templating and iteration. It's amazing what you can do in under 250 lines of code.

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The Blog

• Melodies within melodies: an essay on counterpoint and the guitar

  20 Mar

  As a student of the guitar, there have been several eureka moments since I first picked one up. One of the biggest of such moments was when I discovered contrapuntal techniques - essential learning for anyone aspiring to master the guitar.

  (Music)

• How to build a full-text search engine

  30 Apr

  Full-text search engines might seem like a scary undertaking, but they're actually pretty simple. Using tf-idf we can generate rankings quite easily.

  (Programming)

• Ideas for improvements on the romanisation of Hangeul

  1 May

  I believe the romanisation of Korean could improve a whole lot more with some simple changes.

  (Language)