Ben Liong
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Experience
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Crypto.com
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Singapore
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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VP of Engineering
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Jul 2019 - 4 years 6 months
United Kingdom We are looking for passionate iOS, Android, and Golang / rails developers to join us in Hong Kong or Shenzhen. Our goal: To accelerating the world's transition to cryptocurrency. hashtag#cryptocurrency #crypto.com hashtag#golang hashtag#rails hashtag#shenzhen
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Mobile Lead
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Dec 2018 - 5 years 1 month
Hong Kong
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TIDEiSun Group
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Hong Kong
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Media Production
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
Hong Kong Versatile and product-focused software enthusiast
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Gaifong
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Hong Kong
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Consumer Services
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Senior Mobile Engineer
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Feb 2016 - Feb 2018
Management of software development process.
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Chexology
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United States
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Hospitality
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Consultant
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Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Greater New York City Area Chexology provides a trustworthy SaaS for bailment storage and short-term rentals. Developed from CoatChex, seen on ABC’s Shark Tank, the platform seamlessly connects business owners with their now visible customers. - Provide solution to performance issue in software platform. Migrate backend infrastructure from Magento to Go, and take android application development in-house from outsourced remote team in India. - Work with a team of 3 to resolve long-standing sync issue in 3 weeks in… Show more Chexology provides a trustworthy SaaS for bailment storage and short-term rentals. Developed from CoatChex, seen on ABC’s Shark Tank, the platform seamlessly connects business owners with their now visible customers. - Provide solution to performance issue in software platform. Migrate backend infrastructure from Magento to Go, and take android application development in-house from outsourced remote team in India. - Work with a team of 3 to resolve long-standing sync issue in 3 weeks in anticipation to processing New Years Eve peak usage (10 million items processed). Show less
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Bindo Labs
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Hong Kong
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Application Architect
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Sep 2014 - Nov 2015
Hong Kong Bindo is a $3M seed-funded point-of-sale leader with 3,000 merchants in New York and Hong Kong - Mentor/Lead 5 iOS dev, on-site and remotely, via Skype Chat Group - Completed new Restaurant feature in 3 weeks (orig. scheduled for 2 months) - Hardware: Integrated Ingenico mobile smart terminal and UniMag Credit Card Reader - Hardware: Integrated Hong Kong NFC Contactless payment system “Octopus”, created SDK for internal and partner use. (SDK Lib in Swift, nodejs, objective-c) -… Show more Bindo is a $3M seed-funded point-of-sale leader with 3,000 merchants in New York and Hong Kong - Mentor/Lead 5 iOS dev, on-site and remotely, via Skype Chat Group - Completed new Restaurant feature in 3 weeks (orig. scheduled for 2 months) - Hardware: Integrated Ingenico mobile smart terminal and UniMag Credit Card Reader - Hardware: Integrated Hong Kong NFC Contactless payment system “Octopus”, created SDK for internal and partner use. (SDK Lib in Swift, nodejs, objective-c) - Hardware: Integrated POWA, Epson thermal printer, Brecknell and Honeywell Industrial scale - Real-time Sync: designed and implemented real-time synchronisation between POS and Customer Display, and on syncing between multiple POS systems. Based on Socket.io persistent connection, any time a table information is changed on one POS, the change is immediately propagated to the rest of the POS in the store - Automation: Implemented Automated testing based on KIF, Jenkins and later Xcode Server. Show less
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General Assembly
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Instructor for Mobile App Development Part Time
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May 2015 - Aug 2015
Hong Kong - The Class: Teaching Swift to a class of 16, from no coding experience to having a final project of their own complete with network connectivity (using parse) - Each 3 hours class was an intermix between 45 minutes of lecture on theory and hands-on exercises. Homework was issued to students every two weeks with one mid-term project (implementing the iOS Calculator) and one final project of which students can propose the app they want to work on. - Topics: Basic Logics, variables… Show more - The Class: Teaching Swift to a class of 16, from no coding experience to having a final project of their own complete with network connectivity (using parse) - Each 3 hours class was an intermix between 45 minutes of lecture on theory and hands-on exercises. Homework was issued to students every two weeks with one mid-term project (implementing the iOS Calculator) and one final project of which students can propose the app they want to work on. - Topics: Basic Logics, variables, concept of optionals and nil, conditions and loops, iOS App Lifecycle, debugging basics, simple networking, using Parse as data storage, Geolocation and MKMapView. - Student Projects: ATM Locator, Pet social network, Night-life POS System, Group reminder app, - Achieved a 90% positive approval ratings in students’ exit tickets Show less
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Cherrypicks
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Information Technology & Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Front-end lead, HSBC Consumer (iOS/Android) App
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Sep 2013 - Sep 2014
Hong Kong - Lead a team of 3 iOS dev and 2 android dev - Implemented Global ATM & Branch Locator for HSBC, and personalised portfolio display - App Optimisation: reduced time for first time launch from 20 seconds down to 5 seconds (re-architected asset-download logic and moved all downloads to background threads, and on a on-demand basis) - Integration: integrated with third-party analytics framework Yodlee
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Project Manager, Aberdeen Tunnel PA System Replacement Project
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Sep 2012 - Sep 2013
Hong Kong - Managed suppliers and sub-contractors to replace the existing Public Announcement System for Aberdeen Tunnel. - Finished the System Renewal project 80% under budget on a one-year schedule.
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Project Manager
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Jan 2005 - Sep 2012
Hong Kong Tung Po is a end-to-end system integrators working for clients such as Hong Kong Mass Transit Railways, Transport Departments and Legislative Council. - Mentor/Lead a software team of 5 in Beijing, on-site and remotely - Projects: CCTV System for 6 Subway Stations in Hong Kong, consulted for 2 subways stations in Bangkok. Voting System for Hong Kong Legislative Council
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Field Sales Engineer
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Jun 2003 - Oct 2004
S.A. Responsible for advertising and marketing initiative to increase awareness and site traffic, and general customer sales and support. · Designed and implemented Edo Performances web store, integrated web store data into Intuits Quickbook to improve overall operation efficiency · Coordinated with magazines, auto-show hosts and various Internet discussion forums in the effort. Edo … Show more S.A. Responsible for advertising and marketing initiative to increase awareness and site traffic, and general customer sales and support. · Designed and implemented Edo Performances web store, integrated web store data into Intuits Quickbook to improve overall operation efficiency · Coordinated with magazines, auto-show hosts and various Internet discussion forums in the effort. Edo Performance site traffic experienced significant increase within a month period, up to three fold. · Increase sales revenue from an average of $10,000 to $110,000 in a period of 5 months. · Dramatically increased international sales from $4,000 to $10,000 in monthly average sales. Show less
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The Johns Hopkins University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Assistant
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Jun 2003 - Jun 2004
S.A. Responsible for continued development of custom scientific analytic software for research of hip pressure during gait movement. · Design and implemented a 3D stress-analysis software in C under IRIX OS, on a SGI workstation.
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Education
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The Johns Hopkins University
BS, Computer Science