Edmond Yau
Principal Architect - Data Solutions at Kerv Digital- Claim this Profile
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Cantonese Limited working proficiency
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Mandarin Limited working proficiency
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Lex Guest
During my time working with Ed at Prodo, I found him to be a passionate, highly-driven development team leader who exuded bravery in his approach; the way things are did not prevent him driving forward with what he believed the way should be. His vision extended far beyond the scope of established practices and he sought better, faster, more agile solutions to a spectrum of challenges any agency faces. I found Ed's enthusiasm to be infectious and we often traded ideas back and forth during evenings and weekends. He consistently brought fresh ideas to the table that His pioneering work with chatbots was a masterclass in innovation and his ability to eloquently answer questions on his creation gave everyone a chance to share in the knowledge Ed accrued along the way. It's been a pleasure to work with Ed; his character and abilities make him a true asset, and his relentless pursuit of "better" make him head and shoulders above his contemporaries.
Denver Burke
Ed’s technical knowledge and passion are qualities which immediately standout. He dedicates time too fully understand the intricacies of a brand by creating thorough specifications, which are aligned to what the customer requires from both a commercial & technical perspective. But for me, what is equally, if not more impressive, is his ability to prepare his team for long term success. To reinforce this and display his leadership qualities, I recall times when he spoke at universities to provide students with an opportunity to develop their talents, enabling Prodo to extend their employment attractiveness. Other times, he would ensure his team are involved in discussing new products and team processes. This diplomatic approach, combined with his incredible work ethic, technical skills and vision make him a highly valued employee and friend.
Lex Guest
During my time working with Ed at Prodo, I found him to be a passionate, highly-driven development team leader who exuded bravery in his approach; the way things are did not prevent him driving forward with what he believed the way should be. His vision extended far beyond the scope of established practices and he sought better, faster, more agile solutions to a spectrum of challenges any agency faces. I found Ed's enthusiasm to be infectious and we often traded ideas back and forth during evenings and weekends. He consistently brought fresh ideas to the table that His pioneering work with chatbots was a masterclass in innovation and his ability to eloquently answer questions on his creation gave everyone a chance to share in the knowledge Ed accrued along the way. It's been a pleasure to work with Ed; his character and abilities make him a true asset, and his relentless pursuit of "better" make him head and shoulders above his contemporaries.
Denver Burke
Ed’s technical knowledge and passion are qualities which immediately standout. He dedicates time too fully understand the intricacies of a brand by creating thorough specifications, which are aligned to what the customer requires from both a commercial & technical perspective. But for me, what is equally, if not more impressive, is his ability to prepare his team for long term success. To reinforce this and display his leadership qualities, I recall times when he spoke at universities to provide students with an opportunity to develop their talents, enabling Prodo to extend their employment attractiveness. Other times, he would ensure his team are involved in discussing new products and team processes. This diplomatic approach, combined with his incredible work ethic, technical skills and vision make him a highly valued employee and friend.
Lex Guest
During my time working with Ed at Prodo, I found him to be a passionate, highly-driven development team leader who exuded bravery in his approach; the way things are did not prevent him driving forward with what he believed the way should be. His vision extended far beyond the scope of established practices and he sought better, faster, more agile solutions to a spectrum of challenges any agency faces. I found Ed's enthusiasm to be infectious and we often traded ideas back and forth during evenings and weekends. He consistently brought fresh ideas to the table that His pioneering work with chatbots was a masterclass in innovation and his ability to eloquently answer questions on his creation gave everyone a chance to share in the knowledge Ed accrued along the way. It's been a pleasure to work with Ed; his character and abilities make him a true asset, and his relentless pursuit of "better" make him head and shoulders above his contemporaries.
Denver Burke
Ed’s technical knowledge and passion are qualities which immediately standout. He dedicates time too fully understand the intricacies of a brand by creating thorough specifications, which are aligned to what the customer requires from both a commercial & technical perspective. But for me, what is equally, if not more impressive, is his ability to prepare his team for long term success. To reinforce this and display his leadership qualities, I recall times when he spoke at universities to provide students with an opportunity to develop their talents, enabling Prodo to extend their employment attractiveness. Other times, he would ensure his team are involved in discussing new products and team processes. This diplomatic approach, combined with his incredible work ethic, technical skills and vision make him a highly valued employee and friend.
Lex Guest
During my time working with Ed at Prodo, I found him to be a passionate, highly-driven development team leader who exuded bravery in his approach; the way things are did not prevent him driving forward with what he believed the way should be. His vision extended far beyond the scope of established practices and he sought better, faster, more agile solutions to a spectrum of challenges any agency faces. I found Ed's enthusiasm to be infectious and we often traded ideas back and forth during evenings and weekends. He consistently brought fresh ideas to the table that His pioneering work with chatbots was a masterclass in innovation and his ability to eloquently answer questions on his creation gave everyone a chance to share in the knowledge Ed accrued along the way. It's been a pleasure to work with Ed; his character and abilities make him a true asset, and his relentless pursuit of "better" make him head and shoulders above his contemporaries.
Denver Burke
Ed’s technical knowledge and passion are qualities which immediately standout. He dedicates time too fully understand the intricacies of a brand by creating thorough specifications, which are aligned to what the customer requires from both a commercial & technical perspective. But for me, what is equally, if not more impressive, is his ability to prepare his team for long term success. To reinforce this and display his leadership qualities, I recall times when he spoke at universities to provide students with an opportunity to develop their talents, enabling Prodo to extend their employment attractiveness. Other times, he would ensure his team are involved in discussing new products and team processes. This diplomatic approach, combined with his incredible work ethic, technical skills and vision make him a highly valued employee and friend.
Credentials
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Microsoft Enterprise Data Analyst (DP500)
MicrosoftDec, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ303, AZ304)
MicrosoftAug, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-100)
MicrosoftAug, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer (DP200, DP201)
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Growth-Driven Design Certification
HubSpotOct, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
Blasting Off With Bootstrap
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Shaping up with Angular.js
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Staying Sharp With AngularJS
Code School
Experience
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Kerv Digital
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United Kingdom
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Information Technology & Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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Principal Architect - Data Solutions
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Mar 2022 - Present
Delighting Customers by allowing them to leverage their data assets for accelerated Digital Transformation with Azure's no code/low code Intelligent Data Platform.Scaling the Data Practise by improving commercialisation of services and products for Data Engineering, Data Science and Solutions; creating accelerators; leading presales and overseeing delivery for these propositions on key accounts as we level-up to the next phase of growth. Technical specialism on Azure Modern Data Platform stack (Synapse, Databricks, Dataverse, Azure SQL and surrounding technologies), Driving strong team culture with OKRs and team charters. Show less
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Solution Architect - Data & Predictive Science Team Lead
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Mar 2019 - Mar 2022
Established data and AI practise: internal tribe with focus on data analysis, data architecture and data platforms predominately on Azure Cloud: Azure Synapse, PowerBI, Databricks, Azure SQL, CosmoDB, Azure Data Factory.
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Solution Architect
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Aug 2017 - Mar 2019
Cloudthing are a Fast Track Top 100 software consultancy. A MS Gold Partner with specialisms in Devops, Business Apps, Data Analysis, Data Platforms. Solution Architect with specialism in modernizing apps onto Azure PaaS, Devops, Data Platforms & Cognitive Services. Working across clients in Edutech, Non Profit, SupplyChain, Manufacturing.
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seed-uk.org
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London, England, United Kingdom
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Chief Architect (probono)
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Sep 2020 - Present
Mentoring students in their use of cloud for building distributed mobile applications. Cloud & Software Architecture Technical Authority within Leadership team. Mentoring students in their use of cloud for building distributed mobile applications. Cloud & Software Architecture Technical Authority within Leadership team.
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Prodo
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United Kingdom
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of Development
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May 2016 - Aug 2017
Principle Solutions Architecture on Key Account projects: those with complex technical requirements & high-traffic. Working on initiatives to position Prodo as a thought leader in User Engagement with Personalisation technologies, PWAs & Chatbots. Rebuild team cohesiveness, efficiency & effectiveness using lean / agile best practise. Improving Engineering aspects of team through tooling (BambooCI, Jira, Bitbucket) and education about coding to SOLID principles. Principle Solutions Architecture on Key Account projects: those with complex technical requirements & high-traffic. Working on initiatives to position Prodo as a thought leader in User Engagement with Personalisation technologies, PWAs & Chatbots. Rebuild team cohesiveness, efficiency & effectiveness using lean / agile best practise. Improving Engineering aspects of team through tooling (BambooCI, Jira, Bitbucket) and education about coding to SOLID principles.
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SMART FLEET SOLUTIONS LIMITED
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Chester
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Software Development Manager
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Apr 2013 - May 2016
Following a restructure of Group IT, I was asked to lead the fast-growing development team in a business that where headcount grew more than 300% over 3 years. Building a highly effective team with a SCRUM & lean Kanban process, more agile development practises such as pair programming, code reviews, use of devops & microservices to deliver projects in the most time-efficient and cost effective manner. I plan the application roadmap & technology strategy & have operational responsibility for service availability & virtualized infrastructure in Rackspace. Currently leading a re-architecture of systems to improve scaleability & resilience. Client-facing: working with BAs to specify a technical solution, and also at release demos. Working with 3rd party PMs and Devs on integration. Products: Responsive design web-based eCommerce platform & multi-tenanted client-facing LOB portals with ERP backend. Tablet-based Vehicle Inspection platform. 3rd-party EDI integrations. Technology stack: Android, AngularJS, Ninject, RavenDB, ASP.NET 4, SQL Server, Dynamics NAV, VMware Show less
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GM Used Vehicle Sales
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Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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R&D Project Manager / Solutions Architect
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Apr 2011 - Apr 2013
Joining as employee no. 5 in a new business venture from Greenhous Group prior to official unveiling as SmartFleetSolutions. Project management, and architecture-redesign on software systems used for NetworkQ contract into multi-tenant ready SAAS products. Products: web-based eauction/sales ecommerce platform, client LOB portal, business process workflows, ERP integrations and integration into GM websphere platform. Project management, re-architecture, migration of on-premise IIS/SQL Servers to Rackspace dedicated cloud for performance. Supplier selection of cloud partners. Technology stack .NET: ASP.NET, WCF, Silverlight, NHibernate, SQL Server, Dynamics NAV, Rackspace dedicated cloud. Client-facing with demos to senior management and directors to existing & prospective clients. Show less
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Vision Support Trading Ltd
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Printing Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Development Manager / Solutions Architect
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Aug 2003 - Mar 2011
Lead technology strategy & delivery of highly-disruptive technology into a new industry to create a market-leading business. Project management, architecture and development lead on high-performance multithreaded Java EJB system, XSLT data transformation engine, .NET desktop clients with SQL Server MIS backend, ABBYY OCR engine document capture. 3rd-party EDI integrations. Refined these systems into a multi-tenanted suite of products that could be configured for the 26 individual clients of the business . Due to the heavily-regulated nature of client businesses such as MBNA, M&SMoney, RBSG, Santandar, Npower and Homeserve, system was built to be compliant with ISO9001, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS. Having joined as KTP Associate, went on to become the Software Development Manager, leading a team of 3 other developers. Introduced a Java/XML-based automated production system for contracts that were able to send their work in electronic data form, and a SQL/Access MIS. These helped the profitability of the company to record levels in two successive years by allowing lower prices and gain new contracts whilst still maintaining broadly the same headcount. My work on the KTP was awarded the accolade of “best KTP” partnership in 2007 (*1)(*2), beating the 1047 other projects nationwide which ran that year. This was an indication of the industry-leading impact of my work. In 2007, I project-managed the largest IT project in the history of the company, a project to integrate scanning technologies for feeding the paper-based contracts through the automated production system. The final piece of the jigsaw was a .NET and Web Services based workflow system that brings benefits such as process-standardisation (for ISO9001), performance-monitoring, file-management, and reduced administration to the business. Show less
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Software Development Consultant
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Nov 2010 - 2010
Development of replacement CRM and Billing system. Carried out analysis of business needs to create database structures and GUI designs. Development of replacement CRM and Billing system. Carried out analysis of business needs to create database structures and GUI designs.
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STEP Student
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Jul 2003 - Sep 2003
Brought in to rescue their membership database, a legacy Foxpro system. Analysed use cases, held workshops. Came up with a design to make it work more efficiently, easier to use and easier to maintain. Learning how to communicate with 'non-technical' users was a valuable experience at an early stage of my career. It was estimated that the result was a time saving of 15-25% for user's day-to-day workload. - Primarily used Access Brought in to rescue their membership database, a legacy Foxpro system. Analysed use cases, held workshops. Came up with a design to make it work more efficiently, easier to use and easier to maintain. Learning how to communicate with 'non-technical' users was a valuable experience at an early stage of my career. It was estimated that the result was a time saving of 15-25% for user's day-to-day workload. - Primarily used Access
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Lehman Brothers
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Capital Markets
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700 & Above Employee
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Student Internship
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Jul 2002 - Oct 2002
Working as a member of the IT development team, in Fixed Income Derivatives I implemented two Java Servlets improving the support of the overnight trades processing. Important operational project. - Primarily used Java and HTML Working as a member of the IT development team, in Fixed Income Derivatives I implemented two Java Servlets improving the support of the overnight trades processing. Important operational project. - Primarily used Java and HTML
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Education
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University of York
1st, Computer Systems & Software Engineering