William Leong

CTO & Partner at People Capital
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(386) 825-5501
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Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Languages
  • Spanish Limited working proficiency
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency

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Experience

    • United States
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • CTO & Partner
      • Aug 2023 - Present

      Providing a better technical recruiting experience for startups with engineers sourcing, interviewing and hiring engineers as a service. We also build internal tools and automations with AI to optimize sourcing and filtering candidate leads. Providing a better technical recruiting experience for startups with engineers sourcing, interviewing and hiring engineers as a service. We also build internal tools and automations with AI to optimize sourcing and filtering candidate leads.

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Fullstack Software Engineer & Architect
      • Mar 2022 - Present

      • Contributed to frontend development of DSCVR decentralized social network project (VueJS) while in grant phase (before capital raise). • Designed and Developed the DSCVR Discord Bot utilizing Typescript, NestJS and IC Candid/Identity libraries that enables a DSCVR portal to link nft gated roles to a discord server. • Re-designed and re-implemented IC NFT syning & gating service (NestJS, IC Candid/Identity, Typescript) that allow DSCVR portals to gate roles based on IC NFT ownership and verify owned IC NFT pfps. • Improved Frontend Staging CI/CD workflow Show less

    • United States
    • Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Lead Software Engineer
      • Sep 2020 - Present

      Have had the roles of a product manager, data scientist, and 0 to 1 full-stack engineer over various startup and internal projects. Have had the roles of a product manager, data scientist, and 0 to 1 full-stack engineer over various startup and internal projects.

    • Music Producer & Writer & Consulatant
      • Mar 2015 - Present

      Produced & Written for • KEY of ShinEE • Epik High • Jharrel Jerome • Emotional Oranges • iamnotshane • KWAYE • Gallant • Zee Avi Label Releases • SM • SONY (RCA) • Warner Brothers Records • Mind of A Genius Records • Island Records / Avant Garden Records (Universal Music Group) Produced & Written for • KEY of ShinEE • Epik High • Jharrel Jerome • Emotional Oranges • iamnotshane • KWAYE • Gallant • Zee Avi Label Releases • SM • SONY (RCA) • Warner Brothers Records • Mind of A Genius Records • Island Records / Avant Garden Records (Universal Music Group)

    • United States
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Lead Software Engineer
      • Sep 2021 - Nov 2021

      • Contributed to building engineering team from 1 to 7+ members • Co-architected and implemented chat system utilizing elixir phoenix's channels • Worked closely with product and design team members to translate requirements into user stories and software architecture. • Published custom elixir hex library fork `web3x` library with implementation of server-side "signin with metamask". • Set up devops flow on render.com • Contributed to building engineering team from 1 to 7+ members • Co-architected and implemented chat system utilizing elixir phoenix's channels • Worked closely with product and design team members to translate requirements into user stories and software architecture. • Published custom elixir hex library fork `web3x` library with implementation of server-side "signin with metamask". • Set up devops flow on render.com

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • CTO
      • May 2018 - Nov 2020

      We are a collective of entrepreneurs and technologists with experience building software-based platforms for Fortune 100 Companies and Venture Backed Startups across Media, Finance, Healthcare, Supply Chain, and Consumer Product industries. We are a collective of entrepreneurs and technologists with experience building software-based platforms for Fortune 100 Companies and Venture Backed Startups across Media, Finance, Healthcare, Supply Chain, and Consumer Product industries.

    • United States
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • Co-Founder
      • May 2020 - Sep 2020

      Designed & built an easy Instagram / Facebook AR filter website template builder that grew to 25k+ registered users. 30k+ custom filters were created using our website. Received millions of uses across all filters built with our tool. We also took on a few custom AR filter projects. EffectsMaker is now shut down. Designed & built an easy Instagram / Facebook AR filter website template builder that grew to 25k+ registered users. 30k+ custom filters were created using our website. Received millions of uses across all filters built with our tool. We also took on a few custom AR filter projects. EffectsMaker is now shut down.

    • Software Development
    • Senior Software Architect
      • Jan 2020 - Jun 2020

      c0ntact Systems helps game developers and esports teams make more money and grow their audience through in-game items. We successfully launched a platform for the sale, management and tracking of skins, gear pieces, consumables and utility items. We established relationships with +50 leading game developers and drove adoption across many thousands of users. • Coached and mentored backend & frontend devs • Contributed to the consumer and business facing analytics portal written in both Vue.js and React.js • Architected and implemented Golang GraphQL API to manage assets & game integration • Designed and Implemented struct-based DI pattern for goland backend • Designed and Implemented GraphQL Dataloader & caching optimization for golang backend • Designed and implemented Multi-level permissions and Oauth service Show less

  • 55 Foundry
    • Manhattan Beach, CA
    • Engineering
      • Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

      (Now known as NAX Group) helps industry-leading organizations unlock liquidity from their assets by combining our software and method to identify, build, launch and scale new asset-backed products, ventures and securities. From engineering new financial instruments to designing new corporate ventures, we are privileged to work with some of the most important institutions globally. Nax Group operates from our headquarters in Manhattan Beach, CA for North America and Paris, France for Europe, with further locations in Palo Alto, New York, London, and Frankfurt. In 2021, we are expanding to Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney - and we want the best and brightest from around the globe to join us. Show less

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Lead Software Engineer
      • Dec 2017 - May 2018

      • (De Beers | Tracr ) Led the application team for a commercial supply-chain evm blockchain platform. Addressed data privacy with asymmetric and symmetric encryption techniques. Built the core bridge apis with Django/Flask and the UI in VueJS.• (State Street | Pharos / VerusSM) Co-led the data science team for a successful machine learning project in the financial sector. Utilized pandas, apache spark, databricks, gensim, python, and python flask to deliver an intelligent online learning risk platform driven by financial news. Show less

    • Senior Software Engineer
      • Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

      BCG Digital Ventures is a corporate investment and incubation firm. We are dedicated to inventing, building, investing in and launching category-changing businesses at start-up speed for the world’s most influential companies, ensuring they are fit for the future. We share risk and invest alongside our corporate and start-up partners via a range of collaborative options. Founded in 2014, we have major innovation centers in Manhattan Beach, Berlin, London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Sydney, as well as a host of labs across the globe. Our centers and labs are home to a diverse range of entrepreneurs, investors, technologists, strategic thinkers, designers and engineers, who are building businesses, creating and expanding markets and developing new technologies that benefit millions of lives. For further information, please visitwww.bcgdv.com Show less

    • Software Development
    • VP of Engineering
      • Nov 2014 - Dec 2015

      Selecting technologies for projects, ideating products, managing developers, front-end web development (angular.js, ember.js, meteor.js), mobile development (swift, cordova/phonegap), back-end development and api design (node.js, sails.js, meteor.js). Selecting technologies for projects, ideating products, managing developers, front-end web development (angular.js, ember.js, meteor.js), mobile development (swift, cordova/phonegap), back-end development and api design (node.js, sails.js, meteor.js).

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • Director of Product
      • May 2014 - Dec 2015

      Software Development, Product Management, UI Design, Quality Assurance, Graphic Design. Here at Kageh, we stop enable images, video and audio. Our MVP android/iOS app consists of a single column feed of high quality, influencer curated content with the clothing and products/accessories mapped to individual views with shop-able links. We work alongside fashion influencers such as Chriselle Lim and Jeannie Lee. Kageh also has a FATE LAB initiative which is a tech incubator for strategic consulting/JV's in the fields of fashion, art Technology and Entertainment. Show less

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Engineering Intern (Firmware/Software)
      • May 2012 - Aug 2013

      Firmware and Software QA, testing, and debugging, implementing new features, fixing bugs for N400 and N500 thin client devices. Utilized C, C++, Linux shell scripts, python, and QT framework as well as HTML and JS for front end fixes and implementation. Firmware and Software QA, testing, and debugging, implementing new features, fixing bugs for N400 and N500 thin client devices. Utilized C, C++, Linux shell scripts, python, and QT framework as well as HTML and JS for front end fixes and implementation.

    • Music Producer and Recording/Mixing/Mastering Engineer
      • Nov 2010 - Dec 2010

      Recorded, co-wrote, produced, mixed, and mastered "Shooting for you" with singer Bonnie Brooksbank for Sony/USC F3 camera commercial. Recorded, co-wrote, produced, mixed, and mastered "Shooting for you" with singer Bonnie Brooksbank for Sony/USC F3 camera commercial.

Education

  • University of Southern California
    BS Electrical Engineering, Digital Signal Processing
    2010 - 2014
  • Bellarmine College Preparatory
    2006 - 2010

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