KahWee Teng’s Résumé

Introduction

Hello! I love bumping around museums. When I’m not doing that, I’m developing complex user interfaces. I lean heavily towards frontend development. My work involves communicating with designers and backend developers to come up with high performance and consistent UI/UX solutions to provide our customers with the best advertising analytics platform. The tools I use include Backbone.js, LESS.js and more.

Personal data

Name: Teng Kah Wee
Nationality: Singaporean
Race: Chinese

Experience

UI Developer (Tremor Video)

  • Implemented complex user interfaces for ad trafficking and analytics platform.
  • Utilized JavaScript (Backbone.js, jQuery, jQuery UI), CSS and HTML.
  • Delved into latest frontend development methodologies to achieve higher work velocity.

Partner (gladlyCode LLP)

August 2009 – Present (3 years 8 months)

  • Designed the UI for an SMS-to-Twitter system, gladlyCast, which is featured on TODAY newspaper.
  • Automated all common server tasks to reduce time required for recovery through CakePHP.
  • Integrate server monitoring through Monit in Rackspace Cloud.
  • Connected the application to Twitter API and maintained it through Twitter API changes.
  • Developed the business further till the application processed up to 12,000 incoming SMS/day.

Senior Software Engineer (Shanda Games)

  • Automated deployment and refactor systems to handle faster website turnovers.
  • Installed and managed Git repositories to handle versioning.
  • Implemented frontend Single-sign on (SSO) components using PHP.
  • Extracted global navigational bar and improved performance by running it on Node.js.
  • Customized and optimized Invision Powered Board to handle our strong gamer community.
  • Migrated previous forum’s data to new forum using MySQL and Ruby scripts.
  • Worked in Cherry Credits, a subsidiary of Shanda Games.

Deputy Chief Judge (WorldSkills Singapore)

February 2012 – July 2012 (6 months)

  • Oversaw the test paper setting process.
  • Worked with academic institutions to understand the tools students were taught.
  • Decided with the local team to send a Singapore representative for Web Design category.

Web Architect (ONG&ONG PTE LTD)

October 2010 – December 2011 (1 year 3 months)

  • Lead a team to create and maintain intranet application, including a HRMS.
  • Migrated data from FileMaker to MySQL using Python and Apple Automator.
  • Implemented complex access control list over PHP Yii Framework.
  • Develop solely a custom CMS in Ruby on Rails, leveraging on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  • Automated deployment to AWS using Capistrano.
  • Set up and maintained server instance in AWS.

Education

  • BSc in Computing and Information Systems (Honours)
    — from Goldsmiths, University of London
  • Diploma in Biotechnology
    — from Singapore Polytechnic

Skills

  • LAMP (Linux, Apaache, MySQL, PHP)
  • JavaScript (jQuery, Backbone.js, Google Maps, Node.js)
  • nginx

Certification

  • Zend Certified Engineer for PHP 5
  • Sun Certified Specialist for NetBeans IDE

You can request my full CV by contacting me.