Fly My Cloud Limited

Consultant

October 2015 – Present

London, UK

I have been working as a consultant at Fly My Cloud Limited since 2015, developing and deploying cloud-based solutions which are tailored to my clients’ requirements. I have worked with clients in a variety of sectors including retail, legal and financial services. My clients range from start-ups to established enterprises. Some of the projects I have developed include:

• Middleware that facilitates the auto-scaling  of cloud infrastructure;
• Custom social media platforms;
• E-commerce platforms; and
• Tools for cloud migration and monitoring.

University of Surrey

Teaching Assistant

2010-2014 (in addition to my PhD studies)

Surrey, UK

I worked as a teaching assistant and lab demonstrator for various undergraduate and post graduate programmes in computer science. I have taught Object-oriented Software Engineering, Computer Networking, Web Publishing, Mobile Computing, Computer Networking, Collective Intelligence and Software Engineering Principles.

• PHP : Laravel, Symphony, CakePHP and Codeigniter.
• Java: Java desktop and web development.
• Databases : MySQL, Oracle, Mongodb, Redis and Sqlite.
• Testing : Junit, PHPunit, Phpspec, Behat and Selenium.
• Mobile platforms : Android and iOS app development.
• Cloud Platforms : Google Cloud, Amazon AWS and Openshift.
• Javascript : Vue.js, Angular and jQuery.
• Automation : Ansible,Jenkins, Bash scripts (e.g. automated rsync back-ups and cron-job based alert mechanisms).
• Server Operating Systems : Linux (CentOS, Fedora and Ubuntu), and Windows Server 2012 r2.
• Servers : Apache, Nginx, IIS and Node.js.
• Other tools : Composer, NPM , Git, Bower, Gulp, Docker, PGP and Postfix.
• APIs : Google Cloud, AWS, Facebook, Stripe, PayPal, Mailchimp and Braintree.

• Modular Shopping Platform (that can be extended using custom plugins and themes): Built on top of Laravel -> Website, Source

• Desktop Blog Editor: Built using Java -> Website, Source

University of Surrey

PhD in Computing

2010 – 2015

Surrey, UK

Research Areas: Mathematical modelling, Simulations, Evolutionary Algorithms and Game Theory

University of Surrey

MSc in Internet Computing

2009 – 2010

Surrey, UK

Modules: Networking, Computer Security, Cloud Computing, Ethical Hacking, Collective Intelligence and Enterprise System Development.

• MSc in Internet Computing: Graduated first in the class
• PHD in Computing: Fully funded PhD studentship

• Web Security: Experience in penetration tests and implementing SSLs.
• Networking: Experience in auto-scaling, CDNs, load balancing, sharding data.
• Marketing technology products:
  • Using automated twitter posts the number of followers of Fly My Cloud was increased to 8000.
  • Developed an algorithm for posting across multiple platforms simultaneously. Advantages include: interesting stories are automatically posted, content is automatically translated into Mandarin before posting to Weibo.
  • Experience in ad management and data analysis.
  • Experience using marketing tools such as Tweetdeck and Hootsuite.
• Other tools: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects.
• Blogging: I have written for newspapers and magazines. This includes:
  • Opensource for You (The most popular open source magazine in Asia): Column on Shell programming and Linux Architecture (link).
  • The Guardian: Article about MOOCs and how they can be used to improve access to further education (link).

I volunteer for: The Free Software Foundation and Wikipedia.