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resume.json

{
  "meta": {
    "theme": "elegant"
  },
  "basics": {
    "profiles": [
        {
            "url": "https://github.com/hyleung",
            "username": "hyleung",
            "network": "GitHub"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://twitter.com/hyleung",
            "username": "hyleung",
            "network": "Twitter"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/hyleung/",
            "username": "hyleung",
            "network": "LinkedIn"
        }
    ],
    "image": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4cdbbd7940afcdf979a50b2950423e38",
    "summary": "I'm a (mostly) back-end developer, with experience solving a wide range of problems. More recently, a large part of my day-to-day job is providing mentoring and technical leadership as well as working with Product Managers and Designers to deliver on roadmap priorities. \n\nI'm happiest when I'm working on a team with a strong culture of team ownership, who understand that we succeed and fail *as a team*.",
    "location": {
        "region": "British Columbia",
        "countryCode": "CA",
        "city": "Vancouver"
    },
    "email": "hy.leung@gmail.com",
    "label": "Backend developer",
    "name": "Ho Yan Leung"
    },
    "skills": [
        {
            "keywords": [
              "Lambda",
              "Postgres",
              "MySQL",
              "DynamoDB",
              "Kinesis",
              "SQS",
              "SNS",
              "Typescript",
              "Clojure",
              "Java",
              "API design",
              "library design"
            ],
            "level": "Proficient",
            "name": "Backend development"
        },
        {
          "keywords": [
            "AWS",
            "CloudFormation",
            "CDK",
            "EC2",
            "ECS",
            "RDS",
            "Docker",
            "Jenkins",
            "CI/CD"
          ],
          "level": "Proficient",
          "name": "DevOps"
        }
    ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Information Technology Institute",
      "studyType": "Diploma",
      "area": "Information technology",
      "startDate": "2000",
      "endDate": "2001"
    },
    {
      "endDate": "1999",
      "startDate": "1995",
      "studyType": "Master of Engineering",
      "area": "Aeronautical engineering",
      "institution": "Bristol University"
    }
  ],
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Article",
      "url": "https://www.article.com",
      "position": "Senior software engineer (platform)",
      "startDate": "2022-03",
      "summary": "Engineer on Article's platform team, responsible for defining and supporting the 'paved road' as well as providing guidance and assistance to product-facing teams.",
      "highlights": [
        "Worked with teams to improve their infrastructure-as-code practices (migrations and standardization)",
        "Developed CDK libraries (supporting Java, Typescript, and Javascript) codifying best practices and standard Article infrastructure patterns (project on hold)",
        "Lead engineering-wide initiative to improve visibility and accountability for AWS costs, with the goal of reducing overall costs by 20%."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Uplight",
      "url": "https://uplight.com/",
      "position": "Senior platform engineer",
      "startDate": "2021-10",
      "endDate" : "2021-12",
      "summary": "Engineer on team responsible for the data ingestion capabilities of Uplight's platform",
      "highlights": [
        "Implemented end-to-end automated tests for the data ingestion pipeline"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Unbounce",
      "url" : "https://unbounce.com/",
      "position": "Senior software developer",
      "startDate": "2018-04",
      "endDate": "2021-08",
      "summary": "Technical lead on a team of eight, responsible for guiding the development and maintenance of various systems (both greenfield and brownfield) at Unbounce",
      "highlights": [
        "Lead a multi-year initiative to retire Unbounce's legacy data ingestion pipelines (EC2/Java/SQS/RDS)",
        "Helped design and develop Unbounce's new data pipeline (Lambda/Typescript/Kinesis/DynamoDB/RDS)",
        "Helped bring Unbounce's first ML-driven feature (Smart Traffic) to Production",
        "Responsible for team technical road maps and technical strategy",
        "Responsible for mentoring and developing team members",
        "Incident response, facilitating post-incident reviews"
      ]
    },

    {
      "name": "Unbounce",
      "url" : "https://unbounce.com/",
      "position": "Software developer",
      "startDate": "2017-01",
      "endDate": "2018-04",
      "summary": "Individual contributor on a team responsible for Lead ingestion, third party integrations, and APIs",
      "highlights": [
        "Worked on a range of technologies, including AWS (EC2, Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, etc.), Clojure, NodeJS (Typescript), Java (for legacy services)",
        "Worked on initiative to migrate Lead-related systems to Europe for GDPR"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "CA Technologies (Broadcom)",
      "position": "Software engineer",
      "startDate": "2017-06",
      "endDate": "2017-12",
      "summary": "Contract-to-hire position, working on CA's API Management product",
      "highlights": [
        "Part of a team tasked with developing API standards for development teams",
        "Worked on one of the (many) teams focused on re-platforming of CA's APIM soluton to Kubernetes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Elastic Path Software",
      "url": "https://www.elasticpath.com/",
      "position": "Software engineer",
      "startDate": "2014-12",
      "endDate": "2017-06",
      "summary": "Worked on Elastic Path's hypermedia API engine (Cortex - https://documentation.elasticpath.com/commerce/docs/cortex/)",
      "highlights": [
        "Design and implementation of REST (hypermedia APIs), as well as SDKs for extending Cortex",
        "Technologies include: Java, OSGI"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Eventbase",
      "position": "Android developer",
      "startDate": "2014-06",
      "endDate": "2014-12",
      "summary": "Development on Eventbase's mobile application for Android"
    },
    {
      "name": "ForeSee Results",
      "url" : "https://www.foresee.com/",
      "position": "Software engineer",
      "startDate": "2010-12",
      "endDate": "2014-12",
      "summary": "Part of a small team focused on developing new capabilities for ForeSee's customers (primarily for mobile)",
      "highlights": [
        "Worked on bringing ForeSee's SessionReplay capability to Android devices",
        "R&D on location-based survey capabilities (project was eventually scrapped)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Vision Critical (Alida)",
      "position": "Software engineer",
      "startDate": "2010-03",
      "endDate": "2010-12",
      "summary": "Worked on two of the feature teams for Vision Critical's web survey platform",
      "highlights": [
        "Technolgies include: C#, WCF, Silverlight(!), ASP.Net"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Burntsand",
      "position": "Software developer (contract)",
      "startDate": "2009-09",
      "endDate": "2010-03",
      "summary": "Contract role, working on SiteCore CMS"
    },
    {
      "name": "Habanero Consulting Group",
      "position": "Software developer (contract)",
      "startDate": "2009-08",
      "endDate": "2009-10",
      "summary": "Contract role, working on SharePoint"
    },
    {
      "name": "Habanero Consulting group",
      "position": "Technical specialist",
      "startDate": "2005-03",
      "endDate": "2009-05",
      "summary": "Analysis, design, and implementation of custom solutions based on a number of different platforms in the Microsoft stack"
    },
    {
      "name": "Accenture Business Services for Utilities",
      "position": "Software developer",
      "startDate": "2001-03",
      "endDate": "2005-03",
      "summary": "Design and implementation of custom line-of-business applications for an electric utility"
    }
  ],
  "interests": [
    {
      "name" : "When things go wrong...",
      "keywords" : ["post-incident analysis",  "accidents & other catastrophes"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Reading",
      "keywords" : ["science fiction", "fantasy", "people & processes"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Coffee",
      "keywords" : ["pour-over", "light and bright"]
    }
  ]
}