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Summary

Max is a full-stack software engineer with over 8 years of experience. A passionate builder, he seeks to build innovative products and services to solve hard problems in the world. He is also the founder of Upskillcycle, a mentoring platform for individuals and PWD to journey into tech and assist their career development. Outside of his current work, he is part of the organising team for Junior Developers Singapore (JuniorDev SG) and is the President of the Python User Group Singapore. Max blogs technical content regularly, with 36,000+ followers around the world.

Skills

Tech Community Management

I help to manage and execute programmes for local tech communities namely JuniorDev Singapore, DevSG and Python User Group Singapore (PUGS) with a combined amount of about 10k+ members.

Website Development

Codeigniter, Django, Flask, HTML, JavaScript, CSS 3, CSS Grid, React, Redux, React Native, Angular 6, Styled Components, JWT, RESTful API, GatsbyJS, Netlify, GraphQL, Postman, OpenAPI, Django Channels, Webflow, Tailwind CSS

Programming Languages

Java, Visual Basic, PHP, Python, C, C#, Git, JavaScript (TypeScript, ES6), Kotlin

Mentorship

Proving mentorship & guidance to junior developers and university students entering the startup or tech industry through the Junior Developer Singapore chapter & Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) Alumni mentorship.

Technical Blogging

Creation of newsletters, technical articles, and content planning. he was publishing content in his own blog for developers or startup communities.

Databases

Microsoft SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Google BigTable, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), InfluxDB, Aurora,

Work experience

2019Present

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Codesurance Pte Ltd

Building products & services for Startups and companies, that require technical expertise & knowledge to help grow and scale their company.

20172019

Full Stack Developer

Mircrosec Pte Ltd

MicroSec is building World's first Enterprise-Grade Security Software for IoT and Sensor Network.

  1. Developed the IoT management dashboard to visualise data or manage IoT devices.
  2. Building public, internal & external RESTful APIs for clients, developers or IoT devices.
  3. Front-end & Backend integration of our products or services
  4. Kickstart and build MicroSec's Design System

Education

20212022

Alibaba Cloud - SUSS Entrepreneurship Programme

Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS)

I was able to raise funding from the support through SUSS to secure the Enterprise SG Startup Founder Grant. While participating in their Alibaba Cloud Demo Day as 3rd place in the programme.

20172018

React Nanodegree

Udacity

React is a powerful JavaScript library ideal for building interactive, data-driven user interfaces, and it’s used by some of the most successful brands in the world, including Facebook, Netflix, Airbnb, and more.

20142016

Bachelor of Science, Computing Science

University of Glasgow

Computing Science is the study of information, computation and computational thinking. It is wide-ranging, from programming, programming languages and engineering large software systems, to the design and evaluation of human/computer interfaces, algorithms, computer and network systems, as well as information retrieval and storage systems.

Interest Groups & Non-Profit Organisations

2022Present

President

Python User Group Singapore

To promote Python and spread the knowledge within Singapore through either PyCon or monthly meetups.

20192022

Vice-President

Python User Group Singapore

To promote Python and spread the knowledge within Singapore through either PyCon or monthly meetups.

2018Present

Organizing Community Member

Junior Developer SIngapore

JuniorDev Community is a home for all things JuniorDev, where we will connect you with not only your peers, but also industry experts, experienced developers, we'll have people share their stories, their failures, and there will be plenty of fun times!

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