My career journey

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This is an exciting move, I have always wanted to make a move geographically and challenge myself to new culture and ideas. I worked as a web consultant and throughout this experience I have been challenged extensively and through it all, I have grown to learn and deepened my understanding.

• Worked with NextJS framework and developed an internal dashboard
• Managed and published an internal component library leveraging on Github packages as the registry
• Leveraged on playwright testing to perform visual regression
• Created Taskfiles an alternative to Makefiles to perform command invocations
• Maintained documentation using Docusaurus for our internal component libraries
• Built an experimental desktop widget written in Rust and Tauri as the framework
• Experimented with pub/sub using Azure Event Hub and Server Sent Events as a notification service

For this career jump I decided to strengthen my knowledge in frontend and react. Whilst my previous experience was broad, I wanted to have a strong web development pillar and deepen my knowledge

• Worked with monolithic micro-frontend structure
• Used Material UI for internal operation portal
• Worked on building the flow for Know Your Customer (KYC) for wallet. Collaborated with Matchmove which uses Onfido identity management
• Explored Playwright testing an alternative to Cypress E2E testing suite

This is my second job and I took the opportunity to challenge myself to work as a Fullstack Engineer

• Responsible in migrating existing front end code base written in Angular to React
• Integrated Rest APIs using React-query libraries which managed states and side-effects elegantly
• Worked on micro services using NestJS Framework, written using Typescript. Built new features as part of Setel's loyalty offerings
• Introduced lighthouse assertions on CI/CD
• Handled database entries, queries and schema using MongoDB
• Monitored, remediate complications with Kubernetes clusters
• Produced reports using Holistics BI Platform
• Supervised interns as part of ongoing internship program (Software stream)
• Debugged and identified complications with micro services through AWS Cloudwatch, Kubectl and K9s
• Wrote batch scripts to handle migration of 14 million users to Unified Loyalty Platform (ULP)
• Support operation teams remediate issues / bugs, lead the team and became key point of contact between feature team and operations

I am forever grateful to my mentor and colleagues for introducing web development to me throughout my time here

• Joined as part of a graduate training program, rotating with various teams within technology department
• Worked with the Project Management Office, managing, chairing and tracked discussions, remediate conflicts and issues and managed project deliveries
• Hardened server security by refreshing outdated antivirus in Linux Red Hat 6 Servers
• Developed bespoke solutions in Salesforce Platform written in Apex, Visualforce and SOQL. Integrated with Google Maps API and Rest APIs.
• Managed the launch of UHD broadcast project, a large scale project which involves multiple parties and countless conflicts. Key project manager of the whole project.
• Permanent placement as a web developer in the software engineering team.
• Worked as a front-end developer for Gempak, built components and integrated Restful APIs
• Involved in the refresh of Awani web portal. Built reusable components and published packages to streamline the web portals in Astro
• Integrated ads offering in web portals written in ReactJS. Used Doubleclick For Publishers (DFP) Ads offering with fallback methods to ensure improved user experience
• Introduced user interface regression as part of CI/CD, safeguarding broken UI from releasing to users