This is where I was born and live. It is too small that the name cannot be even put on top of the region (but there are 7,000,000 people living in this tiny space).
When I was about 10, my parents bought a computer. Since then, I was totally addicted to it. I decided to become a programmer when I have grown up. I learned a lot of programming stuff in school but after I started my career, I realised programming itself is not enough. Programming is about communicating with computers, not human. That is why I am learning about user experience recently.
By the way, you can call me Alex.
Business elements online was the first company in which I worked as web programmer. I worked for 3 months in my summer holiday. I helped to create an Invoice System in PHP that was later integrated into the company's ERP system. That was in 2007 when AJAX was gaining popularity. Javascript was thus heavily employed in this system to make the application more like an application.
I worked as part-time in these two companies (RoRCraft & Art Group Limited) when I was in university. I played a little bit Actionscript to build a video player for one of the products in Rorcraft. It was a nice experience that allowed me to try Javascript with types.
I joined a competition organized by IBM with my friends and unexpectedly (OK, I was just trying to be humble) won the champion. We then entered IBM and worked as internship. This was a great opportunity for me to explore how the big company works. A single project can last for more than a year.
Pleiser was a company I cofounded with my friends. We hoped to sustain our business by taking outsourcing projects while sparing some time to develop our own products. It turns out we did not really have that much time to take care of both. We failed and closed the company.
Apptask is a company that specialises in developing enterprise level mobile apps. I am an iOS developer, and a Android developer, and a website developer and sometimes even a designer.
9GAG is a website for showing funny contents. Our mission is very simple, i.e. to make people happy. I was one of the Android guys who was responsible for developing the 9GAG Android app and also several other Android products. Have been learning a lot on Android app design and development :)
As the technical co-founder, I tried not to position myself as a developer. Instead, it took me some time to learn more about design and user experience. I helped design the app Tripalife and the website. However, it did not show a promising traction and we decided to stop the project.
I was also the technical co-founder in this company. The core business of this company is to manage a number of Facebook Pages and helps the clients promote and market their products/business. I helped to build a more automated system for managing the Pages and the websites.
