Jamie Wong



github.com/phleet	www.jamie-wong.com	jamie.lf.wong@gmail.com

My name is Jamie Wong and I like to build things. Coding personal projects since the 7th grade has given me a great appreciation for perpetual self-learning through doing. I'm a huge advocate of open source, test driven development (untested code is broken code) and code review (unreviewed code is bad code). I have a fascination with puzzles and problem solving that both led me to success in national and international competition and fostered my passion in programming. When I'm not pushing the latest commits to my projects on github, I can be found answering questions on Stack Overflow, writing up posts for my blog, editing my vim config, or playing badminton.

Work Experience

Frontend Developer at Facebook, September - December 2011

A social network with 500M daily active users

Tools/Frameworks used: node.js, Jasmine, git

Software Developer at Kontagent, January - April 2011

Leading social analytics company tracking 600M+ events from 20M+ daily active users

Led a self-initiated, large scale refactor effort on the entire customer-facing component of the SaaS product with minimal supervision. Identified problem areas, made major architectural changes to existing code, destroyed dead and legacy code, and pushed the improved code to production
Authored baseline company-wide engineering documentation, JavaScript and Python style guides and best practices
Improved python test coverage from 0% to 40% for the large portions of the code base I was responsible for
Developed a tool to dramatically increase support staff efficiency by providing rapid access to the customer's view
Tools/Frameworks used: Django 1.1 and 1.2, jQuery, HTML, CSS, svn

Web Developer at The Working Group, May - August 2010

Ruby on Rails web development shop with a focus on entrepreneurship and agile development practices.

Project lead on Campus Perks' web-based contest system, which received over 500,000 page views. Used by RIM, Microsoft, Loblaws and others to create integrated social media campaigns - see campusperks.ca
Interacted directly with clients, obtaining specification and recommending improvements
Tools/Frameworks used: Rails 2.x and 3.0, jQuery, Prototype, HTML (haml), CSS (sass), git, svn

Camp Instructor at Virtual Ventures Summer Camp, Summers of 2007-2009

Summer camp focussing on developing interest in science and technology

Designed original lesson plans to educate campers aged 10-15 about graphic design, computer science and information security
Taught groups of up to 40 campers about HTML, CSS and webpage creation through SSH and SCP
Created online registration system in php and MySQL serving hundreds of parents
Created AJAX powered camper sign in/out system used by camp instructors throughout summer 2009

Summary of Qualifications

Languages

JavaScript (jQuery, Prototype, Backbone.js): 1 year workplace experience, personal projects
- Learned about this, .prototype and apply making a jQuery plugin for elegant DOM generation
Python (Django): 4 months workplace experience, personal projects, and competition
- Learned to love docstrings, list comprehensions and pylint making a 2v2 Starcraft 2 Tournament Ladder viewer
Coffeescript: Personal projects
- Learned to stop worrying about parens and this making LL1 and SLR1 parsers for propositional logic
Ruby (Ruby on Rails): 4 months workplace experience, personal projects
- Learned to love haml and sass while building a contest platform for Campus Perks
php: Personal projects and competition
- Learned to fear the evil that is $$ making a command line client for navigating UW Course files
C99 and C++: Course work, personal projects, and competitions
- Learned to grok pointers making a graphical animation of Towers of Hanoi
MIPS and Coldfire 68k assembly: Course work
- Learned to appreciate stack frames making a calculator for a 68k Coldfire board.
Experienced with Regular Expressions, MySQL, AJAX, JSON, (semantically correct) HTML, and CSS

Extracurricular

Avid Stack Overflow Contributor

stackoverflow.com (username: Jamie Wong), March 29, 2010 - Present

Predominately answering questions about JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, and php
234 answers (88 accepted) as of Nov. 22, 2011

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) Competitor

University of Waterloo, September 2009 - February 2010

One of nine students selected to represent the University of Waterloo
Worked in a team of three to rapidly develop and implement solutions coded in C++ to problems within five hours
Debugged code and designed test cases on the fly during competition
13th place finish out of 113 teams in East Central North America

Awards

Competition

Facebook Hacker Cup Online Round 2 Qualifier, 2011
Google Code Jam Online Round 2 Qualifier, 2009 and 2010 (username: phleet)
National Bronze Medallist, Canadian Computing Contest, University of Waterloo, February 2009
1st Place in Eastern Ontario, Canadian Computing Contest, University of Waterloo, February 2009
1st Place Team in Eastern Ontario, Educational Computing Organization of Ontario, April 2009

Academic Awards

Faculty of Engineering Upper Year Scholarship, Spring 2011
- Awarded to the student from each class (just over 100 people) with the highest GPA
Term Dean's Honour List, University of Waterloo, Fall 2009 - Spring 2011 (4 terms)
- Awarded to students in excellent academic standing (combination of GPA and percentile rank from the top)
Software Engineering Entrance Scholarship, University of Waterloo, September 2009
- Awarded to students of academic excellence entering the Software Engineering program

Education

Candidate for Bachelor of Software Engineering

Honours Software Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, September 2009 - Present
Major Average: 95%
Relevant Assignments:
- Built a calculator in Coldfire 68k assembly - ECE 222
- Wrote a compiler from a subset of C to MIPS in C++ - CS 241
- Created playable 1 dimensional pong in VHDL - SE 141