I have 5+ years of web development experience for a website with 16+ million unique monthly visitors in software development roles in an Agile/SCRUM environment.
I'm currently a software engineer at Dollar Shave Club, a mens lifestyle brand and e-commerce company.
Previously, I've taken up the role as the lead developer at FitCause, a fitness device attribution company. I designed and developed the redesign of the entire web application. I integrated 5 fitness device APIs to our web application.
In addition to software development, I have experience with the following:
- Meteor
- Node.js / Express / Sails.js
- RESTful API
- MongoDB
- Ruby on Rails
- Building MVPs rapidly
- User Interviews/Research to gain customer insights
- Public Speaking/Presentations
- Writing User Stories
- Lean Startup
- Design Thinking
- A/B Testing
- Agile Methodology
- Kanban
- SCRUM
- Angular.js (https://github.com/bennycwong/f1-angular)
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Heroku
- PostgreSQL
Software Engineer @ Ember.JS
Ruby on Rails From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Lead Developer @ I lead design and do fully stack development for FitCause. I work with Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Redis, Rackspace, NodeJS, AWS, Capistrano, Sidekiq.
I am responsible for technological decisions.
- Designed and developed the redesign of the entire web application.
- Integrated 4 fitness device APIs to the web application
- Created an open source ruby gem: an omniauth strategy for Nike+ API
- Designed and build simple RESTful API using node.js/express
- Implemented TDD way of development
- Continual refactoring of existing code
- Migrated production server from Rackspace to AWS EC2
- Background process jobs using Sidekiq
- From February 2014 to October 2014 (9 months) Software Engineer @ Design and develop web applications to make the car buying an enjoyable experience for both consumers and auto dealers.
Design and setup A/B test so that our team could fail fast and learn fast.
Rapidly developed lean MVP(minimum viable products) that reach customers hands as fast as possible in order to gain validated learning.
Use available tools such as Surveymonkey, Google Docs, Feedbackify, and Unbounce to quickly produce an MVP when appropriate.
Develop Java web applications using Spring MVC Framework, MongoDB, and REST
Front-end development using HTML, CSS, and Javascript. From January 2012 to January 2014 (2 years 1 month) Associate Software Engineer @ Design and develop automated test cases to ensure a high quality software product using Selenium in Java. From January 2011 to December 2011 (1 year) QA Analyst @ Develop and write test cases to ensure a high quality software product. From June 2008 to December 2010 (2 years 7 months)
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics @ UCLA From 2004 to 2008 No Degrees and no grades. Learning is what matters., Computer Science, Design, Business, Marketing, Sales, Psychology, Math, Science and more! @ Life: Continued self education Benny Wong is skilled in: Java, SQL, Agile Methodologies, Selenium, Agile Testing, Design Thinking, Human Computer Interaction, Lean Startup, Kanban, MongoDB, HTML, CSS, Solr
Websites:
http://www.bennycwong.com/,
http://blog.bennycwong.com/,
https://github.com/bennycwong/