Dan Tong Email & Phone Number

Wellington, New Zealand

I worked as the Engineering Lead at Mevo, a New Zealand based car share company. This role consisted of hands-on software development, as well as mentoring and upskilling other team members in the engineering team. Some key components of my role are: - Maintaining a Ruby on Rails/Postgres REST API monolith - Building internal and external web front-ends with React/Typescript - Conducting code reviews, and mentoring junior and intermediate engineers - Managing infrastructure on AWS using Terraform - Maintaining CI/CD test and deployment pipelines in Github Actions

Wellington, New Zealand

I worked as a Software Engineer with Voxels, building web-based virtual online spaces. My role primarily focused on using web and audio technologies. A couple of key projects that I worked on were: - Building a voice chat system to allow users to communicate in-world- Developing a dynamic soundtrack that changed based on the user's position and movement within the world

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

I worked as the Technical Lead at Tapi, a property maintenance web platform based in New Zealand and Australia. I started at Tapi as their first employee in 2017, and helped them to develop a web application that has scaled from supporting 300 homes (in 2017) to 120,000+ homes when I finished in 2021. This role involved: - Developing and maintaining an Elixir/Phoenix/Postgres web application and REST API- Hiring new engineers and upskilling them in Elixir - Conducting code reviews and leading engineering best practices- Managing infrastructure in AWS using Terraform - Introducing test and deployment automation using CircleCI CI/CD tools - Assisting in the development of a Vue frontend

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

My roles at Cohelix involved a variety of different tasks, and I was involved in all parts of the product lifecycle, from conception to reality. As the Lead Developer, I ensured that our product was developed and tested to a high standard, and hosted on a reliable and secure environment. As Head of Product, I ensured that the product we were building solved our customers’ problem. My toolbox included:Application developmentRuby on RailsInfrastructureAWS S3, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk (managed using Terraform)Testing and deploymentGitHub + CircleCI to manage git workflow and Continuous DeploymentTeamLeading 2 part-time freelance developers to assist with development and code reviewsCustomer ValidationPrototyping using Illustrator, Sketch, InVision, pencil and paperCustomer interviews, co-design sessions with early adoptersDesign sprints, lean canvases, and various other lean startup techniques

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Wellington