Steve Cheng Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hong Kong Sar

Institutional Securities Technology – Fund Service Technology[Spring Boot 2, Jasper, Angular, Python, Sybase, MongoDB, Liquibase, Redis, Jenkins]• Report Creation Tool- Developed a highly adaptable web app to replace outdated legacy and 3rd party statement generation tools. Reducing report customization and generation turnover time from days to minutes.- Improved query flexibility and conducted query plan performance tuning, enabling efficient extraction of data for the world's top 70 (AUM) hedge funds.- Engineered dynamic data sourcing and automated complex data joining RESTful API and micro-services, enabling seamless integration with upstream systems and sourcing statement generation data. - Led the initiative to decommission dependencies on Morgan Stanley proprietary libraries. Upgraded applications to SpringBoot 2, Swagger 2 (OAS3), JDK11/15/17, and JFrog Artifactory, preparing for future Azure cloud migration and application upscaling.- Responsible for JVM tuning (heap size & GC strategies), application memory usage analysis, and caching strategies, resulting in an average 30% reduction in dynamic data endpoint generation time. - Integrated Liquibase for automated deployment of database changes, fortifying Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CICD) flows.• Financial Statement Data Middle Layer Tool- Automated labor-intensive financial statement manual Excel operations by innovative web app and customized data processing steps with data adjustment tools. Achieved a transformative reduction of over 90% in manual Excel work, leading to an average 80% reduction in man-hours per fund.- Designed and implemented AG-Grid lazy loading with robust and generic MongoDB caching data structure for the web app, enabling efficient handling and display of large funds with millions of transaction records.- Implemented a generic and customizable financial report configuration tool to allow users to adjust complex report configs based on fund requirements.

Hong Kong Sar

Online Equities Platform- Optimized and enhanced legacy online equity system for better client migration- Developed user-friendly new online equity platform features including e-document functionalities and securities transfer form.- Engaged in cross-functional and highly diverse team (HK, Singapore, Malaysia, India) team to ensure the successful implementation of new UAE online equity web and mobile application features.

Digital Transformation Project – Customer Relationship Management (CRM)• CRM Web Full Stack Development [Angular / Spring Boot 2 / JHispster] - Led the design and implementation of global styling control and dynamic theme switching through SCSS, catering to user/business domain preferences such as Dark Mode. Achieved user profile-dependent theme changes. - Designed user interface utilizing FIGMA with dynamic master-child components & prototyping, ensuring an intuitive and engaging CRM experience.• Domain Entity Management [Java, Typescript, NodeJS / MongoDB, Nexus Repo] - Developed custom domain entity generator using a self-defined JSON format, supporting multiple languages. For rapid domain definition updates and ensuring consistency across multiple applications with correct versions. - Prepared dynamic MongoDB data patching scripts for efficient campaigns and promotion plans setup, seamless database migration, and data merging.• Document Generator [Angular / Express] - Build a prototype application for converting MS Word template document into PDF. Convert Word template that supports image, tables, and plain text templating.E-Payment & Order System (E-POS) [JS, Spring, Mybatis, Oracle, React, Jasper Report, WebView]- Led the full stack development with dynamic dependency checking for electronic order creation. - Developed RESTful APIs catering to multiple ordering channels, fostering cross-organization collaboration.- Engineered Jasper reports for dynamic generation of the order contract documents in PDF format.- Improved order creation efficiency by over 65% through caching, multithreading, and asynchronous tasks.SAS (Analytics Software & Solution) [SAS, React, NodeJS, WebSocket, Shell Script, SQL]- Developed robust backend applications for SAS CIStudio integration and data processing.- Responsible for conducting thorough review complex marketing campaign logics for customer segmentation strategies.

Hong Kong

E-Payment & Order System (E-POS)• Full-Stack Web App Development [JS / Spring / Mybatis / Oracle / React / Jasper Report / Webview] - Develop both frontend and backend application of the EPOS system. Complex dependencies checking for electronic order creation. Develop RESTful API different ordering channels such as mobile app and MVNO. - Create Jasper reports for dynamic generation of the order contract documents as PDF. - Code analysis to identify the bottle necking processes. Improve ordering process efficiency with over 65% improvement through caching, multithreading, and asynchronous task. - Maintain app running on iPad as a web app using IOS webview. SAS (Analytics Software & Solution)• SAS Customer Intelligence Studio (SAS CIStudio) [SAS, React, NodeJS, WebSocket, Shell Script, SQL] - Develop backend application (Shell Script, NodeJS, SAS program) to integrate with SAS CIStudio for data processing. Develop custom file upload page using React, NodeJS, and WebSocket. - Responsible to review marketing campaign logics for customer segmentation.

Hong Kong

- Droplet-based microfluidics research of double emulsions based on all aqueous systems - 3D modeling and prototyping of research devices- Construct 3D graphics for research paper publications

Hong Kong

- Research on food and beverage-related encapsulation technologies. Encapsulation product design and formulation development.- Prepare business, research, funding proposals, and pitching for start-up competitions- Develop company website using Angular.

Hong Kong

- Research on osteoarthritis of horse cell which involves cell culture and historical analysis.- Laboratory automation development with robotic arm prototype controlled by Arduino.- Build and update HKU Tissue Engineering website

- Design a new website layout. - Back-end database building. - Back-end system for staff to update the website content easily. www.aka.com.hk

- Research on tissue engineering and osteoarthritis.- Harvest human knee join cells for historical analysis by cell sectioning and confocal imaging.- Develop VBA program for PCR data post processing.

Master Of Science, Computer Science

Graduation Project: Smart Beta Cryptocurrency Portfolio Manager The project aims at utilizing a smart-beta investment strategy.

Bachelor Of Engineering In Engineering Science (Beng(Engsc)), Engineering Science, First Class Honours

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Bioengineering And Biomedical Engineering

Exchange Student (Fall)