Tim Hsu

Professional Software Engineer

Objectives

FIRE - Financially Independent. Retired Early. ONLY looking for hybrid/remote/WFH/part-time/freelance/contract work. Willing to accept LOW salary for EASY work or work that could be automated.

Web
http://yeehsu.freeshell.org
Email
zaken520@gmail.com
Phone
852 9273 7829
Address
Yau Ma Tei. Hong Kong

Professional Skills

C++ / C# .NET
OOP & Design Patterns
Data Structures & Algorithms
WPF, API, MVC, MVVM
Agile, CI/CD, TDD, SCRUM
IPC & Multi-threading

Work Experience

Self Employed 🔸 Freelance
January 2024 - Present
  • Working on self projects to determine market sentiment, angel/VC investment flows
  • Use C# .NET 9 WPF, consolidate information to determine smart/retail/institutional money flow
  • Use latest C# tech stack, including minimal API, async WPF app, AWS Cloud and services
  • Developed own project to make smart decison trades, risk management, and market sentiment
    • Senior .NET Contractor 🔸 Randstad Hong Kong Ltd - Temus Ltd. FWD Hong Kong Ltd.
    May 2023 - January 2024
  • Responsible for WebApi serverless backend development in C# .NET 6 for client FWD
  • Implementation of all WebApi using AWS Cloud, RDS, S3, Api Gateway/Lambda, and Redis Cache
  • Implementation of all related Engagement (Insurance) related activities on FWD OMNE App
  • Requirements gathering, full SDLC on Agile, and full support on every sprint release
    • Senior Software Engineer 🔸 10kM Trading Ltd.
    April 2022 - November 2022
  • Lead agile team to develop high freqency-low latency Market Making services/strategies
  • Lead the development of Market Data, OMS, FIX connectivity, WebUI, etc in C# .Net Core
  • Developed quant and algorithms for real-time automated trading/hedging for Spot/Futures
  • Developed in house hedger/executor for traders in C# WPF to easily liquidate crypto assets
    • Senior System Analyst 🔸 Sharp Point Ltd.
    January 2019 - March 2022
  • Developed new derivatives trading platform in C# .NET Core, WPF, Prism MVVM
  • Developed FIX4.2 connectivity with brokers written in C++11, Boost ASIO
  • Wrote various micro-services in both C++/C#, C++/CLI, scripts
  • Implemented web services, web sockets, web api, windows services, AWS Secret Manager
    • Senior .NET Consultant 🔸 Avanade
    November 2017 - December 2018
  • Provided .NET consultancy to various fortune 500 clients, including Accenture
  • Used C# Web API 2.0, MVC, Message Queue, Asynchronous calls, MSSQL, MSUnit
  • Worked in Agile/SCRUM methods including CI/CD, TDD, BDD, SpecFlow, refactoring
  • Helped in DevOps, releases, Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, Selenium, Microsoft Azure
    • Lead Analyst Programmer 🔸 Concord Pacific Satellite Technologies Ltd.
    November 2015 - June 2017
  • Rejoined company to help lead and revamp entire software infrastructure
  • Saved the company from bankruptcy and retained clients due to failing software services
  • Lead using C#, MySQL, sockets, threads, WCF, Javascript AngularJS, JQuery, Bootstrap
  • Introduced to team: Agile, TDD, NUnit, MantisBT, SVN, GIT, Skype, Google Maps
    • Contrator / Developer 🔸 Global Talent Services Ltd. - Unisys Hong Kong Ltd.
    January 2015 - November 2015
  • Independant contractor implemented banking Signature Web Viewer Verification system
  • Fullstack using VB/C# .NET, WCF, HTML5, CSS3, AngularJS, JQuery, AJAX, REST, MSSQL
  • Part of full SDLC in various phases, staging, SIT, UAT, then LIVE
    • Software Engineer 🔸 Sungard Global Trading Ltd.
    August 2011 - December 2014
  • Participated in development of real-time trading platform in WIN32 C++
  • Worked with various teams OMS, FIX, Market Data, Market Access, and Exchange PMs
  • Debugged trading algorithms, strategies on cash, equities and derivative market
  • Cross functional teams using Agile, TDD, and daily SCRUM to meet sprint targets
    • Sr. Software Engineer 🔸 QVIVO Ltd.
    October 2010 - August 2011
  • Developed cross platform media player in standard C++/STL, Boost library, threads
  • Integrated Facebook API, cURL, AWS Cloud, IPC and memory sharing libraries
  • Used Agile, TDD, Google unit testing, FFMpeg, Scaleform GFX, DirectX, OpenGL
    • Sr. Software Engineer 🔸 Concord Pacific Satellite Technologies Ltd.
    November 2008 - October 2010
  • Innovated Web Traffic & GPS software for fleet management
  • Embedded media player development using WinCE C++ MFC, WIN32, COM, HTTP, FTP
  • Developed backend in C Linux, sockets, POSIX threads, MySQL tunning
    • Sr. Software Engineer 🔸 OPSWAT, Inc.
    April 2005 - October 2008
  • Number 2 employee, helped innovated and grew the company to 500+ employees
  • Created new and profitable software in Security/Antivirus/Antispyware/Firewall SDK
  • Implemented API library in OOP C++, C#, Java to serve clients such as Cisco, DOD

    • Education

    Bachelor of Computer Science 🔸 San Francisco State University
    1996 - 2002
    Focused on System and Software Design. Network Communications. Integrated Circuits, Engineering. Data Flow Automata. Discrete and Complex Analysis.