Alex Ling
Staff Software Engineer at BlueMeg
Bangkok, Thailand
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Ling is a Staff Software Engineer based in Bangkok with 11 years of experience building backend systems, APIs, and developer-focused products. He combines academic rigor—a PhD in Computer Science and a research stint at Princeton—with hands-on startup experience as a former co-founder and CTO. Currently leading technical efforts at BlueMeg after serving as Tech Lead at Theia, he excels at designing scalable backend architectures and improving API versioning, performance, and observability. An active open-source contributor, Alex implemented authentication, archive image loading, and reading-progress tracking for the self-hosted Mango manga server, reflecting a pragmatic focus on user-facing features and maintainable APIs. Comfortable as a digital nomad, he bridges research, product, and engineering teams to turn complex requirements into reliable production systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student Research Collaborator, Computer Science, Visiting Student Research Collaborator, Computer Science at Princeton UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
api-rest10
rest-api10
crystal-lang10
api-design10
restful-api10
webapp9
archiving9
web-application9
archives9
user-authentication9
web-development9
authentication9
archiver9
sqlite9
json8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
getmango/Mango
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
Mango is a self-hosted manga server and web reader
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 releases, 48 reviews, 962 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex implemented several key features for the self-hosted manga server, including user authentication through login and logout functionality. They integrated support for loading images from zipped archives and built out the backend API, including endpoints for fetching information, providing a direct download link, and managing download jobs. The user also worked on API improvements like the addition of proper versioning, more efficient operation, and implemented a system for tracking and presenting reading progress within the web application.
crystal-langcrystalhostedweb-applicationdocker
hkalexling/KonaBot-iOS
Nov 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:5 releases, 224 commits, 190 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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