Alex Wong
Owner at igloo
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolAlex Wong is a polyglot engineering leader and owner based in Chiyoda, Japan, with a decade of experience building scalable, cost-effective systems and refining both user and developer experiences across the stack. He has led engineering and product efforts as CPTO at ALY, Senior Software Engineer roles at BCG X and BCG Digital Ventures, and as Lead Software Engineer at Uhuru where he shipped IoT orchestration, frontend component libraries, and desktop tooling for device debugging. Comfortable in Venture CTO roles, Alex blends architecture, security, recruitment, and product direction to launch ventures in health IT, mental well-being, and finance. He pairs formal training in management, graphic design, and immersive software engineering with hands-on implementation in Node.js, React/Vue, Electron, and AWS. Beyond code, he leverages a background in design and multilingual experience to bridge designer, clinician, and engineering perspectives, optimizing workflows so experts spend more time on meaningful work. Currently running his own studio, he continues to help teams deliver pragmatic, maintainable systems that scale.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Management & Organizational Studies, Specialization in Finance and Administration, Minor in Japanese, Bachelor of Management & Organizational Studies, Specialization in Finance and Administration, Minor in Japanese at Western UniversityAdvanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack ReactorDiploma in Graphic Design, Diploma in Graphic Design at Academy of Design Toronto
English, Chinese, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (200)
amazon-cognito10
testing10
authentication10
vector-database10
aws-s310
serverless10
web-development10
lambda-functions10
javascript10
chromium10
editor10
amplify10
aws-apigateway10
firefox10
api10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
chantlong/wordzuki
Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:12 PRs, 198 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years
chantlong/amplify-push-slack-notifier-plugin
Jul 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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