Alvin So
Information Technology Manager
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlvin So is an Information Technology Manager with over 10 years of hands-on experience leading small technical teams and driving digital transformation in manufacturing. At Wing Hon Precision he led ERP implementation and an Industry 4.0 pilot that cut labor costs by 30% and accelerated data visibility by 75%, pairing business process design with technical delivery. His background includes R&D work on OLAP technologies at IBM and on-site consulting for enterprise clients, giving him a strong blend of engineering, analytics, and stakeholder-facing skills. An active Java contributor to the well-known Open Liberty project, he has improved core utility classes and edition-handling logic, showing attention to reliable backend systems. He holds advanced training in computer security from Columbia Engineering and combines infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity awareness, and practical software development to bridge operations and product needs.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Upper Canada CollegeLa Salle CollegeMaster of Engineering - MEng, Computer Security, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Security at Columbia Engineering
English, Chinese, chinese - putonghua, French
Github Skills (5)
javas10
java10
openliberty9
version-control7
git7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 8 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alvin primarily contributed to the `InstallUtils` and `ExceptionUtils` Java classes within the `open-liberty` repository. Their work focused on fixing messages related to product editions and improving import statements. They also added a missing method related to edition retrieval. Additionally, the user merged changes from the origin/master branch and handled an "Open_Web" edition.
application-serveropenliberty
alvinso/open-liberty
Nov 2017 - Aug 2019
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
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