Benedict Wong
Frontend Developer at BookMyShow Southeast Asia
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolBenedict Wong is a frontend developer with 12 years of engineering experience, currently building user experiences for BookMyShow Southeast Asia after leading frontend work for UOB's Digital Banking team. He has end-to-end React delivery experience, created reusable Node.js and React component libraries to standardize design systems, and enforces quality through Jest and React Testing Library. Benedict pairs a formal engineering background in mechanical and marine disciplines with web application training, bringing a methodical, systems-thinking approach to UI problems. His open-source contributions include refactoring exchange integrations in the well-known XChange Java library, showing comfort with backend protocols and cross-domain systems. Based in Singapore, he moves fluidly between product-facing frontends and infrastructure-level work, often tackling integration edges that others overlook.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Education, Web Application Development, Diploma of Education, Web Application Development at Trent Global CollegeBachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering at Nanyang Technological UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering at University of StrathclydeDiploma with Merit, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Diploma with Merit, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Singapore Polytechnic
Github Skills (9)
exchange10
javas10
exchange-online10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
integrations10
java10
exchange-server10
api-design9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
knowm/XChange
Feb 2014 - Feb 2018
XChange is a Java library providing a streamlined API for interacting with 60+ Bitcoin and Altcoin exchanges providing a consistent interface for trading and accessing market data.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:58 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Benedict primarily refactored the BTCChina integration within the XChange library. Their commits focused on updating the `BTCChinaTradeServiceRaw`, `BTCChinaAccountServiceRaw`, and associated example files. The changes involved restructuring code related to handling trade-related requests and account information specific to the BTCChina exchange. This work contributes to the library's ability to interact with and provide access to data from the BTCChina platform.
apiexchangejava-librarykucoinexchanges
ObsessiveOrange/RHCareerFairLayout
Mar 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:849 commits, 808 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
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