Connie Leung - Senior Director, Financial Services Business Lead

Connie Leung

Senior Director, Financial Services Business Lead - Asia at Microsoft

Hong Kong, China

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Summary

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Rockstar

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Top School

Connie Leung is a senior technology and industry leader who heads Microsoft’s Financial Services business across Asia Pacific, guiding banks, insurers and capital markets through cloud, data, AI, blockchain and Open API-driven transformations. With more than 20 years in financial services and over a decade leading regional strategy at Microsoft and SWIFT, she blends deep domain expertise with go-to-market and regulatory experience to drive innovation in payments, risk, open banking and digital customer journeys. Equally at home with partners, fintechs and regulators, Connie is known for accelerating practical adoption of emerging tech while ensuring compliance and commercial outcomes. A former recipient of recognition among Hong Kong’s 25 Women Leaders in Fintech, she also codes—contributing to open-source projects on authentication and community learning—bringing a rare combination of product, business and hands-on engineering curiosity.

11 years of coding experience

4 years of employment as a software developer

Higher Diploma, Mathematics, Statistics and Computing, Higher Diploma, Mathematics, Statistics and Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hons degree, Hons degree at Hons degree - Member of British Computer Society

Github Skills (14)

two-factor-authentication10

javascript10

fullstack-development10

nodejs10

meteor10

full-stack10

otp10

totp10

back-end-development9

algorithm9

html9

css9

user-interface9

algorithms9

Programming languages (11)

TypeScriptJavaShellCScalaJavaScriptVueHTML

Github contributions (5)

speakeasyjs/speakeasy

Dec 2016 - Jun 2017

**NOT MAINTAINED** Two-factor authentication for Node.js. One-time passcode generator (HOTP/TOTP) with support for Google Authenticator.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:22 commits, 11 PRs, 1 push in 6 months

Contributions summary:Connie contributed to the `speakeasyjs/speakeasy` repository by implementing features related to the HOTP algorithm and URL generation. They modified the `index.js` and `test` files to incorporate the counter parameter in the HOTP URL and to call `encodeURIComponent`. Further changes were made to incorporate the issuer parameter when generating a secret and to ensure required fields are present in both HOTP and TOTP verification processes.

two-factorfactor-authenticationgoogle-authenticatortwo-factor-authenticationhotp

codebuddies/codebuddies

Oct 2017 - Dec 2018

CodeBuddies.org: Community-organized hangouts for learning programming together - community-built using MeteorJS

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:112 commits, 46 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 2 months

Contributions summary:Connie's commits primarily focused on enhancements and fixes related to the study group feature within the CodeBuddies platform. They implemented features to check for unique study group names, enabled the display of online members within the study group sidebar, and added a mechanism for users to update their status. Furthermore, the user addressed issues with hangout scheduling, and revised the user interface of the study group page. The commits indicate a strong emphasis on both front-end and back-end development.

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