Desmond Lua
Full Stack Engineer Founder at LUA Software
Subang Jaya City Council, Selangor, Malaysia
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Top SchoolDesmond Lua is a pragmatic full stack engineer and founder with 14 years of professional experience and two decades building web and Android products from concept to scale. He bootstrapped Malaysia Most Wanted into a leading restaurant discovery site (peaking at 300K monthly visitors) and launched a dozen consumer and enterprise apps while running his software house, demonstrating end-to-end product instincts from UX to backend optimization. Deeply proficient in Python (Flask), JavaScript (Vue.js) and Kotlin (Android), he has migrated legacy systems to cost-efficient cloud stacks and engineered high-throughput data capture systems for clients like the Security Commission Malaysia. Comfortable managing remote teams and data operations, he also brings hands-on exposure to C#, C/C++, Java and PHP and a published research background in signal processing. Multilingual in English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Malay, Desmond combines entrepreneurial grit with a data-driven, performance-first engineering approach.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Computing (Internet Technology), Best Project Award, B.Sc, Computing (Internet Technology), Best Project Award at Staffordshire University
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Github Skills (152)
javascript10
vue10
autocomplete9
flask9
google-app-engine9
android9
pyramid8
webapp8
seo8
python8
hugo8
kotlin8
nuxt8
bootstrap8
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
luaz/lua-makes-game
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
luaz/pomocraft
May 2024 - May 2024
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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