Duncan Mak
Head Of Engineering, User at Lalamove
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolDuncan Mak is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11 years’ experience building and scaling backend systems and distributed services across startups and high-growth platforms in Hong Kong. Currently Head of Engineering, User at Lalamove, he has progressed from hands-on backend development to managing multi-location teams and owning product-wide architectures and billing, authentication, and notification platforms. He blends deep systems design and Scrum practice—holding a PSM I—with a track record of shipping shared infrastructure like centralized billing, SSO, and email platforms that reduced duplication across products. Comfortable moving between code and organizational strategy, he has led migrations of legacy billing models and published a handy npm validation tool used across teams. Open to new methodologies and technologies, he favors data-driven decisions and clear communication to turn complex requirements into reliable, production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Maryknoll Fathers' SchoolHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (120)
http-request10
ajv10
protocol-buffers9
rest9
api9
swagger-ui9
protobuf9
whenever9
swagger9
oas9
openapi9
rest-api9
serialization9
nodejs9
js-client9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Duncan00/simple-voting-api
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:35 pushes in 4 months
Duncan00/swagger-ajv
Dec 2018 - May 2019
Old name: koa-swagger-ajv
Contributions:7 pushes in 5 months
ajvkoaswagger-uiopenapiswagger
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