Summary
Franz Wong is a senior software engineer based in Tokyo with 11 years of experience building backend systems and cloud-native infrastructure across finance and e-commerce. He has led technical teams and delivered production-ready membership, onboarding and open-banking platforms at Rakuten, HSBC and MUFG Tech, often owning architecture, CI/CD and release processes. Technically fluent in Java, Kotlin, Python and Node.js, and experienced with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes and databases from DynamoDB to Cassandra and Oracle, he blends hands-on development with DevOps and consultancy. Known for rescuing stagnant releases and establishing knowledge bases and pipelines, he favors pragmatic technical debt reduction and team enablement. His background includes long-term consulting roles and cross-border team leadership, and he shares technical thoughts publicly on dev.to.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Upper second-class honours, Bachelor of Computer Science, Upper second-class honours at City University of Hong Kong
English, Chinese, Chinese, Japanese