Howell Tam
Software Engineer at Wowhead
Greater Sydney Area Australia
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Top SchoolHowell Tam is a seasoned software engineer with over 16 years of commercial experience and 24 years in the industry, currently building software at Wowhead from Greater Sydney. He is polyglot—fluent in C, C++, Java, Perl, JavaScript, Lua, Python and shell scripting—and brings deep Linux and cross-architecture expertise to complex system and game-related projects. Howell has hands-on experience reversing software, working with encryption and network protocols, and analysing Android apps and games, which complements his passion for open source where he has contributed features and fixes. He spent a long tenure as a senior engineer at Fluffy Spider Technologies, demonstrating sustained delivery and technical leadership across product cycles. Bilingual in English and Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), he combines clear communication with a knack for debugging intricate software design problems.
24 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
St. Joseph's CollegeBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Technology SydneyRosaryhill School
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (7)
mouse10
keyboard9
network9
synergy8
linux1
wine1
freebsd1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pigeond/fgmap
Mar 2006 - Nov 2019
FGMap
Contributions:296 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 13 years 10 months
pigeond/gimp-plugin-starnet
Aug 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year
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