Jack Wong
Principal Software Engineer at CoinGecko
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Wong is a Principal Software Engineer based in Kuala Lumpur with 11 years of experience building resilient Ruby on Rails backends and cloud-native services. At CoinGecko he progressed from software engineer to tech lead and now principal, shaping integrations and platform reliability for cryptocurrency market data. He has hands-on experience with AWS (RDS, EC2, ElastiCache, S3), TDD practices, and coordinating complex vendor integrations across APAC from prior roles at Fave and Booster.com. An active contributor to crypto tooling, he added multi-exchange support and compatibility fixes to the popular coingecko/cryptoexchange Ruby library, reflecting both product sensibility and pragmatic engineering. Colleagues describe him as mission-driven—“everything goes back to the earth”—bringing steady technical leadership and attention to code quality to fast-moving teams.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer & Information Tech, Bachelor’s Degree Computer & Information Tech at Purdue UniversityAmerican University Program Computer Science, American University Program Computer Science at INTI International University, Nilai, Malaysia
English, Chinese, Malay, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
crypto10
cryptocurrency10
exchange10
apim10
rspec10
api10
cryptocurrencies10
ruby10
rubygems8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
coingecko/cryptoexchange
Mar 2018 - May 2020
[UNMAINTAINED] Ruby library to query market data from cryptocurrency exchanges (https://www.coingecko.com)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 336 commits, 394 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jack primarily worked on implementing and integrating new cryptocurrency exchanges within the Ruby library. They focused on adding support for the Neraex and ExtStock exchanges by incorporating their APIs for retrieving tickers, order books, and trade data. The user also addressed a Ruby version compatibility issue within the codebase.
queryexchangecoinbasecoingeckokucoin
qwuen/punctuate
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 10 months
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