Jason Cheow
Senior Software Engineer at Ruckus Wireless
Singapore
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Top SchoolJason Cheow is a senior software engineer based in Singapore with 17 years of experience architecting and shipping full-stack web applications, particularly in indoor positioning and retail analytics. He blends design sensibilities with deep technical chops, having built YFind’s WiFi-based YPS and TheRetailHQ analytics platform using Redis, MongoDB, Ember.js and D3.js, and later integrating those capabilities into Ruckus Wireless products. Comfortable from database schema to front-end UX, he has a track record of modernizing legacy code and dependencies—evidenced by upgrading and refactoring test suites for the Ruby on Rails blogging app Enki. Jason’s background spans agencies and product teams, delivering for clients like HBO Asia and the Singapore Tourism Board while advocating practical, CSS-driven interfaces early in his career. He brings a pragmatic “sweeper” mindset: able to design, implement and maintain systems end-to-end while surfacing useful insights for product teams.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons, 1st Class), Multimedia Arts, BA (Hons, 1st Class), Multimedia Arts at SAE Institute SingaporeDiploma, Computer Studies, Diploma, Computer Studies at Informatics Computer SchoolsDiploma, Multimedia Software Engineering, Diploma, Multimedia Software Engineering at Singapore Polytechnic
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Github Skills (11)
rspec10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
testing9
amazon-s39
dependency-management9
cors9
emberjs6
twitter-bootstrap6
javascript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xaviershay/enki
Oct 2008 - Nov 2010
A Ruby on Rails blogging app for the fashionable developer. It's better than Mephisto or SimpleLog
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on upgrading the Ruby on Rails blogging application, 'Enki,' to a newer version (2.1.1, and then 2.2.2). They also upgraded the will_paginate and RSpec gems, showing a focus on dependency management and test suite maintenance. Furthermore, the user refactored the testing suite to accommodate default pagination, indicating a thorough understanding of the application's internal structure and testing methodologies.
ruby-on-railsrailsrubybloggingruby-on
jasoncheow/reset_css
Jul 2008 - Oct 2010
Contributions:12 commits in 2 years 2 months
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