Summary
Kangol is a founder and technology executive with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently serving as Founder and COO of Ricequant in Hong Kong. He began as a web developer and frontend engineer, advancing to Founding CTO before transitioning into operational leadership, bringing deep hands-on expertise in Java, JavaScript, HTML and CSS to product and platform decisions. His background includes building trading systems and full-text search skeletons, reflecting a blend of low-latency backend engineering and pragmatic frontend architecture. Trained with a BE and MPhil in Computer Science from HKUST, he combines academic rigor with startup grit to scale technical teams and systems. An interviewer and mentor throughout his career, he retains an engineer’s attention to code quality while running company operations.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Chinese, English, Japanese, Chinese