Kit Loong
Group Manager at Rakuten
Putuo District, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolKit Loong is a pragmatic engineering leader with 10 years of experience building and delivering web systems across APAC, currently managing a global team at Rakuten from Shanghai. He blends hands-on backend expertise in PHP 8, Go and MySQL with React/Next.js front-end work to ship user-focused interfaces and scalable backends. As a rotated Scrum master and former tech lead, he routinely scopes projects, removes blockers, and keeps releases on schedule while elevating client outcomes. An active open-source maintainer, he has improved Laravel migrations tooling and contributed a Next.js dashboard boilerplate, showing attention to developer ergonomics and UI polish. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic consulting and cross-cultural collaboration across Japan and India.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Multimedia, 3.66, Bachelor's Degree, Multimedia, 3.66 at Universiti Utara MalaysiaSijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM), Science Stream, Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM), Science Stream at SMK Seri Garing
English, Chinese, Malay
Github Skills (21)
database-migrations10
dashboard10
bootstrap10
admin10
laravel-mix10
typescript10
nextjs10
laravel10
php10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
database-schema10
database-migration10
typescripts10
react10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kitloong/laravel-migrations-generator
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Laravel Migrations Generator: Automatically generate your migrations from an existing database schema.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:43 releases, 23 reviews, 564 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kit made several changes to the Laravel Migrations Generator repository, focusing on improvements related to database schema generation. Their contributions involved utilizing the `Illuminate\Support\Str` class, linting the code, and adding functionality related to Way/Generators. The user also addressed bug fixes and added support for custom column types within the migrations.
mysqlphpexisting-databasemigrations-generatorlaravel-migrations
kitloong/nextjs-dashboard
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
A Next.JS boilerplate with the famous Open Source Boostrap Admin Template, CoreUI.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 53 PRs, 75 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kit primarily focused on implementing and updating the user interface of the Next.js dashboard. Their commits show integration of the CoreUI template, addition of a sample Pokémon page with data display, and updates to the sidebar and header components. They also addressed layout issues and implemented features such as pagination while incorporating Next.js 13 updates, showcasing a focus on frontend development within the project's framework.
next-jsreactbootstrap5tailwindcssboilerplate
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