Leon Poon
Lead Software Engineer at Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Singapore
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Top SchoolLeon Poon is a Lead Software Engineer based in Singapore with 11 years of experience building and leading production systems for major financial institutions. He has progressed from web developer and intern roles to senior engineering positions at Merrill Lynch, Standard Chartered and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, bringing deep domain knowledge of banking technology and enterprise delivery. Comfortable hands-on in code yet focused on architecture and team leadership, he blends practical engineering with a technopreneurial mindset honed at KTH and NUS Overseas Colleges. Known wryly as a "caped baldy coder wannabe" on GitHub, he pairs a playful developer persona with a steady track record of shipping reliable systems in high-stakes environments.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
CompSci/Technopreneurship, CompSci/Technopreneurship at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyGCE 'O' Levels, GCE 'O' Levels at Chung Cheng High School (Main)Bachelor of Computing, Bachelor of Computing at National University of SingaporeGCE 'A' Levels, GCE 'A' Levels at Hwa Chong Junior CollegeStockholm 3, Stockholm 3 at NUS Overseas Colleges
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Github Skills (56)
staging10
docker-image10
linksys10
tasmota10
esp826610
openwrt10
glob10
esp3210
arduino10
documentation10
tuya9
webpack-plugin9
knx9
ota9
timers9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
LeonPoon/ChangiAirportPassengerArrivalsDepartures
Dec 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 tags in 5 years 4 months
LeonPoon/openwrt
Feb 2017 - Dec 2020
A fork of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git for my effort to add support for Linksys EA8100. Changes in branches. Diffs: https://github.com/LeonPoon/openwrt/compare/master...master-linksys_ea8100 or https://github.com/LeonPoon/openwrt/compare/master-linksys_ea8100...master-linksys_ea8100-debian
Contributions:91 commits, 2 PRs, 57 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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