Li Ong
Senior Associate Director
Singapore
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolLi Ong is a seasoned technology leader with 11 years of professional experience, currently serving as Senior Associate Director at the National University of Singapore where he has led major IT programmes including SAP S/4Hana, Concur, Ariba and a campus-wide financial system tender. He blends strategic programme leadership with hands-on technical skills, having earlier managed IT projects at Panasonic, IHiS and SAP and overseen day-to-day maintenance teams. An active open-source contributor, Li has implemented extractors and improved subtitle and playlist support for high-profile projects like yt-dlp and youtube-dl, and built full-stack UI features for the popular Xiaomi Dafang camera hacks. He is comfortable across back-end extractor development and front-end UI work, demonstrating a rare mix of enterprise programme delivery and practical coding craftsmanship. Based in Singapore, he holds a Masters in Business and a degree in Information Systems, and is known for pragmatic problem-solving—often fueled by coffee.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Degree, Information Systems, Degree, Information Systems at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Diploma, Information Technology, Diploma, Information Technology at Temasek PolytechnicMasters, Business, Masters, Business at Curtin University
Github Skills (23)
apim10
json10
yt-dlp10
javascript10
python10
feature-extraction10
css10
extraction10
ytdl10
webscraping10
video-download10
regular-expression10
api10
data-extraction10
html10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Jan 2016 - Jan 2021
Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 34 PRs, 41 comments in 5 years
Contributions summary:Li contributed to the `youtube-dl` project by implementing and improving video extraction support for the Daum.net and Vlive.tv video platforms. Their work involved fixing bugs, adding new features like playlist and channel support, and improving subtitle handling. The user also addressed copy-paste mistakes and test enhancements.
downloadervideosyoutubeyoutube-dlvideo-sites
EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 7 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Li primarily contributed to the development of the web interface for a Xiaomi Dafang camera modification project. Their work included implementing new UI features using Bulma CSS framework, modifying existing CGI scripts to return JSON data for more dynamic UI updates, and fixing bugs. They also implemented a shutdown command and added UI elements for camera controls. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to motion detection configuration and camera status toggling.
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