Murvin Lai
Co-Founder Director at Almond Tree Media Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMurvin Lai is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder with over 16 years in web development and more than five years in game development, currently leading Almond Tree Media from Vancouver. He specializes in Node.js, Express, MongoDB and Redis, designing high-performance, cloud-native backends and migrating monoliths to microservices on AWS. Murvin pairs hands-on engineering with product and business sense—he’s built scalable game backends, progressive reward systems, and a real-estate marketing platform (Vealty) that blends production and marketing services. A certified MongoDB developer/DBA and published NPM package author, he favors practical, well-structured code and automation of deployment and testing processes. Notably, he moved teams from service-oriented to microservices architectures at scale and prefers email-first communication, reflecting a disciplined, focused collaboration style.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
StevestonBSc Computing Science, BSc Computing Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Chinese, Chinese, Japanese
Stackoverflow
2,296reputation
342kreached
14answers
29questions
eclipse
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Github Skills (75)
aws-http-api9
eclipse9
nodemailer8
custom-domain7
audio7
stripe7
nodejs7
nodejs-library7
aws7
restriction6
django6
drm6
web-application6
expressjs6
e-mail6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
murvinlai/string-to-json
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:15 commits in 20 days
murvinlai/matrix-3d
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:10 commits in 1 day
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