Ng Fai is a Technical Lead and backend web developer with 13 years of professional experience and 9+ years focused on architecting and shipping PHP/Laravel e-commerce and enterprise web applications. Based in Kuala Lumpur, he leads cross-functional teams, manages AWS-hosted infrastructures (EC2, RDS, S3, CodePipeline), and drives ISO:27001-aligned information security and disaster recovery practices. He has a strong track record building high-availability platforms — from a 2,100+ daily-user HR/benefits portal to multi-channel e-commerce systems with payment gateway and mobile APIs — and routinely designs optimized MySQL schemas and queue/job systems for scale. An active OpenCart contributor, his backend fixes improved category management, cart UX, and order return integrity for a widely used open-source shopping cart. Equally comfortable hiring and mentoring engineers as he is diving into code, he prefers technical autonomy and aims to deepen expertise in cybersecurity. His decade-plus involvement with the web since 2000 reflects a pragmatic, product-minded engineer who values open platforms and measurable business impact.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
STPM Form 6, Science stream (Physics), STPM Form 6, Science stream (Physics) at SMK Taman Ehsan
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science - Information Systems and Management (Major), Pass With Honours, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science - Information Systems and Management (Major), Pass With Honours at Universiti Malaya
A free shopping cart system. OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online e-commerce solution.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:15 commits, 14 PRs, 5 comments in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ng primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the OpenCart e-commerce platform. Their work focused on fixing bugs in the category management system, specifically resolving incorrect parent ID and sort order issues. The user also implemented solutions to enhance the user experience, such as displaying placeholder images for products without images in cart views and fixing issues with email sending in contact forms. Further contributions included fixing missing product IDs in order returns.
Contributions:26 releases, 2 reviews, 141 PRs in 1 month
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