Ray Chong
Senior Software Engineer at Crypto.com
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolRay Chong is a Senior Software Engineer based in Hong Kong with seven years of experience building high-performance payment, wallet, ledger, and communication systems at scale. He has a track record of designing resilient architectures—leading ledger and payment optimizations at HSBC and pioneering an omnichannel Communication-as-a-Service platform at Lalamove that handled high concurrency and provider fallback logic. At Crypto.com he removed vendor dependencies by building an in-house ledger with full observability and is currently building an AI-native engineering ecosystem that leverages agents for code generation, automated reviews, and knowledge management. Ray combines deep systems-level optimization (CQRS, Kafka, partitioning, virtual threads) with strong developer experience discipline—onboarding docs, runbooks, and engineering narratives—to speed delivery and reduce incidents. He’s comfortable both as a technical lead and hands-on engineer, often refactoring legacy code and upgrading dependencies to harden security. An unconventional strength: he embeds AI into the developer workflow to automate edge-case testing and accelerate feature delivery.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Diploma, Software Engineering, Higher Diploma, Software Engineering at Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi)Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong
Chinese, English, Chinese
Github Skills (23)
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firebase-admin8
firebase-authentication7
java7
authentication7
tvos7
firebase7
firebase-database7
firebase-db7
pug6
macos6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
raychongtk/ticket-queue
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
a simple ticket queue app for experience WebSocket
Contributions:19 commits, 14 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 years 2 months
websocketnodejspugticket-queuetypescript
raychongtk/awesome-software-engineer
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
something that your school doesn't teach you
Contributions:6 commits, 139 pushes in 22 days
backendsoftware-architecture
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