Selwyn Tang
Director at Sanconway Development Ltd.
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolSelwyn Tang is a Director and property development specialist with over a decade of experience investing in and managing real estate and construction projects across Hong Kong and the PRC. Trained in construction management at Stanford and holding a magna cum laude degree in finance and systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, he blends technical project planning with financial acumen. As a dealmaker and professional manager at Sanconway Development, he has led investment and development strategies that bridge market, regulatory, and design considerations. Beyond leadership, he applies a hands-on approach to project execution, often acting as a stylist for building projects to align aesthetics and functionality. He also contributes to open-source software as a back-end developer, improving workflow and form functionality in scholarly publishing tools—an unexpected tech-facing facet in a traditionally real-estate-focused career. This combination of deep industry networks, cross-border experience, and technical curiosity underpins his pragmatic yet creative approach to development.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Finance, System Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor's Degree, Finance, System Engineering, Magna Cum Laude at University of PennsylvaniaMaster's Degree, Construction Management, Master's Degree, Construction Management at Stanford University
English, putonghua
Github Skills (8)
ojs10
workflow-management10
php10
web-development10
web-application10
webapp10
email-templates9
javascript8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pkp/pkp-lib
Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
The library used by PKP's applications OJS, OMP and OPS, open source software for scholarly publishing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 16 PRs, 19 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Selwyn primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements within the application's back-end logic, specifically related to workflow management, email variable handling, and form functionalities. Their contributions included addressing undefined variables, improving variable replacement in the TinyMCE editor, and supplying email variables for editor decisions and review reminders. Furthermore, the user integrated journal favicon functionality and corrected review form item reordering.
securityapplication-libraryweb-applicationpkp
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