Soon Soon
Co-founder, Director at Tinker Class
Singapore
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Top SchoolSoon Soon is a Singapore-based co-founder and director with 15 years of experience building hands-on education startups that teach coding and making, including Tinkertanker, Tinker Class, and the recently launched tinkermind. He blends technical fluency from an MS in Electrical Engineering at Stanford with classroom and curriculum leadership—having led IT curriculum at Raffles Institution and run advanced mobile/web programmes at SMU Academy. Equally comfortable designing courses, coding projects, and creating playful content (yes, he once drew a run of chicken webcomics), he makes technical learning approachable and fun. His background spans government policy in higher education, academic teaching roles, and freelance illustration, reflecting a rare mix of pedagogy, product-building, and creative communication.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Graduate Diploma Secondary Education, Post-Graduate Diploma Secondary Education at National Institute of Education, SingaporeHigh School, High School at Raffles InstitutionMS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
849reputation
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8answers
3questions
Github Skills (85)
controller10
alphanumeric10
bit10
tinker9
ring9
minecraft9
aws-iot9
makecode9
bbc-micro9
real-time-clock9
dmx5129
gopro9
science8
adafruit8
clock8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tinkertanker/pxt-alphanumeric-ht16k33
Jan 2018 - Nov 2020
Tinkercademy MakeCode Package for the HT16K33 Alphanumeric Display (beta)
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 10 months
alphanumericmakecode
tinkertanker/pxt-ir-receiver
Jan 2018 - Mar 2020
Tinkercademy MakeCode package for using an IR (infrared) receiver with the BBC micro:bit (beta)
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 2 months
goprodmx512remote-controlbbcbbc-micro
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