Vincent Tam
Career Advisor at Lingnan University
Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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Vincent Tam is an experienced career and talent strategist with over 28 years of cross-sector experience spanning corporate banking, risk and internal audit, and leadership in HR and talent development. He has led group-wide learning, succession and governance programmes for major Hong Kong conglomerates and steered talent transformation at HKPC, blending rigorous risk discipline with people-centred development. Now advising universities and an EdTech startup, he mentors students and SEN learners in practical career skills while guiding competitive case teams and consulting practicums. An award-winning HR leader (Best HR Leader 2023–24), he is known for designing scalable L&D frameworks and incubation initiatives that convert strategy into measurable capability gains. Beyond HR, Vincent contributes to technical open-source projects around static site tooling and Staticman integrations, reflecting a hands-on, analytical approach rooted in his quantitative background. Based in Kowloon, he combines corporate gravitas with a restless curiosity for education innovation and practical student impact.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Accounting, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Accounting at The University of Texas at El PasoAccelerating Management Talent (AMT) Program, Accelerating Management Talent (AMT) Program at Ivey Business School at Western UniversityGraduate Diploma in Financial Services Insurance, Graduate Diploma in Financial Services Insurance at Deakin UniversityMaster of Accounting, Master of Accounting at Curtin University
English, Chinese, putonghua
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Github Skills (35)
data-visualizations10
hugo10
javascript10
jquery10
css10
statistics10
data-visualisation10
front-end-development10
jekyll10
html10
data-visualization10
web-development10
julia10
multilingual9
distributions9
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
daattali/beautiful-jekyll
Dec 2018 - Oct 2022
✨ Build a beautiful and simple website in literally minutes. Demo at https://beautifuljekyll.com
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:103 commits, 15 PRs, 68 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to the implementation and enhancement of Staticman, a comment system, within the Beautiful Jekyll theme. Their work involved adding support for Staticman v3, including code modifications, documentation updates, and changes to CSS and HTML templates. They also focused on improving the user experience by implementing JavaScript-based form handling to mitigate spam and fixed redirection errors related to the Staticman integration. Furthermore, they updated the Javascript code and refactored parts to make it compatible with IE and jQuery slim.
ruby-gemtailwindcsssimple-websiteliquidjekyll-themes
halogenica/beautifulhugo
Nov 2018 - Feb 2021
Theme for the Hugo static website generator
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 15 PRs, 38 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Hugo theme. Their work includes fixing typos, improving HTML structure, updating JavaScript libraries, and modifying CSS. They also addressed issues related to comment functionality using Staticman, and made improvements to the website's appearance and user experience.
hugoforestrystatic-website-generatorwebsite-generatorhugo-theme
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