Wenjie Yek
Senior Software Engineer at CoinGecko
Selangor, Malaysia
Summary
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Top SchoolWenjie Yek is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building Ruby on Rails applications, currently driving backend development at CoinGecko from Damansara, Selangor. Progressing from intern to senior engineer at CoinGecko since 2018, he brings deep product knowledge of high-traffic fintech infrastructure and crypto data services. He has practical experience integrating hardware and vision features early in his career—implementing barcode readers and OpenCV camera capture for a tuition management system. Comfortable across the full stack, Wenjie focuses on delivering reliable, production-grade systems and analytics that scale. His background in software engineering from Southern University College combines formal training with a track record of iterating quickly in startup-like environments. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who turns ambiguous requirements into maintainable code and measurable outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bechelor of Information Technology (Hons) in Software Engineering, Information Technology, Bechelor of Information Technology (Hons) in Software Engineering, Information Technology at Southern University College
Chinese, English, Malay
Github Skills (19)
crypto10
coinbase10
rubygems10
coingecko10
kucoin10
bitcoin10
ruby10
cryptocurrency10
exchange10
bitmex10
ethereum10
ruby-wrapper8
api6
api-client6
testing2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
coingecko/coingecko-ruby
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
WIP: Ruby wrapper for the CoinGecko API (https://www.coingecko.com/en/api)
Contributions:33 commits, 16 PRs, 31 pushes in 5 months
api-clientapiruby-wrappercoingecko-apicoingecko
wenjieyek/cryptoexchange
Feb 2018 - Apr 2020
Ruby library to query market data from cryptocurrency exchanges (https://www.coingecko.com)
Contributions:230 pushes, 262 branches in 2 years 2 months
querycoingeckoexchangesrubycryptocurrency-exchanges
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