Yap Kheng
Staff Application Engineer
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolYap Kheng is a Staff Application Engineer based in Singapore with 12 years of experience building user-focused web and mobile products, blending front-end craftsmanship with full-stack and DevOps knowledge. He has led teams and mentored juniors while delivering production apps across media, fintech, and utilities—recently helping revamp a publishing platform using AWS Lambda and JavaScript. A developer/designer hybrid, he pairs strong HTML/CSS, animation and UX sensibilities with practical skills in React/React Native, Express/Node, Polymer and build tooling (SASS, Gulp/Grunt). Notably, he has driven release automation for React Native to boost engineering productivity and modernized legacy JavaScript to ES2015 in past roles. He also brings audio/web multimedia experience—having ported sound engines to Web Audio—and a working knowledge of Japanese, which complements his cross-cultural collaboration on international projects.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Mee Toh SchoolGCE 'A' Levels, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, GCE 'A' Levels, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Further Mathematics at Nanyang Junior CollegeGCE 'O' Levels, GCE 'O' Levels at Tanjong Katong Girls' SchoolBachelor of Computing (Communications and Media), Computing, Bachelor of Computing (Communications and Media), Computing at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (60)
bitrate10
netlify10
testing10
react-dom9
javascript9
compress-images9
dom9
react9
whatsapp8
compression8
gatsbyjs8
audio8
mobile-application8
compressor8
golang8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gopherconsg/2017-website
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
GopherCon Singapore 2017's website.
Contributions:66 commits, 62 PRs, 57 pushes in 4 months
gopherconsingaporegophercon-singaporegolang
geekcampsg/website
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
GeekcampSG website
Contributions:13 reviews, 91 commits, 51 PRs in 5 years 6 months
gatsbyreactnon-profitgeekcampsgnetlify
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