👋 I’m Thomas Lui

I'm a senior software engineer with an interest in FinTech. I have 6 years of professional software engineering experience and 3 years of professional web3 experience including building a layer 2 solution on Ethereum mainnet for spending crypto at POS and teaching solidity at a college. Learn more about me.

💼 Timeline

• - Built and maintained the mobile/desktop application and backend services for Canada’s top Crypto/Stocks trading platform which handles millions $ worth of daily trades and on-chain transfers

• - Acted as the crypto domain expert and shipped every major features including Crypto Trading, Crypto Transfer, internal on-chain crypto operation and gas fee management toolings

• - Leveraged technologies such as React, React Native, NodeJS, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails

• - Taught full stack/decentralized applications development using React/Redux, web3.js and Solidity

• - Designed and implemented lesson plans for a 36-hour face-to-face course that is part of the first and only technical blockchain certificate delivered by a Canadian college

• - Led a team of three engineers to design, implement and launch an instant tap-to-pay solution for spending cryptocurrency at POS terminals

• - Delivered production ready Solidity smart contracts on Ethereum mainnet and worked with third party auditor to identify security vulnerabilities

• - Improved the transaction settlement time from 30+ seconds to real time and reduce the transaction fee by 90% through redesigning the infrastructure

• - Built layer 2 scaling solution to enable instant and scalable ERC20/ETH payments on Ethereum

• - Leveraged technologies such as Web3.js, Solidity, React, NodeJS

• - Worked with companies like Athos, Bloomberg, NBA, CIBC, American Auto Association, Red Tag; leveraged new technologies such as ReactJS, React Native, NodeJS, Redux, Alexa, GraphQL, tvOS

• - Led a team of three engineers to develop an Alexa application from scratch using NodeJS, AWS Lambda and DynamoDB for a Fortune 500 e-commerce company

• - Delivered a production athlete management web app for Athos using React and Redux

• - Mentored engineers on best practices for React/React Native/Redux

• - Worked in an agile team and communicated with clients to better understand project requirements

• - Created an e-commerce website to fulfill the increasing demand in my fitness products; generated over $30,000 USD in sales with 100% positive feedback

• - Communicated with customers and analyzed feedback in order to identify areas of betterment, resulting in satisfied customers and achieving “Top-rated seller and PowerSeller” status on eBay

🛠️ Projects & 🏆 Awards

📖 Education