I am a software developer that specializes in front-end implementation and integration. I am promoter of disciplined software engineering practices, yet ultimately a pragmatist in getting things done. At heart, I am academic when it comes to computer science, linguistics, and cognitive science. Specialties: * Full stack web development * Web application security and protocols * Micro-architectures / Development frameworks * Software methodologies

Senior UI Engineer @ Making the world a safer place From February 2014 to Present (1 year 11 months) Senior UI Engineer @ * Architected & developed highly performant front-end web stack for visualization-heavy platform * Educated team in modern client-side web dev practices (Grunt, Yeoman, SASS, Knockout, RequireJS) * Extended capabilities of the UI team to develop fault tolerant, HA web services (node.js, express, Redis, AWS, Mocha, PhantomJS, CAS) * Provided QA with automation tools to perform regression and acceptance tests * Engaged directly with open source contributors to provide solutions for technical blockers From October 2012 to February 2014 (1 year 5 months) Engineer @ * Supported Adobe and Comcast's development efforts in streaming media with DRM onto Samsung TV Platform as Technical Manager (AMS, Adobe Access, OSMF) * Led in-house R&D voice recognition project while adopting BDD test methodology and continuous integration stack (mocha, chai, sinon, TeamCity, YouTrack, node.js) * Advised on potential application and service-level security flaws with TV platform * Developed tools and testing harnesses with various cutting-edge technologies (node.js, web sockets, actionscript, selenium) From December 2011 to October 2012 (11 months) Engineering Contractor @ * Developed rich-media web survey and moderator application in 100 hrs to display and collect market research data. * Integrated with Vovici and Lithium custom authentication and content web services * Created prototype for online web conferencing using Adobe LCCS components From October 2010 to December 2011 (1 year 3 months) Engineering Contractor @ * Developed multimedia website presence for international DJ with aesthetic emphasis using JQuery and CSS * Integrated content with Wordpress for ease of client content administration From May 2011 to August 2011 (4 months) Engineering Contractor @ * Developed Drupal 7 modules integrating with Amazon S3 API and Java SOAP service in the back, exposing capabilities to mobile application prototype * Implemented various aspects of SEO best practices in harmony with AJAX-driven content * Prototyped front-end for Django website using JQuery, CSS3 with consideration on cross-browser compatibility and AJAX cross-domain/same-origin policies * Scripted linux build snippets for system backup and deployment through Jenkins From April 2011 to August 2011 (5 months) Engineering Contractor @ * Rapidly developed service-driven mobile android prototype using AIR 2.5, Flex 4.5, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Catalyst in 140 hours * Worked with development team to create the next gen survey application to grab marketing metrics using Flex 4, Maven + Jenkins build stack, and Amazon Web Services (200 hrs) * Supported automated functional testing efforts built with FlexMonkey + Selenium From February 2011 to April 2011 (3 months) Software Engineer @ * Built web platform of 10 active projects that have 10,000+ military and 1000’s of foreign users worldwide as Tech Lead * Developed and architected highly extensible desktop portal with Adobe AIR 2.0 + Swiz (IoC microarchitecture) that downloads and feeds modular content for an existing desktop platform * Main developer of the web platform which utilizes and integrates a number of open source frameworks and libraries (Flex 4, FlexUnit4, ASMock, PureMVC, Spring Actionscript, Prototype, FlexSpy, ASCoreLib, Julius, BlazeDS) * Designed and advised on interdisciplinary workflow needs – content, design, QA, production, and management From June 2009 to March 2011 (1 year 10 months) Engineering Contractor @ * Rapidly developed simulation software for next-generation device using Adobe AIR within 250 hours * Met extremely pixel-tight UI, UX, and system design requirements * Quickly prototyped new, intended features with the simulator to allow user feedback and data collection * Actively engaged with clients to resolve unaddressed areas of the design From March 2010 to September 2010 (7 months) Engineering Contractor @ * Developed comprehensive application that allowed creating, editing, saving, and printing of over 30 templates with 3 proprietary fonts within 100 hours * Ported C++ libraries used to ligate proprietary fonts to Actionscript with Adobe Alchemy * Created automated test suite to generate over 5,000 unit tests to ensure quality of the port using FlexUnit4. From February 2010 to September 2010 (8 months) Intern @ * Developed Flex-based interactive activities to teach Chinese * Created tools in Java and Javascript for the team of content developers * Maintained and developed new features for a Flex-based authoring tool that feeds into a Java backend * Developed much of the front-end code for next-generation web platform built with PureMVC and Spring Actionscript From September 2007 to June 2009 (1 year 10 months) Systems and Programming Specialist @ * Developed PHP parser with AJAX that fed 10,000+ printing transactions into a campus mainframe * Created external website using TikiWiki CMS (PHP + CSS + Smarty) and filed tickets back to open source community. * Built the intranet for a team of 90+ staff members with 10+ customized features to TikiWiki From September 2006 to June 2009 (2 years 10 months)

BS, Cognitive Science @ University of California, Los Angeles From 2005 to 2009 Chinese @ Beijing Normal University From 2008 to 2008 Duncan Wong is skilled in: jQuery, JavaScript, Java, CSS, PHP, Node.js, Linux, AJAX, User Experience, Web Design, ActionScript, Android, User Interface, SQL, Flex