Dick Tang

Technical Director (Platform / DevOps) @ HK01

About

- a technical leader, with solid skills on both software development and technical operation - 10+ years experience in cloud technology - hands on on web & mobile development, AI / machine learning and Web3 technology also - a cloud technology expert, who delivered talks and sharing in industry forums like AWS Summit HK, AWS Enterprise Forum, Openstack Summit, PyCon HK, HKOSCon. - an advocator of open source software (OSS) and a contributor to open source software projects (including php-memcached and Mozilla SOPS)

Country

City

Hong Kong SAR

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Web3, DevOps, FinOps, Terraform, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Distributed Systems, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Continuous Integration, Programming, Algorithms, Shell Scripting, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Scalability, Big Data, Agile Methodologies, Software Development

Experience

Technical Director (Platform / DevOps)

HK01

2017 - 2026 · 9 yrs

Hong Kong

∙ Led a cross-functional team of 25+ members across 3 offices, enhancing collaboration, delivery quality and efficiency. ∙ Defined and evangelized the DevOps vision: CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and SRE principles. ∙ Modernized engineering practices / standards to improve scalability, reliability, and delivery across a growing media and e-commerce platform. ∙ Delivered a suite of HK01 digital products, in collaboration with product engineering, including hk01.com, HK01 Mobile App, 01商城 (e-shopping mall), 01心意 (charity crowdraising) and 01空間 (event ticketing). As was the team lead of Data Engineering team: ∙ Grew team from 1 to 8 members (data scientists, engineers, analysts) in 8 months. ∙ Built a solid foundation for analytics data pipeline based on AWS Kinesis and serverless framework. ∙ Delivered AI products including personalized news feed in App and tagging recommendation in CMS.

Software Engineer (Service Engineering)

9GAG

2014 - 2017 · 3 yrs

Hong Kong SAR

∙ Held dual roles as Software Engineer and SRE/DevOps Engineer at 9GAG. ∙ Designed and built highly-scalable, fault-tolerant SOA systems using cutting-edge technologies. ∙ Collaborated with a fast-moving agile team to define, design and ship new features. ∙ Ensured high availability and reliability for 9GAG.com, one of the Alexa top-200 websites. Key achievements ∙ Built key backend components (eg. news feed, virtual currency) for new product features. ∙ Achieved high availability (99.95+% uptime) for 9gag.com in 2016. ∙ Optimized backend systems, reducing latency over 50% in 2 years while new features launched. ∙ Saved over 40% infrastructure cost after the one-year continuous work of a 4-people team. ∙ Led migration to continuous delivery and established real-time monitoring with the ELK stack. ∙ Migrated analytics data pipeline to a 100+ node Kubernetes cluster in 3 months with a 3-person team.

Software Engineer

Harmonic

2013 - 2014 · 1 yr

Hong Kong SAR

∙ Focused on R&D of video-on-demand (VoD) and over-the-top (OTT) technology. ∙ Collaborated with teams from local and US and delivered 4 ProMedia transcoding product releases.

Graduate Research Assistant

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2011 - 2013 · 2 yrs

Hong Kong SAR

∙ Focused on computer system research, mainly virtual machine storage and data deduplication. ∙ Built MyCloudLab, a private cloud platform for teaching and research