Teng Siong Ong
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Teng Siong is a freelance developer and entrepreneur who has helped build applications with millions of users. He started a company after his freshman year, which was later acquired. He has extensive experience working with early stage startups and helping them to build quick prototypes for market validation.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacVim, Git, MacOS
The most amazing...
...thing I've created was a company my freshman year at college, which I then sold 6 months later.
Work Experience
Co-founder
Apartment 7, Inc.
- Created 4 early prototypes for market validation.
- Created an online video chat feature that supports realtime user tracking.
- Created a web app that scaled up to 80k+ profiles in less than 1 month.
- Built a payment system to start charging users.
- Built a matching algorithm to suggest right matches to users.
Co-founder
Serenpidity Machine, Inc.
- Created the client-side JavaScript-based web application with Backbone.
- Iterated on the back-end API.
- Iterated on the iPhone client.
- Created the internal metrics dashboard.
- Added metrics tracking for both the iPhone app and the web app.
Software Contractor
FLOChip, Inc.
- Developed a full-scale eCommerce prototype.
- Developed a custom content management system.
- Developed a music streaming service: Chinese Pandora.
- Managed the launch of a website from a public company.
- Managed the redesign of a client project.
Mobile Developer
Loopt, Inc.
- Iterated on the iPhone app that had millions of users.
- Built the first paid-only feature into the iPhone app.
- Added metrics tracking for the iPhone application.
- Iterated on the chat features on the iPhone app.
- Worked on the product to get feedback from the users.
Co-founder
GraffitiGeo, Inc.
- Built the early iPhone prototype that got us into Y Combinator.
- Created a real-time heatmap showing users who checked in places.
- Developed the back-end API for the mobile clients that supported up to 50k users.
- Programmed the internal metrics dashboard.
- Iterated on the design for the website and the iPhone client.
Experience
Jquery.feedback
https://github.com/siong1987/jquery.feedbackBackbone.Routes
https://github.com/siong1987/backbone_routesPyCloud
Skills
Languages
Ruby, JavaScript, Objective-C, Java, SQL, Python
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR), React Native
Libraries/APIs
Backbone.js, Facebook API, Stripe, jQuery, React, Node.js
Platforms
Android, iOS, MacOS
Storage
Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Other
eCommerce
Tools
MacVim, Git
Paradigms
Agile Software Development
Education
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
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