John Goh
Rengwu
I
am
a
software
engineer
from
Malaysia.
With
a
strong
background
in
front-end
web
development,
I'm
passionate
about
bringing
ideas
to
life
by
crafting
thoughtful,
engaging,
and
accessible
experiences.
I
also
just
love
making
things
work
in
general.
AWARDS
- MDEC's The Grand Challenge KL 2018 Hackathon Grand Champion
- F-Secure Inter-Varsity Cyber Security Competition 2019 Semi-Finalist
- Highest-scoring candidate in Advanced Programming (FIT3140) during Semester 1, 2018 for all Monash University campuses worldwide.
Projects
cv-gen (2023)
A customizable, print-friendly, yet simple resume-builder and microsite that lets you keep your own data. Built with Svelte, Typescript, and Handlebars.js. My resume site was built with this!
EXPERIENCE
Flanksource
Front-end Engineer, UI/UX Designer
Aug 2021 to Aug 2022 - Johannesburg, South Africa
- Design and FE development for Canary Checker, a Kubernetes multi-tenant synthetic monitoring system. Also contributed tooling, architectural and component design for various projects with React.
- Designed high-fidelity prototypes and conducted heuristic evaluations on new features.
TDCX
Front-end Engineer
Jun 2020 to Jul 2021 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Developed `Flash Coach`, a virtual coaching and training platform for employees.
- Web-related maintenance and enhancements; including FE implementation for our company website and automating CMS backups and migrations.
Nixel Technologies
Software Engineer & Designer
Feb 2019 to May 2020 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Developed and maintained `TanTanNews`, a high-traffic news portal, and `MOPress`, an open-source journalism platform.
- Managed and mentored a team of intern developers.
- Designed and developed a variety of web projects mostly with Vue 2 and React.
Accendo Technologies
Intern Software Developer
Dec 2017 to Mar 2018 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- FE development with React in an Agile team. Responsible for a print-friendly report generation feature.
- Developed a prototype website using Vue for a talent management system by IJM Malaysia.
EDUCATION
Monash University
Bachelor of Computer Science
Feb 2016 to May 2019
- Majored in Advanced Algorithms
- Final year project - Automatic Detection of Biomedical Compound Figures with LBP, Shape Features, and OCR with fusion techniques using SVM & KNN Classifiers
- Content-based Image Retrieval with MATLAB - an Image Processing project.
