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Technologist. Open source web turned mobile software engineer. Electronic music fanatic. From Hong Kong currently living in Cambridge, MA.

Verivo Software 2010 – Present
Software Engineer (Mobile)
SimpleTuition 2008 – 2010
Sr. Software Engineer (Web)
Nuance Communications 2007 – 2008
Demo Coordinator / Application Developer (Speech)
Tufts University 2004 – 2008
B.Sc. Electrical Engineering

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» TubePlayer Update - Themes! (Aug 15, 2011)
// projects
» Hello, 2011 (Feb 02, 2011)
// blackberry // projects // investment // hackathon
» Last Day 2010 (Dec 31, 2010)
» 1st Week @ Pyxis (Dec 05, 2010)
// mobile // career
» BillboardTube.fm (Nov 25, 2010)
// projects
» Image Color Swatch (Nov 25, 2010)
// utility // projects
» New Chapter (Oct 25, 2010)
// career
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APIs/SDKs I enjoy working with

Google AppEngine SDK (Python)
YouTube Google GDATA
EchoNest Music Engine
Blackberry Java SDK 5/6/7
Android SDK 2.1+
LastFM Music Database
Beatport Electronic Music Database
Discogs Comprehensive music discographies
Facebook SDK, FQL, Open Graph protocol.
Billboard Charts
Flickr Photo Search
Facebook FBJS/FBML/FQL
Google Analytics
FireFox Extensions / XUL
jQuery Javascript library
iPhone/iOS SDK
Lead passing: Mortech, Leads 360
Zillow Home Value Lookup
Yahoo Music
Google Maps
mBlox mobile messaging
Nuance Open Speech Dialog Modules
Geneysis VoiceGenie
Asterisk / Trixbox Telephony Platform

Some of my side projects

Mobile
Web
jQuery Plugins
Utils

A State Of Trance Unofficial (Android)
October 23^rd 2011

Image To Base64
February 21^st 2011
Image Color Swatch
November 4^th 2010
CSS Inline Transformer Simplified
Apr 9^th 2010
CSS Inline Transformer
March 31^st 2010

jQTubeUtil - YouTube Search Utility
Sept 10^th 2010
TubePlayer - YouTube Player Plugin
July 24^th 2010
Radmenu - jQuery Radial/Pie Menu Plugin
June 20^th 2010

» BillboardTube.fm October 29^th 2010

APIs:
YouTube + Billboard

Plugins:
jQTubeUtil + TubePlayer
» LikeBook.fm October 17^th 2010

APIs:
YouTube + Facebook + EchoNest

Plugins:
jQTubeUtil + TubePlayer
» TubeLoop.com August 10^th 2010

APIs:
YouTube + Facebook + LastFM

Plugins:
jQTubeUtil + TubePlayer
» YouTube QuickPlay July 15^th 2010

APIs:
YouTube

Plugins:
jQTubeUtil + TubePlayer + Radmenu
» Flickr Grader Sept 27^th 2010

APIs:
Flickr

Curious about what I use?

Web dev - HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Google AppEngine
Java JDK 1.3 (RIM J2ME), 1.5+
Python 2+
Bash 4+
Apache 2 (HTTP server)
Apache Tomcat (Servlet engine)
Apache Velocity (Templating engine)
Apache Ant (Build tool)
MySQL 5 + SQL Server (Database)
Hibernate ORM (Database wrapper)
Log4j (Log utility)
Apache Lucene (Text Search)
JUnit (Unit Testing)
jQuery API (JS framework)
Voice dev - VXML (Voice), GRXML (Grammar)
Subversion, Git/GitHub/AccuRev
Eclipse, XCode, TextMate (IDE)
Blackberry JDE v5.0 , 6.0, 7.0
Android Eclipse ADT Plugin
Balsamiq wireframing tool
Defect tracking tools DevTrack, FogBugz
Cygwin
Ubuntu 9.10+, Mac OS X 10.5+, Windows 7

Some of my favourite links

Websites
Future Tech
Inspirational

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