Victor Yap

Key Technologies: AWS, Python, Go, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, JavaScript, Gitlab, Gitlab CI/CD, Shell Scripts, and more…

• Build out software solutions for the Mission Operation Center, Web Services for End-Users (Customers/Clients) in delivering next-generation, new solutions in the field of Position-Navigation-Timing (PNT) services on a global basis.

• Architecturing of net-new web services platforms comprising a multitude of speciality modules working in concert, in both back-end and front-end environments, with real-time, highly scalable, resilient and robust requirements.

• Building atop and extending various open-source solutions and various commercial/common-off-the-shelf solutions.

Key Technologies: Microsoft Azure, AWS, C#, .NET, Python, JavaScript, NodeJS, Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Shell Scripts, Redis, Confluence, Jira, Docker, PowerShell, Heroku

• Key member of Technology Strategy team (comprised of 5 Architects) responsible for establishing and developing the long-term strategic vision for the SaaS enterprise technology and provided subsequent oversight of the strategy implementation orchestrated through ~100 Software Developers, DevOps,Testers, Security (under CISO’s leadership), and Product Managers

• Contributions to technology selection and utilization allowed the firm to rapidly raise the maturity of the technology and proactively identify opportunities to build technology enablers resulting in accelerating the firm’s achievement of its growth targets

• Acted as a primary point of contact coordinating and collaborating with multidisciplinary cross-functional teams specializing in the management of specific domains in the microservices architecture; effective troubleshooting, analysis, and guidance resulted in ensuring the optimization of strategy implementation in a high-growth, Agile environment

Key Technologies: AWS, C#, .NET, Python, JavaScript, Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Shell Scripts, Confluence, Jira, HTML, CSS, Docker

• Managed a team of software development specialists in producing a highly complex, cloud-based web-service that acted as a central hub for all things IoT, particularly with heavy-industries equipment (mining, forestry, etc.)

• Introduced effective Agile methodology practices and project management tools to provide structure and order to the incumbent team of developers, testers, and product managers

• Crafted job requirements and created a new HR pipeline for hiring software development talent to expand the team and accelerate the development of features

• Collaborated with the designer to clarify use-case scenarios and product features to be developed, steering away from concepts that were too complex to effectively implement within the context of "fast-paced" business development

• Guided and mentored developers regarding architecture, best practices, software design patterns, testing strategies, maintainability, scalability, etc.

Key Technologies & Skills: Windows System Administration, Linux System Administration, Jenkins, Git, Python, C, C++, C#, R, Real-time Operating Systems (Linux), Satellite Clocks, Keysight Instruments (Demodulators, Oscilloscope, Signal Generator), Groovy, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Docker, XTCE, XML

• Architectured, designed, and implemented end-to-end testing, CI/CD, and DevOps of real-time space mission products and systems

• Resolved highly challenging technical problems including diagnosing and resolving faulty PCI-E based SATA interface cards by designing a redundancy solution and identifying/ mitigating faulty critical server hardware by initiating a backup of data to corporate IT infrastructure; actions taken enabled the recovery of the project for software maintenance requests 3 years after delivery to the customer, ultimately saving millions of dollars in development costs

• Diagnosed complex software logic faults, including race conditions, to ensure that the products worked without fault, and provided support to development teams

• Operated and optimized the control of specialized lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, signal generators, demodulators, and satellite-based clocks to verify and validate real-time signal processing systems

• Created new interoperability tools based on the XTCE standard employed by international space agencies; developed new interoperability tools based on the XTCE standard employed by international space agencies

Key Technologies + Skills: AWS, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Docker, Confluence, Jira, Stripe

• Automated labourious data analytics processes used for accounting subsystems of ecommerce platform

• Implemented and refined designs on various web mini games

• Development of Star Citizen's web presence

Key Technologies: Azure, C#, .NET, Python, JavaScript, Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Shell Scripts, Confluence, Jira, HTML, CSS, Docker

• Overhauled the main corporate website, introducing responsive desktop/mobile design, 1000x faster search engine, 1000x faster content publishing pipeline, and a plethora of convenient hooks that the marketing team could leverage in a largely no-code fashion

• Developed numerous responsive templates that had dynamic blocks which enabled the marketing team to create landing pages with a variety of different layouts within the Marketo (no-code) platform

Key Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript

• Taught the fundamentals of web development to design-oriented class

Key Technologies: AWS, Python, JavaScript, Git, GitLab, Shell Scripts, Confluence, Jira, HTML, CSS, Docker, SVN, Moneris, PayPal, Django

• Provided fast-paced e-commerce website development, troubleshooting, and evolution; interfaced with multiple data sources including SQL servers and IBM/DB2 servers

• Introduced a migration from SVN to Git, coupled with a CICD pipeline that significantly reduced the time and manpower taken to as little as 1-2 minutes by any developer, in contrast to 1-2 days involving the entire development team and the system administrator

• Built deep-monitoring and analytics for key data ETL pipelines enabling rapid and focused fixes to be made; the system was inherited with a success rate of ~70% and was brought up to a stable success rate of 95% on average (achieving 100% most days)

Key Technologies: Flash/ActionScript/Flex, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, Proxmox, PayPal, Moneris, Typo3, WordPress

• Supported a multitude of web-hosting clients and their websites using a wide array of tools and technologies

• Optimized multi-million record MySQL databases and queries, 100000x fold improvement in performance

• Designed and implemented various highly interactive, high traffic web solutions

• Integrated credit-card payment solutions in e-commerce platforms

Key Technologies: Flash/ActionScript/Flex, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL

• Designed and implemented, from scratch, an isometric game engine (quasi-3D within 2D) for the 'Spliced' online game

• Designed and implemented backend data storage solutions

• Development of gaming platforms for major intellectual-property publishers such as YTV, PBS, CBS, Orange, etc

Key Technologies: Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, X-BOX, PC

• Rigorously tested a wide variety of games on modern gaming platforms

• Entrusted with secrecy on a multiple AAA-titles

Key Technologies: macOS, Windows, Linux, C++, PHP, Flash, C#, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

• Maintenance of Computer Labs

• Tutorials and Mentorship for Students in Computer Science and Design Arts Topics

Change requests successfully proposed, accepted & merged

• Noto Fonts - Added missing # symbols for HTML-entities in Devanagari script

• XFCE - Added display 'output' numerical/identifier prefix

• CakePHP - Postgres buildColumn() support for array-type columns

Montreal's annual anime convention

• Maintained long-term vision and planning capacity for the enterprise

• Selection of the Chairperson to head the annual organization of the Otakuthon convention

• Review, revise, and approve the detailed budgets that the annual Convention Committee proposes

• Handle special contracts and agreements

• Review feedback annually and engage in continuous improvement to the organization and the convention

• Governance of high-level policies and procedures

• Analyze special requests and resolve conflicts that arise from lower-levels of the organization

• Secretary Role - Ensured orderly record-keeping internally and with government offices

• Signing Officer Role - Authorization to approve/execute payments of expenses

• Treasury Officer Role - Support the Treasury Office

• Liaison Officer Role - Ensure close collaboration with our host venue, addressing any incidents that may arise

• First-Aider - Provide first-aid response to any medical emergencies that arise

• Webmaster - Development and maintenance of the website

• Artists' Area Directorship - Managed the registration, payments, logistics and hosting of artists within the Artists' Area

• Halloween Party Webmaster - Managed the registration, payments, and website of the annual Halloween Party

• Due to very solid organization foundations, Otakuthon has survived through 2 years of not being hosted in-person due to the COVID-19 pandemic

• In 2023, Otakuthon achieved a major milestone: hosting 35,309 paid attendees, becoming the largest annual anime convention in Canada

A centerpiece of cultural exchanging in Montreal, having made connections to pop culture from Japan since the 1990's in the era of VHS tapes!

• Maintained the website, revamping it in 2007

• Regularly planned, promoted and hosted free, recurring cultural events for the community

• Maintained memberships

• Produced marketing campaign materials

• Served as a librarian for the club's lending library (VHS, CDs, DVDs, Manga, Books, etc)

• Liaison with the Concordia Student Union

Downtown Montreal's CEGEP-level anime and comic books club

• Regularly planned, promoted and hosted free, recurring cultural events for the community

• Produced annual comic-book/manga anthology

• Produced marketing campaign materials

• Liaison with the Dawson Student Union

The computer club at the local, top-ranking high school

• Moderation of discussion forums

• Maintenance of installed services

• General geekery

Master of Engineering

Courses

• SOEN 6431 - SOFT. COMP.& MAINTENANCE

• SOEN 6471 - ADV D SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES

• SOEN 6481 - SYSTEMS REQMT. SPECIFICATION

• SOEN 6501 - PROGRAMMING COMPETENCY TEST

• COMP 6321 - MACHINE LEARNING

• SOEN 6461 - SOFTWARE DSGN METHODOLOGIES

• SOEN 6441 - ADV. PROG. PRACTICES

• SOEN 6751 - HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACE DES

• COMP 6961 - GRADUATE SEMINAR-COMP.SC.

• COMP 6411 - COMPARAT.STUDY/PROGRAM.LANG.

• SOEN 6011 - Software Engineering Processes

• SOEN 6491 - SOFTWARE REFACTORING

• SOEN 7481 - SOFTWARE VERIFICAT N/TESTING

Bachelor of Computer Science

Courses

• COMP 228 - SYSTEM HARDWARE

• COMP 238 - MATH.FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE I

• DFAR 251 - WEB IN SITES

• FMAN 398H - SPECIAL TOPICS IN FMAN (3-D ANIMATION/MEDIA I)

• FFAR 250 - VISUAL/PERF.ARTS IN CANADA

• ARTH 353 - TECHNOLOGY & CONTEMP. ART

• COMP 248 - INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING

• DFAR 252 - IMAGE/SOUND/DIMENSION

• FMAN 398I - SPECIAL TOPICS IN FMAN (3-D ANIMATION/MEDIA II)

• COMP 239 - MATH.FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE II

• ENCS 282 - TECH. WRITING + COMMUNIC N.

• COMP 229 - SYSTEM SOFTWARE

• COMP 249 - PROGRAMMING METHODOLOGY

• DFAR 351 - NETWORKS AND NAVIGATION

• DFAR 360 - TANGIBLE MEDIA/PHYSICAL COMP

• DRAW 200 - DRAWING I

• EART 300 - INTER.STUDIO/ELECTRONIC ARTS

• COMP 335 - INTRO/THEORETICAL COMP SCI

• COMP 352 - DATA STRUCTURES + ALGORITHMS

• DFAR 398C - SPECIAL TOPICS IN DFAR (ADV.LANGUAGES PROGRAMM.)

• CART 451 - INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA

• COMP 346 - OPERATING SYSTEMS

• COMP 353 - DATABASES

• COMP 473 - PATTERN RECOGNITION

• CART 452 - TRI-MEDIA PRODUCTIONS

• COMP 354 - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING I

• COMP 442 - COMPILER DESIGN

• COMP 471 - COMPUTER GRAPHICS

• CART 498C - TOPICS IN COMPUTATION ARTS (ALCHEMY/REAL-TIME MEDIA)

• COMP 471 - COMPUTER GRAPHICS

• CART 454D - TOPICS IN MULTIMEDIA THEORY (ALCHEMICAL/TOPO.MEDIA)

• COMP 353 - DATABASES

• COMP 446 - DESIGNING PROG. WITH C++

Diploma of Collegiate Studies

Bilingual Immersion + Advanced Mathematics

Otakuthon 2006 was awarded recognition as the 'Best Event'

Achieved top score for the Gauss Mathematics Contest