Welcome aaron-tay.github.io

I’m a full-stack software engineer with experiences throughout the entire web stack.

About me

I enjoy drinking tea (Houji-cha is my favourite) and eating Japanese food (especially Tonkatsu!). Occasionally I indulge in saké, but can’t have too much as it makes me go red (blush) :P

What I know

I have experience working with early-stage start-ups from pre-conception to product ideation into early stage maturity. It’s been a fantastic journey learning about the delicate balances amongst engineering, product, marketing and sales. The primary industry has been food and drinks and the service industry.

There’s been plenty of opportunities for me over the years to work with numerous technologies along the web stack going as deep down as database schema and queries, through to RESTful APIs and server fleet deployment and management using automated builds and deployment, cross platform client-side front end applications up to business level user tracking and analytics.

Where I’ve been

• DMM.com Group - E-commerce internet business and service provider (Japanese)
• Hey You - Discover nearby cafes, order and pay for your food or drink and collect loyalty rewards.
• BeatTheQ (now heyyou.com.au) - Pre-order and pay for your coffee online.
• Posse (now heyyou.com.au) - Discover nearby areas and organise your favourite places.
• Altium - PCB design software

Random stuff I’ve made

• Data Generator UI to generate random data
• Photo Finder A simple ImgurAPI experiment to find photos.
• HackerNewsClone A watered down implementation of y-combinator’s Hacker News.
• Camera A basic example of using HTML5 for camera streaming.
• Social.UI A template for a hypothetical social network website.

Keywords (cos these attract people and SEO bots) - but also stuff I know ;)

NodeJS, Javascript, ES6, AngularJS, React, VueJS, MDL, jQuery, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, SASS, LESS, AWS, Objective-C, Java, PHP, Jenkins, BuildKite, mySQL, Redis, Firebase, Fabric.io, NewRelic, PagerDuty, StatusPage, Atlassian, BitBucket, GitHub, G-Suite, SketchApp, REST, API, PlayFramework, POS, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Mixpanel, Google Analytics,

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