voyager2718

Senior Software Engineer / Product Engineer

Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead with 9+ years of experience delivering scalable systems across Web3, Fintech, and Gaming. Specialized in TypeScript, Go, and AWS serverless architecture. Demonstrated mastery in real-time engine optimization, notably engineering decoupled, state-driven architectures that maintain a Zero-GC footprint via pre-allocated spatial queries and boxing-free data pipelines.


Yearly salary: $80,000

Hourly rate: $0

Nationality: 🇨🇦 Canada

Residency: 🇨🇦 Canada


Experience

Technical Lead
Water Wood Games
2025 - 2026
Owned end-to-end design and engineering for Electoral Empire, a turn-based political simulation featuring interconnected systems (economy, propaganda, elections, intelligence, diplomacy) and negotiation/card mechanics. Integrated local LLMs leveraging Ollama and Qwen models to generate dynamic situational descriptions, seamlessly translating complex deterministic game states into immersive, context-aware player narratives. Designed the overall architecture and shipped core systems using Electron + React + TypeScript, prioritising maintainability, predictable behaviour, and fast iteration. Built a deterministic simulation pipeline (fixed round execution order, reproducible RNG, modular systems) to enable rapid feature expansion and reliable balance iteration. Achieved significant commercial traction prior to launch, securing over 2,500 organic Steam wishlists and successfully negotiating a definitive publishing deal with an upfront advance payment.
Senior Frontend Developer
BitTorrent, Inc
2023 - 2023
Led delivery for an internal Ad mediation platform, building the application from scratch and defining its initial structure. Owned development and ongoing maintenance of experiment dashboards for an A/B testing platform. Maintained and enhanced official BitTorrent/uTorrent websites; collaborated with PMs and US-based engineers in English and documented requirements and decisions. Analyzed WebTorrent source code and documented integration findings for uTorrent Lite.
Frontend Lead
CertiK
2023 - 2024
Led delivery across multiple Web3 products, owning UI architecture, quality, and cross-team alignment with backend and security stakeholders. Shipped Shentu Staking Dashboard (Next.js) end-to-end, covering core flows, performance improvements, error handling and production readiness. Led development of DeepWallet browser extension, focusing on wallet integration, security-sensitive UX, and release stability. Built and maintained the OpenBounty website from scratch with SEO best practices and responsive design; improved the acquisition funnel through iterative performance and UX work. Partnered with Go backend engineers on blockchain data services and APIs using SQS, SNS, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway, ensuring integration reliability and data correctness.
Full Stack Engineer
EPAM Systems
2021 - 2022
Architected and implemented a robust data synchronization framework leveraging the Saga Pattern to ensure eventual consistency across multi-region asset management systems. Engineered automated compensating transaction logic (Undo/Redo) to handle synchronization failures, maintaining data integrity for high-stakes financial operations. Built a mission-critical asset management system for HK Land using Golang and React, managing complex multi-region Azure infrastructure including Azure Bastion, Blob Storage, Application Gateway, and Azure SQL Database (MS SQL). Delivered high-performance components for a forex and options trading system (DBS Bank) using Spring Cloud and React, significantly improving system stability and response latency.
Technical Lead
Zulong E-Commerce
2018 - 2021
Led a 3-person engineering team to build a community group-buying platform; scaled operations to 12 neighbourhoods and ~460 daily orders at peak. Delivered customer-facing WeChat Mini Program features (shopping, referrals/red envelopes, fulfilment workflows) and an admin system using Node.js + React. Coordinated with community leaders and property management to align product workflows with real-world logistics operations.
Test and Development Engineer
Oracle China
2016 - 2018
Built automated black-box testing tools for Oracle GI/RAC using Python + OpenCV and UI automation (PyUserInput). Developed an Oracle database configuration generator in C++, streamlining setup workflows and improving reliability.

Skills

aws
golang
mongo
nextjs
node
react
sql
full-stack
english
chinese-mandarin
french