Gavin Ching

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Who is Gavin Ching?

Explorer
Explorer

I have been across the world, seeing many wonders and meeting tons of great people. I've trotted the globe to work, study and explore.

Challenger

I love taking on challenges in life and work. Trekked and worked in many environments where I did not know the language or culture. I adapted and I succeeded.

Challenger
Developer

I love developing and everything nerdy. Most importantly, I love product design so I can satisfy every customers needs :>.

Well, as long as I get them user stories right.

Developer
Weirdo

Love being fun and serious whenever the time comes. If you are happy, I will be happy with you, but if you are sad, I will be humorous to cheer you up :>.

Weirdo
Discoverer

I've discovered many things in my lifetime, doing stuff that no one else has done before. But most importantly and most cheesily, I've discovered more about myself.

Discoverer
Hugger

I am a good hugger. I don't know actually, but that is what the minion told me :>. Do rate my hug if you ever have the chance to hugs.

#hugs4life

Hugger

CV (The Cool Stuff)

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Hi internet person, or the amazing and good looking person I directed to here. Listed are my experiences, hobbies, lifestyles and everything in between.


Also, I am a consultant and can help bring your idea, design, website, application into fruitation!

Wherever you need my skills, I will be there!

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Where

Computer Engineer
University of Toronto
2012-2016
  • Studying the things I love and hanging with the great friends I love.
Computer Engineer on Exchange
National University of Singapore
Aug 2013 - Dec 2013
  • Took on a full course load of five modules while exploring the Singapore culture
  • Created a business plan for a device that turns a handshake into information exchange

Why

  • Tech
    Nerd / Full Stack Developer
    Felix Interactive - Amman, Jordan
    Aug 2014 - April 2015
    • Developing a service to deploy applications to multiple platforms for web and mobile
    • Constructed and developed API using NodeJS that is currently used by mobile and web platforms
    • Configured NoSQL Cassandra cluster to be used by multi platform applications
    • Designed back process to handle dynamic queries, resulting in ability for applications to use dynamic data
    • Generated deployment scripts through Capistrano, easing the team in using the Cassandra clustere
    • Advocated TDD / BDD and made automated scripts through Gulp.js, resulting in faster development
    • Worked on front end web interpreter to handle and draw dynamic data from the application
    Chief Technical Officer
    Apollosoft - Vancouver
    April 2013 - Aug 2013
    • Created the minimal viable product (MVP) of a management web application for university clients
    • Utilized Ruby on Rails to create the web application and API for our mobile application
    • Consulted with clients to create a MVP that fits their needs of digitalizing paper reports
    • Established a team culture with a starting team of four people in person and virtually
  • Marketing
    International Relations Manager
    AIESEC Singapore - Singapore, Singapore
    Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
    • Help establish missing partnerships with other entities involved with AIESEC Singapore
    • Figure out ways to market the current projects in AIESEC Singapore to involved stakeholders
    • Planned a marketing campaign with Glints, a partner of AIESEC Singapore
    • Suggested and created a video advertisement with Glints to further market our partnership and projects
  • Sales
    Corporate Account Manager
    AIESEC Toronto - Toronto, Canada
    Jan 2014 - May 2014
    • Responsible for providing business solutions to companies in the Greater Toronto Area
    • Constructed and utilized CRM to better handle sales internally in the team
    • Planned a better work flow for sales members to be more organized in cold calls and following up
    • Utilized the unused alumni pool to increase potential customers and sales insights
  • Engagement
    Director of Engagement
    AIESEC Toronto - Toronto, Canada
    Jan 2013 - April 2013
    • Improve the lacking relationship between the members of the team
    • Discussed with team about what makes a team and helped foster the trust between the members
    • Aligned interests of the team with the interests of each member, creating common goal
    • Established a general structure of rewarding members for their achievements
    • Engaged with the members on a day to day basis to gain insights of improvement
    Director of Sports
    CESA - Toronto, Canada
    Spet 2012 - April 2013
    • The club lacked in new and creative sports events that exposed different cultures
    • Created relationships with the Engineering Ping Pong Club to cohost a tournament
    • Worked on the board of executives to create and improve on events
    Director of EP Engagement
    AIESEC Toronto - Toronto, Canada
    Sept 2012 - Dec 2012
    • The team lacked in having strong relationships with past alumnus of the exchange program
    • Organized social events for alumnus and members to share their international experiences
    • Constructed a list of past alumnus of the program, allowing for easy contact and re-integration
    • Relationships between members, past alumnus, and externals were created and improved
  • Volunteer
    Farmer Volunteer
    AIESEC - Taiwan
    May 2012 - July 2012
    • Promoted under appreciated organic farming through the use of social media in Taiwan
    • Learnt and assisted farmers in hands on organic farming
    • Developed a website alongside team to give information about organic products
    • A basis structure of social media was implemented, allowing for further growth
    • Shared my own culture from Canada, allowing for others to grow in cultural understanding

How

FrontEnd

HTML5
CSS3
JavaScript
jQuery
Sass
Browserify
Gulp
Karma
NW.js
CasperJS
React

BackEnd

NodeJS
Mocha
RSpec
Capistrano
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Cassandra
Titan
Locust

Frameworks

Rails
Express

NerdTalk

C
C++
Ruby
JavaScript

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How to talk to me

Want to chat, do business or get a coffee? Email me at [email protected] and I will always get back to you.


Of course, the coffee has to be on you.