Experienced web application developer
Sydney Area, Australia
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- Owner at Idealian
- Past
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- Senior web developer at Centrebet
- Software programmer at Distillery Software
- Web developer at Intuitiv Australia
- Owner and web developer at Lyricstime.com (Sole Proprietorship)
- Education
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- The Australian National University
- University of New South Wales
- Clementi Secondary School
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Taylor luk’s Summary
" to create beautiful and lovable software for the web, from my mac :) "
Taylor luk’s Specialties:
- User interface design, Usability and UX
- Rapid development, Software architect and data modeling for web apps.
- Polished weapons around the belt, Javascript, Ruby on Rails and good old PHP.
- Object oriented programming to its purest form
- Information ranking, Contextual, relational and behavioral modeling.
- Optimization, deployment of high scale and performant Ruby, LAMP stacks and go hard on virtualized/distributed systems.
Taylor luk’s Experience
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Owner
Idealian
(Computer Software industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Idealian is a software + design company, which create and provides user-friendly, thoughtful and powerful software made for happier customers in areas of ecommerce and open web services.
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Senior web developer
Centrebet
(Public Company; Gambling & Casinos industry)
April 2007 — April 2009 (2 years 1 month)
Designer and developer of Stream content system, A web application build on CakePHP to allow easy content creation and management for all hosted sites. Focused on extendability, customizability and high scale.
- multilingual, geotargeting and filtering to fit company's international operation in a regulated industry.
- Addon architecture to provide API to further extend the system easily in a modular way,
- created H2O template engine (open source port of django template to PHP) to allow beautiful template and content separation. -
Software programmer
Distillery Software
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2006 — December 2006 (1 year)
A software programmer of Distillery Web crawler project team and involved the whole SDLC in a joint program with Australian National University. it is a contextual and relational sensitive web crawler for InterQuest analytics system for intelligence and investigations of criminal, commercial, regulatory and national security threats.
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Web developer
Intuitiv Australia
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 5 months)
Designer and developer of Intuitiv form design tool - an ajax form builder web application features a easy to use, and interactive ajax interface to design, distribute and deploy online and electronic forms. (Inuitiv form is a alternative electronic form format similar to Adobe PDF) It has been shown in events like Australian Government technology world 2006, CBITS Sydney 2006.
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Owner and web developer
Lyricstime.com (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)
February 2002 — November 2005 (3 years 10 months)
Creator of lyricstime.com, one of the largest internet archive of half million english song lyrics with a beautiful user interface loved by millions. It was acquired in 2005
It's also a popular internet property with average 800,000 lyrics request daily. Professionally search engine optimized with over half million lyrics pages indexed and received top ranks in major search engines in lyrics and musical keywords.
Interesting technologies was developed.
- A lightweight PHP MVC framework
- Full text search with contextual and popularity ranking algorithm.
- High scale FreeBSD/PHP/MySQL stack with various caching, optimization and compression techniques for each layer.
Taylor luk’s Education
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The Australian National University
Bachelor of IT , Software development , 2003 — 2006
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University of New South Wales
Foundation school , physical science , 2002 — 2003
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Clementi Secondary School
HKCEE , Science , 1996 — 2001
Additional Information
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Taylor luk’s Interests:
- Anything Web, Software, Ruby and PHP related - distributed/concurrent/event driven system. - Food, Snowboarding, Movie, Soccer, Automobile and Video game
Taylor luk’s Groups:
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On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs -
Attribute Consulting
Taylor luk’s Honors:
- Chief Scientist’s Award for Technical Innovation 2006 by The Distillery’s eminent Chief Scientist, Dr Richard Jones (Distillery web crawler)
- Award of excellence and showcase project of Department of Computer Science and Engineering 2006 (Distillery web crawler)
- Award of excellence in Hong Kong Math Olympic 1999 by Clementi secondary school, HK
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