Becoming an Entrepreneur

Cambridge A Level

Cambridge O Level

Certificate of Completion: PHP Course

- Teaching to a class of ~15 children once a week, on Science topics. 
- Participated in a beach cleaning event. 
- Writing blog posts on animal abuse awareness. Helped in fundraising.

Volunteer

- Guided 3 mentees through their internship search.

Co-op Mentor

Computer Science Co-op (Honours)

Higher Secondary Certificate

High School, Secondary Certificate

• Founded and led the growth of pikapoint.io, a successful online food-ordering website serving over
5000 users daily, hosting 100+ restaurants across Quebec and Ontario.
• Implemented AWS infrastructure solutions, including load balancers and auto-scaling policies,
reducing costs by 250% and improving performance and scalability.
• Managed a team of 6 software developers using Agile methodology, delivering projects efficiently.
• Improved page loading speed by 300% and optimized the software development life cycle through
the use of caching, cron jobs, CI/CD, containerization, and documentation.
• Built and published the PikaPoint Staff app on App Store and Play Store, releasing 30+ updates to
enhance functionality and user experience.
• Established key partnerships and integrations with companies including Doordash, Stripe,
Bambora, Eva Coop, and Talad POS, contributing to the overall success of the business.

Laravel PHP, AWS (EC2, S3, ALB, RDS), MySQL, GCP, Docker, Flutter, Nuxt3, 

Founder & CTO

• Led the LightStreamer (LS) upgrade migration project, which provides real-time pub/sub market
data and content-based transfer
• Onboarded, tested and deployed the latest version (LS7) to upgrade 5000+ active LS instances.
• Developed new LS adapters with backward compatibility (LS6 and LS5) for developers to upgrade
without updating any code, saving developers time and effort.

Java, Jenkins, LightStreamer, Angular, JUnit

Received full-time return offer.

Software Engineer | Backend

• Launched a new Knowledge Management internal site, a centralized platform for Bombardier Employees to publish and access lessons learned and documents.
• Researched the best infrastructure options for organizing and storing documents.
• Created UI elements for seamless navigation. Created a search page with custom filtering for quick document retrieval.

Microsoft SharePoint, HTML, CSS, JS, Bootstrap

Software Developer | Knowledge Management

• Created and launched a functional and user-friendly Leave Management System, eventually adopted by 40+ employees.
• Built a data entry website for a meteorological station to most efficiently input data.

HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, MySQL, pgSQL

Full Stack Developer

• Responsible for the showroom and selling of electronic appliances to hundreds of customers daily
• Responding to the client's calls. Bridged the gap between management, showroom, and delivery department.

Communication and Customer Service skills.

Tech Sales Specialist

• Implemented the Blastmail metrics reporting project, providing visual insights on a huge database
of data collected from sending bulk emails.
• Deployed reporting web pages to production for 100+ MS teams
• Created a metrics REST API with 20+ endpoints from planning to deployment

Frontend: Angular, PrimeNG. Backend: Python Flask. Database: DB2.

Received return offer.

Software Engineer | Full Stack

As innovators of the global energy transition, BrainBox AI’s game-changing HVAC technology leverages AI to make buildings smarter and greener. Working together with our trusted global partners, we empower building owners to reduce their carbon footprints.

Python, FastAPI, Docker, Linux

Nigel Yong

Software Developer @ Brainbox AI