The Tech Guy at Tech in Asia
After four years and seven months, I've left migme, formerly mig33, where I joined as a Web Engineer and rose to Senior Web Engineer. I've now taken up a new role as The Tech Guy at Tech in Asia.
mig33
The mig33 years, from developer launches and hiring to company milestones.
Apple MacBook Pro Retina 13″ (Late 2013)
My work laptop had been a MacBook Air 13-inch (Mid 2011), now a three-year-old model. Under migme's policy of replacing laptops every three years, they bought me a 13-inch MacBook Pro Retina (Late 2013), with a 2.4GHz dual-core i5.
Apple MacBook Air 13 Inch (Mid 2011)
When I joined mig33 on 1st February 2010, I received a MacBook Pro 15-inch (Mid 2009) with a 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo and 4GB RAM. Over the years it slowed as apps and the OS grew more demanding.
mig33 Kopnas 2012
Today marks two full years at mig33 and the start of my third. I've just returned from mig33 Kopnas 2012 in Jakarta, the yearly gathering of mig33 users in Indonesia. Kopnas, from 'Kopi' and 'Nasional', means a national coffee gathering.
mig33 Developer Program Launch
mig33 is about to unveil a new Developer Program, inviting developers and brands to build social games and apps for its 50 million registered users and thriving virtual economy. It's a joint initiative with Japan's GREE and China's Tencent QQ.
mig33 Is Hiring Webmaster
mig33's creative team is hiring a full-time Webmaster reporting to the Director of Content and Creative Factory. They want at least five years of production web-development experience, plus knowledge of web design, GUI, mobile UI and information architecture.
1 Year Later At mig33
It's been one year since I started at mig33, my first job, and I'm still learning loads every day. Beyond coding we research new technology trends and how to deploy them to production, picking up Hadoop, Redis, Memcached and RabbitMQ.
mig33 Android Client
I've spent the past few months building the mig33 Android client with colleagues, tasked with styling the native UI in Java and XML plus the HTML5/CSS3 webpages. It's tedious, but the first beta is finally ready for download!
mig33 Is Still Hiring
mig33 is still hiring, and this time we need more engineers. Based in Singapore, we're looking for software, mobile, web, system and release engineers. Interested? Send your CV to jobs@mig33global.com, and fresh polytechnic or university graduates are most welcome too!
mig33 Is Hiring!
mig33 is expanding and hiring more engineers and designers! We want PHP/MySQL web engineers, Java and J2ME engineers, ideally raw graduates up to five years' experience, plus designers. Interested? Send your resume to lester.chan at mig33global.
Confirmed At mig33
Time flies! I've worked at mig33 since 1st February 2010, and my three-month probation is up with good news: I'm confirmed! It's my first job and I love it, learning loads, especially ExtJS and proper MVC coding in PHP. Overjoyed!
Happy Lunar New Year 2010
This week ends my second week at mig33, and work has been smooth; I love it. Instead of coding WordPress plugins for that community, I'm now coding mig33 software. Today is also Lunar New Year's eve.
Web Engineer at mig33
I've spent the first quarter of my life studying: six years primary, four secondary, three at Singapore Polytechnic, two-plus years serving the nation, and three and a half at NUS. Finally it's time to step into the working world.