Kah Wai Liew

UX Engineer Team Lead, Design at Grab

Hsinchu City, Taiwan, Taiwan

About

Kah Wai here, family in Taiwan and Malaysia both. As a Software Developer, front-end, back-end development experience for more than eight years. I also work on mobile apps using React Native during my free time. like: PTT+ Github: https://github.com/tureki (Details in my LinkedIn project)

Experience

  • Grab (8 yrs 4 mos)
    • UX Engineer Team Lead, Design at Grab
      Jan 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 7 mos

    • Lead UX Engineer, Design
      Apr 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 4 mos

      etc.

  • Director Of Engineering at Love, Bonito
    Jun 2017 - Mar 2018 · 10 mos

    • Design architecture for new applications • Define and set up the development environment for Engineers • Built applications infrastructure on AWS, VPC, etc • Built CI/CD flow using AWS CodeDeploy, ECR, ALB, etc • Improve/Refactor system stability, flexible, quality • Improve backend; browser render performance • Integrating Third-Party Services • Technical decision making for teams Products/initiatives that I've worked on: • Dockerize Application Modify all application servers using Docker, to ensure consistent environments across local, staging and production. Microservices/Custom module Create custom modules for our e-commerce system and stakeholder. We also built a lot of micro-services using Lambda/Serverless on AWS, like image proxy service. • Migration System Migrate the e-commerce system to Magento2 from PrestaShop.

  • Lead UX Engineer, Design at Grab
    Aug 2016 - May 2017 · 10 mos

    • Built high fidelity prototypes for customer validation and stakeholder buy-in using React-native, React.js • Built some tools for Designers to improve communications with the engineering team • Define and set up development flow for UX Engineers • Develop and research on the prototype using cutting-edge technologies include React-native, React.js, Redux, Objective-C, Java for both iOS and Android. Products/initiatives that I've worked on: • Street Hailing (GrabNow) A prototype project let the passenger can face-to-face booking the bike with the driver. We build the passenger and driver app for our user research team and also tried to use "Sound" to mapping the booking. For example, Google Nearby and Chirp. • Icons Library A project to generates iOS, Android, JS icon font library from designer's icon Sketch files using Gulp. That means the Web/Mobile developer can easily import the library and use the icons on the projects. • App Redesign The project to build passenger app work with our designer. We need to make sure the idea works before going into production. etc.

  • Senior Engineer at KKBOX Inc.
    Nov 2014 - Feb 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Maintained Citytalk, developed the Citymate web and mobile app. [My Work] • Front-end application development. • Back-end architecture design. • Server architecture layout. • Deployment CI / CD. • RESTful API Design.

  • Research and Development Manager at Citytalk
    Jul 2010 - Jul 2014 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    Team lead - architect both front and backend stacks. [My Work] Front-end application development, architecture design. • JavaScript • HTML • CSS • etc. Backend program development, architecture design. • PHP • PostgreSQL • MySQL • etc. Server architecture layout, maintenance and management.(Amazon Web Service) • Web Server (Nginx, Apache) • Cluster Network File System • PostgreSQL Server • MySQL Server • etc. [Products] • Participate in discussions and planning. • Technical feasibility estimate. [Management] • Evaluation Engineers development time. • Formulation of engineers and designers to developer rules. • Import tool to enhance the speed of development. [Other] • Site speed optimization • Optimize server • Website SEO Optimization • Server Administrator