Well, we've made it to version 4 of the website now. Finally decided to stop making things from scratch for my side projects 🤣. Laravel for the backend and a Bootstrap template for the frontend. Some data pulled from the TFT stats from the Riot API, MTG decks from the Moxfield API and tweets from the Twitter API.
My other notable project is fortressmaxmius.io. A site for now defunct Transformer TCG from Wizards of the Coast. Another Laravel project which started as a searchable database for all the cards in the game, grew to a deck builder and eventually I started creating content for the community as well. Tried to generate some revenue from ads and affiliate links to buy cards from online retailers, worked with writers and artists to create strategy articles for the game. Tech stack used Redis for cache, Algolia for search and deployed on Digital Ocean.
Maracas Bay, Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹
🎶 These are a few of my favourite things
If we're ever on a game show and you have to list off my favourite things, here they are in digestible point form.
What is there to know about Dave? Video games and coding. That's basically it. One of my earliest memories is "playing" Flight Simulator on my dad's old monochrome screen PC. The first time we got a CGA monitor my mind was blown and ever since I started playing the first Civilization I've been forever hooked on video games.
My dad taught me Basic and I guess I thought that was so cool I'd focus the rest of my life on writing code. From DOS batch files to Java, I've finally found a home with PHP.
Resume
Summary
Dave Wong
Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience. Loves working at startups because they have such good snacks. I've run scrums, led small teams, coordinated with PM's, wrote tons of code, deployed to AWS, Digital Ocean and Azure. Just tell me what we're building and lets get to it 💡
Education
Bachelor of Science Computer Science
2001 - 2006
Ryerson Univeristy, Toronto, ON
Java was the future they said. Applets will run anywhere they said. Took one LAMP stack course and fell in love with web development ❤️
Database, deck builder and strategy article site for the now defunct Transformers TCG card game. Built on Laravel, search powered by Algolia, affiliate links to ebay and TCGPlayer.com, integrated with Google Adsense and Analytics, worked with freelancers to create articles and art for the site. Card lookup bot integrated on the /r/transformerstcg subreddit.
At the game's peak popularity my sites metrics topped out at 4.3k monthly active users and over 150k monthly page views. #1 Google search result for "Transformers TCG decks" and "Transformers TCG deck builder".
Stop sharing your secrets on Slack! sharedsecret.app is simple and secure way to quickly share some data. Your secret is encrypted and the link to the secret will expire after an hour or until it is viewed once.
Magic the Gathering deck building helper. Recommendation engine for how many mana sources you should have in your deck to cast your spells on curve. Easily import your decks from popular Magic the Gathering deck building sites.
A journal for your Wordles - Keep a log of all your Wordles, find out stats like how often you missed it by just one letter! Share your journle with your friends and follow them to see how they did everyday!
Forecastly provides personalized weather summaries tailored to your day. Get real-time, relevant forecasts that help you plan ahead with ease. Simplified weather, just for you.
Backend development and DevOps for the Hypercontext web app
Senior back end engineer, back end chapter lead, approves back end project requirements, code reviews
Various roles such as scrum master, team lead and devops in addition to back end software engineer
Test driven development. Test everything. Review everything. Deploy with confidence.
Application Developer
2013 - 2016
Jumbleberry, Toronto, ON
Developed and maintained the company's internal application built on Zend framework. The main focus was aggregating sales data from various third party websites (via API or web scraping) and displaying those reports for the sales team.
Created an internal API for the company's platform built on Phalcon framework. The backend of the original platform was migrated to this new API based platform
Migrated in-house web services to AWS and deployed new technologies on services such as Redis, Gearman, Consul, Chef and Doctrine
Created new development environments that were deployed with Chef on Vagrant that mirrored production and staging environments. Created a deployment script so the entire dev environment can be deployed on to a new machine
Web Developer
Jan 2012 - Nov 2012
Culturalite, Toronto, ON
PHP, MySQL, Yii Framework web development for web scraping and data aggregation.
System Engineer
2007 - 2011
STJ Retail, Toronto, ON
Perl, Postgres development and DevOps for Point of Sales systems.
I never thought I would ever find a game that could replace Marvel Overpower. Marvel Snap is everything I look for in a card game. It's a quick, fast paced card game where you get to build a team of your favourite Marvel heroes and villians. The location system keeps things fresh and the small deck size makes it easy to just brew and tune decks. It's a refreshing take on card games where every new game is trying to be the next Hearthstone.
I've been playing Magic since 94/95 started around Revised/Ice Age era. Especially after listening to Maro's Drive to Work podcast (if you have any interest in game design I highly recommend it), I really do think Magic The Gathering is probably one of the greatest games ever made.
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