Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim

Full-Stack Developer

I am a web developer at the Singapore Discovery Centre who learned to code at Le Wagon's web development bootcamp. I am also an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, a GCP Associate Cloud Engineer, and a Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner with Scrum Alliance.

Before my career transition to technology, I was in academia. I received my M.A. in Philosophy from the National University of Singapore and my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I taught subjects like Philosophy and Political Science at Pannasastra University of Cambodia, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the American University of Nigeria.

Publications

My publications include Cambodia and the Politics of Aesthetics and China and Southeast Asia in the Xi Jinping Era. My books may be available at a library near you. My full writing portfolio can be found at Academia.edu.

My Projects

Savvy Granny Mr Cocktail

Savvy Granny

Savvy Granny [source code] is a marketplace app which matches tutors with seniors who want to learn technology skills.

It was our Le Wagon capstone team project which we developed from scratch in two weeks with Agile/Scrum methodology.

I focused on building the backend, including the authentication, authorization, and payment systems.

Mr Cocktail

Mister Cocktail [source code] is a cocktail recipe app written in Ruby on Rails.

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