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Chris Chong

Lead Developer / Senior Developer

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About Me

I'm an experienced Web Developer that is focused on delivering solutions to people instead of just a simple website. To this end, I focus on the development of Custom Web Systems as well as Websites in Wordpress for clients needing a solution that fits their particular needs. During my free time, I enjoy trading on the foreign exchange market, learning new development techniques and reading books on entrepreneurship.

I am always open to improving my skillset and have quickly adapted frameworks that haven't seen widespread use in Australia yet but have been used elsewhere such as Svelte/Sveltekit and NextJS. These frameworks drastically speed up development time and remain at the forefront of rapid uptake for many SAAS businesses in the US which I would love to see in Australia.

Experience

First Page

Lead Developer

I was asked to join First Page as a senior developer working closely with the SEO team and managed to gain a large amount of knowledge regarding the impact of SEO on websites and how best to develop in a way that is search engine friendly. SEO is mostly a forgotten feature by developers as an example, working on a NextJS site - Lisnic.com for the company, they had missed many golden SEO opportunities in development that would take longer to do after the fact.

Knowing SEO as a web developer has greatly grown my core knowledge regarding development and enabled me to think of ways to implement JS frameworks for SAAS applications that are SEO friendly and can generate traffic therefore making money for the business.

I was also promoted to a Lead Developer in my time at First Page and led a team of 2 other junior developers in implementing a variety of development changes, SEO implementations and landing page creation projects for clients in many industries including clients such as Michael Page, Hairhouse Warehouse, Disney, Windsor Smith, Wellsons, Mazuchellis and more via providing developer expertise to Technical SEOs and Account managers in some cases even doing the actual implementation with the trust of the client.

As I have worked with and around many departments related to marketing I am confident in being able to align the marketing-side of the business to generate revenue for the company while improving development SLAs through new tools including Generative AI such as chatgpt, and github copilot or nocode tools where applicable such as Bubble for rapid development.

ROI COM AU

Web Developer

As a growing web developer I quickly joined a fast-paced agency in order to up my skillset. This role enabled me to gain exposure to many standard platforms in the web industry - Wordpress & Shopify in particular which have helped me to this date as they make up a majority of the types of CMS' and backends that people have. While I was at ROI I worked on developing a new theme for Wordpress enabling functional workflows and extensability compared to existing page builders used by most DIY owners or development agencies.

HSP Ute Lids

IT Support and Website Administrator

I begun this role in 2015 due to starting university and have been actively providing value to the company both in terms of their website as well as other parts of the company such as graphic materials and advertising.

Freelance

Web developer

I have worked on several websites for an array of clients, some of my work can be seen below. The websites I have worked on have ranged from simple CMS systems to complex web systems for operation management.

Jurukur Tempatan

Web developer

I pursued a role as a web developer in an overseas company for an internship to build my experience. Through my time in the company I learned many new things about both the industry of the company, surveying and also about working with people from other countries.

Education

Deakin University

January 2015 - Dec 2018

Bachelor of Information Technology majoring in Mobile Apps and Programming

Learned about many things in the IT space concerning programming and mobile app development. This has made me a more well rounded developer and given me the confidence to deliver exceptional products.

Projects

Keqingmains

An optimised site built from scratch with amazing content by a talent community of game players. This site has managed to garnever over 2.5 MILLION views a month across the world with a majority of traffic from the USA.

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gachagamers.com

A gaming news website primarily aimed at younger millenial audiences. The website was built with Wordpress and has been improved upon using a lot of the SEO knowledge I had learned from previous projects.

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Lisnic.com

NextJS website. Worked on integrating a custom subscription payments system with stripe's library on the platfom as well as helping out with various technical seo related implementations such as sitemaps and loading speed.

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seohelper.au

A fun svelte project to give back to the SEO community. The tools are used internally by developers at First Page and I am always planning for new tools to implement on the website in my spare time.

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what-is-high-bloodpressure.com

Website for testing programmatic SEO strategies at scale. The site ended up being penalised by Google but it was an excellent experiment into how to generate SEO content at scale on the svelekit framework. All pages were served at the edge using Cloudflare.

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King Midas

Developed from scratch in order to generate new leads for CRM and Email marketing.

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Mooning

Complete re-development taking over from a failed Freelancer project that had made it in Elementor. It was slow, not responsive and hard to update. Not anymore.

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First Page Australia/New Zealand/USA/Hong Kong/Singapore

Complete re-development using my framework to improve how the content is being generated as well as methods to improve the SEO of the website.

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HSP Ute Lids

Website for a local manufacturer of aftermarket ute accessories in Melbourne with E-commerce functionality.

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HSP Ute Lids

Second website done for HSP Ute Lids that has E-commerce functionality and is able to handle payments. This was built using Shopify with theme modifications done by me.

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SpaceBalls Game

This is a simple game that is made for children between the ages of 5 - 12 to play. It is an alphabet based space shooter that can be played on both mobile and PC and uses libraries such as Jquery for functionality.

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LearnJP

This is a website to help people learn japanese and improve on the basics. It includes flashcards and a dictionary for Japanese to English. This is a work in progress with more features to be added in the future.

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E-Commerce Website Built from scratch

This is a website with e-commerce functionality that is built completely from scratch using PHP and Javascript for the functionality. It is able to process payments and also save user information.

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Aircut Startup

This is a website for a startup that has email list functionality. Users that add their emails will be added to a list where they can be group emailed on product updates from the company.

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DailynewsJP

This is a website for daily japanese news that aggregates it from different websites. It is fully automated and requires no work on the user's part. Monthly stats are between 2-3k visits without advertising.

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GIS Project

This is a website that was built for a government body in Malaysia during an Internship. The website is very similar to the one done above however it is focused on showing data on a 3D interactive map.

Document Management System

Website built for managing documents and showing data. This website has user permissions, database CRUD functionality, charts, tables, encryption etc. Built using PHP.

Creative Geelong Makershub

Website built for Creative Geelong's Makershub to show data that is collected from a Raspberry Pi person identification software in the form of charts and tables. The charts can be generated and viewed on a seperate site via iframes.

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Protected Contacts Manager

Simple Contact Manager can be used to securely store your private contacts' details. With the secure AES encryption, your password is in safe hands! This app has all the basic features of a Contact Manager such as being able to add phone numbers and avatars as well as edit or delete your contacts!

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Dungeon of Text Mobile Game

This is a simple text RPG game built using Android Studio. The app uses a matrix to keep track of the user's movement inside the dungeon and can be built upon further by anyone else if they want to.

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Moneysenpai Expense Calculator and Helper

Cross Platform app built using Xamarin that has expense tracking functionality and shows useful tips on investment and savings.

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Shashin

Photo viewer that can grab images from Unsplash and display them via API. Users can also take pictures and view them in the gallery within the app. The app is passcode protected.

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Xpense-Trackr

Native IOS app built for tracking expenses. More robust than the Xamarin App and stores data internally. This supports most IPhone models but not the new IphoneX onwards due to display issues.

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Get In Touch

Email : [email protected]

Phone : 0450 385 430