Nicholas Ng

Senior Software Engineer

• Lead a team of software engineers to develop a next generation ultrasound product
• Broke down requirements into features for delegation through a Gantt chart
• Designed and developed key infrastructure for smoother collaborative development
• Implemented an automated build and unit test pipeline through GitLab CI/CD

Software Engineer

• Developed and maintained software for an existing basic ultrasound product
• Designed and implemented core functions of an advanced ultrasound surgical product
• Learnt and applied Qt framework for user interfacing and the Visualization Toolkit(VTK) for 3D graphics and modelling using C++
• Improved workflow through: better OOP infrastructure design, transitioned XML data storage to SQLite database, and established a documentation procedure with auto-generated documentation using Doxygen
• Compiled common functions across projects into a scalable library for future projects
• Researched and applied RSA encryption to an offline software licensing system

Summer Intern

• Designed and implemented a PostgreSQL database with a simple Windows user interface program with Java for employee timesheets management
• Concurrently wrote scripts to automate tedious and repetitive tasks, such as extracting and processing data from multiple Excel documents and compiling them into one
• Expanded existing database schema to accommodate for additional projects, such as analysis of historical data

Newcastle University

First class honours

• Researched and wrote my dissertation an “Analysis and comparison of heuristic algorithms in chess endgames” by implementing and evaluating simplified Minimax and Monte-Carlo Tree Search algorithms with C++
• Developed coursework solutions with Java on topics such as: object-oriented principles, user interfaces, and SQL database integration
• Explored graphics and physics engine assignments with C++