Dereck Lam Hon Wah

Experience

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  MCB Leasing Limited

  Mar 2017 - Jan 2018

  Accounting Trainee

  - Managed daily bookkeeping functions with attention to accounts receivable, accounts payable, banking reconciliation, and disbursements.- Prepared month-end closing entries for detailed reporting and recordkeeping.- Resolved vendor and employee inquiries about invoices and purchases quickly through search.- Processed vendors/surveyors’ payments.- Resolved account issues with strengths in research, problem-solving, and solution development.- Planned and followed up on petty cash management.- Good understanding of the accounting software: Sage Pastel. Voir moins

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  MCB Group

  Jan 2018 - Jan 2018

  Internship Trainee

  - Work alongside senior team members to learn related job tasks and roles.- Update documentation and reports of client database.- Collaborate with recovery team members to trace and contact individuals with due balances.- Modernizing and digitizing of the KPI (Key Performance Indicator) process of employees.

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  MUA Mauritius & East Africa

  Oct 2018 - Jan 2020

  Customer Support Representative

  - Increase data collection accuracy by recording and scanning client KYC.- Uphold high standards of customers services by responding to inquiries, needs, and problems.- Explain features, advantages, disadvantages of various policies to help promote sales of insurance plans to clients.- Process customers’ insurance requests on the company system.

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  InSense

  Jan 2020 - Sept 2020

  Event Planning Intern

  - Promote events through social media.- Organize venues, budgets, guest lists, catering, and event timelines.- Work closely with team members to deliver project requirements, develop solutions and meet deadlines.- Meet with service providers to evaluate offering and pricing structures.

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  SPICE Finance

  Mar 2020 - Sept 2021

  Back Office Executive

  - Plan meetings for a staff meeting weekly and coordinate availability of conference rooms.- Gather information, scan records and maintain the confidentiality of all electronic data.- Answer and route phone calls and emails, always maintaining confidentiality.- Prepare contracts, lease agreements, and other related documents on a daily and timely basis.- Process customer/vendor payments and set up customer payment plans.

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  OceanDBA

  Jan 2022 - Sept 2022

  Software Engineer Intern

  - Completed training sessions on Linux system administration and MariaDB database management.- Built a command‑line Python application which allows the internal operation team to execute secure bash commands on a proxy without direct access to the customers’ machines.- Built a GoLang application with a TUI and CLI interface to help the automation team in the client machine deployment process. It provides real‑time insights into deployed machines across client nodes and simplifies deployment using Terraform and the Proxmox provider, by significantly reducing overhead. Voir moins

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  Dodobird.ai

  Jan 2023 - now

  - Led the front-end development and assisted the back-end development of a universal Autonomous AI Agent chatbot plugin for any content management and e‑commerce platforms like WordPress, Prestashop and Shopify.- Serving as a consultant to enhance the accounting workflow process of our company’s clients.- Integrated a WAF (Web Application Firewall) using Cloudflare Turnstile and SSO (Single Sign-On) using AWS Cognito and OAuth.- Maintaining and implementing new features on the different projects of the company using different front‑end and back‑end technologies. Voir moins - Architect a solution by integrating a CASL, an isomorphic authorization Javascript library to manage tenant resource access.- Successfully led the migration from Node.js v14 to v18 and Vue.js 2 to Vue.js 3, enhancing the application’s performance and user experience.- Implemented pre-commit hook for automated E2E testing using Cypress and Husky.- Optimized search queries on a PostgreSQL database using Full Text Search and Indexing.- Developed image upload feature using AWS S3 using pre-signed URLs for security.- Maintaining and implementing new features on the different projects of the company using different front‑end and back‑end technologies. Voir moins

  • Junior Software Engineer

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Junior Software Engineer

    Sept 2023 - Jan 2024

  • Software Engineer Intern

    Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
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  Middlesex University Mauritius

  Mar 2023 - Jan 2024

  Student Learning Assistant

  - Acted as a ‘buddy’ to their new peers who freshly joined the university during induction and the first month of their study.- Acted as facilitator working closely with Academics.- Offered peer assistance through consultations.- Collaborated on projects under the Learning Enhancement unit.