I practice Deep Work and I time block my Deep Work sessions. During those sessions, I perform Deliberate Practice, where I constantly seek Radically Candid feedback

Experiences

• Natural Language Engineer
• Swift Developer
• Alumni volunteering chair
• UI Designer
• Meetup Group organizer
• Customer Service Representative

Side Projects

• Due to the policies of my current work, my side/personal projects are private and will not be disclosed at this time

Previous Projects/Roles

• Bloomberg LP
• (Now defunct, sadly 🥹) Learn Swift Hong Kong
• UCLA Alumni Hong Kong Network

Other fun stuff

• My YouTube channel - thetimyt

Books

• Book Recommendations (if you’d like, I highly recommend you read them in this order)
  • So Good They Can’t Ignore You
  • Deep Work
  • Digital Minimalism
  • Talent is Overrated
  • Ultralearning
  • Radical Candor
  • How to Become a Straight-A Student
  • The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
  • The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated
  • A World Without Email
  • Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
  • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Languages

• For humans
  • Cantonese (Hong Kong)
  • English (US preferred)
  • Spanish
  • Mandarin Chinese
• For computers
  • Swift
  • Python
  • C++
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Java

Tools/services I use

• Blinkist
• Headspace
• FastGraphs

Contact

Given my demanding roles as a software engineer and alumni association chair member, I try as much as possible to devote the time left over for my deep work on side projects and my family and friends. Evidently, I’m harder to reach than most software engineers: I don’t have a general purpose email address and I don’t use social media frequently.

For the above reason, if you have an offer, opportunity, or introduction that might make my life more interesting, please contact me via jobs@timmyng.com. Consequently, I’ll only respond to those proposals that are a good match for my schedule and interests.

• New jobs/opportunities: jobs@timmyng.com
• Questions: questions@timmyng.com
• LinkedIn
• GitHub

Coffee Chats

If you’d like, I am more than happy to chat with you over coffee. ☕ Sign up for a coffee chat

There’s lots of ways to be, as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there. And you never meet the people. You never shake their hands. You never hear their story or tell yours. But somehow, in the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, something’s transmitted there. And it’s a way of expressing to the rest of our species our deep appreciation. So we need to be true to who we are and remember what’s really important to us.