Life's a journey, not a destination
JEFF SALLEH
As a skilled and experienced professional technologist and my passion to increase the efficiency of non-profit organizations by the use technology, I know how much hard work and careful thought it takes to succeed. My CV site is my way of documenting everything I’ve done, everything I’ve learned and how I see myself developing in the future. If you’d like to learn more about me, browse through the site. If you see something you like, or you want to discuss what I can do for you, feel free to drop me a line.
PERSONAL STATEMENT
I am looking to opportunities where I can use my technical skill not only to bring business value to the company but have impact to the community. I look forward to work with individuals and organizations that are forward looking and ready to jump in and work on possibilities. With lots of practical experience to back me up, as well as an extensive skill set, I’ve got the flexibility and necessary experience to get things done right. Want to know more about what I can do for you? Get in touch today.
PERSONAL PROFILE
Get To Know Me
I am a Director, Cloud Engineering based in Singapore. My career has given me opportunities to develop enterprise-class software products, bring emerging technologies to my customers and developing cloud services. I have spend a significant part of my 20 year career with Oracle Asia R&D Center working with colleagues across various geographies and line of business and currently with the Java Platform Group, Oracle, a team that is responsible for the Java programming language. In my private capacity, I am also a founder of Voiddeck Ventures and Voiddeck Football - a not for profit organization whose mission is to allow small non-profit organizations to embrace technology in order to increase their productivity and a platform to bring local football fans a better online footie experience.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Director, Cloud Engineering
Java Platform Group
Feb 2003 - Present
I started my career with Oracle in 2003 as an experience intern with Oracle Wireless Server 9i development team at Oracle HQ, Redwood Shores for 1.5 years. I worked on JDeveloper Wireless Extension kit which allowed J2ME and web-app developers to quickly develop wireless applications on Oracle wireless platform. I conducted hands-on session at Oracle Open World 2003 for wireless application development. I moved back to Singapore and joined Oracle Asia R&D Center the same year the center was established in Singapore.
I played many different roles and working with presales and Oracle consulting working on projects around APAC. I have had made 2 major software releases - Linear Tape File System - Library Edition (LTFS-LE) and StorageTek Tape Analytics (STA).
In LTFS-LE, the product was built from scratch and we gow the team from 2 engineers to 12. A great experience not only about building software but releasing and giving training and support to the field as it was a new product then. This project was a collaboration with US, Singapore and China. STA was a smaller scale project with the team focusing more on the UI and UX part of the system. We developed various BI graphs for analytics for dashboards and other parts of the system.
I am the Security Lead for Oracle Asia R&D with the responsibility of ensuring the proper training for engineers to have secure development practices training. I review projects and the final signatory for products developed by the group to ensure all security checklists are completed and adhered. I am Chief Architect of the group and I led other architects and team leads in their product or other engagements to ensure reusability of their work across the organizations and sound implementation. Part of the Oracle Product Architects' Community (OPAC) represented by less 1% of the technical community in Oracle where we discuss and work together to chart Oracle's product technology directions.
FOUNDER, VOIDDECK VENTURES
May 2017 - Present
Co-Founder and lead engineer for Voiddeck Ventures Pte Ltd (www.voiddeck.sg) a not for profit company whose mission is to empower non-profit organization to gain productivity by using technology and contribute to build a community and mentoring young software engineers who are looking for opportunity to give back to the community.
We provide an cloud-based, open source CRM system based on CiviCRM for organizations at cost recovery model and help them to maintain and operate the systems. We build applications such as Attendance Tracking System for events/classes on top of the CRM system. We would like to expand and provide other typical back office applications suck as ERP and HCM so that organizations can operate more efficiently while not worrying too much about the IT expertise. The team had successfully run trials over that past year and now we are ready to move forward and assist more non-profit organizations in their digitall transformation journey.
We have mentored aspiring engineers who are final year students from the tertiary education and those who are new to the workforce. We worked together to help these non-profit organizations by doing projects together and by doing so sharing experiences and giving pointers. This active mentoring has been effective as it is a combination of soft and hands-on approach that gives everyone a chance to learn together and achieve a specific goal.
Senior Manager
Oracle Asia R&D Center
Feb 2003 - Present
I started my career with Oracle in 2003 as an experience intern with Oracle Wireless Server 9i development team at Oracle HQ, Redwood Shores for 1.5 years. I worked on JDeveloper Wireless Extension kit which allowed J2ME and web-app developers to quickly develop wireless applications on Oracle wireless platform. I conducted hands-on session at Oracle Open World 2003 for wireless application development. I moved back to Singapore and joined Oracle Asia R&D Center the same year the center was established in Singapore.
I played many different roles and working with presales and Oracle consulting working on projects around APAC. I have had made 2 major software releases - Linear Tape File System - Library Edition (LTFS-LE) and StorageTek Tape Analytics (STA).
In LTFS-LE, the product was built from scratch and we gow the team from 2 engineers to 12. A great experience not only about building software but releasing and giving training and support to the field as it was a new product then. This project was a collaboration with US, Singapore and China. STA was a smaller scale project with the team focusing more on the UI and UX part of the system. We developed various BI graphs for analytics for dashboards and other parts of the system.
I am the Security Lead for Oracle Asia R&D with the responsibility of ensuring the proper training for engineers to have secure development practices training. I review projects and the final signatory for products developed by the group to ensure all security checklists are completed and adhered. I am Chief Architect of the group and I led other architects and team leads in their product or other engagements to ensure reusability of their work across the organizations and sound implementation. Part of the Oracle Product Architects' Community (OPAC) represented by less 1% of the technical community in Oracle where we discuss and work together to chart Oracle's product technology directions.
SKILLS
TEAM MANAGEMENT
Building high performing team across Singapore and Beijing, China.
INTERACTIVE DESIGN
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FRONT-END DEVELOPMENT
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MICROSERVICES
Building microservices using Docker, Kubernetes.
Snr Member of Technical Staff
Oracle Asia R&D Center
Feb 2003 - Present
I started my career with Oracle in 2003 as an experience intern with Oracle Wireless Server 9i development team at Oracle HQ, Redwood Shores for 1.5 years. I worked on JDeveloper Wireless Extension kit which allowed J2ME and web-app developers to quickly develop wireless applications on Oracle wireless platform. I conducted hands-on session at Oracle Open World 2003 for wireless application development. I moved back to Singapore and joined Oracle Asia R&D Center the same year the center was established in Singapore.
I played many different roles and working with presales and Oracle consulting working on projects around APAC. I have had made 2 major software releases - Linear Tape File System - Library Edition (LTFS-LE) and StorageTek Tape Analytics (STA).
In LTFS-LE, the product was built from scratch and we gow the team from 2 engineers to 12. A great experience not only about building software but releasing and giving training and support to the field as it was a new product then. This project was a collaboration with US, Singapore and China. STA was a smaller scale project with the team focusing more on the UI and UX part of the system. We developed various BI graphs for analytics for dashboards and other parts of the system.
I am the Security Lead for Oracle Asia R&D with the responsibility of ensuring the proper training for engineers to have secure development practices training. I review projects and the final signatory for products developed by the group to ensure all security checklists are completed and adhered. I am Chief Architect of the group and I led other architects and team leads in their product or other engagements to ensure reusability of their work across the organizations and sound implementation. Part of the Oracle Product Architects' Community (OPAC) represented by less 1% of the technical community in Oracle where we discuss and work together to chart Oracle's product technology directions.
EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
2016-2017
The Stanford LEAD Certificate in Corporate Innovation is a year-long, 8-course program on key business fundamentals: finance, strategy, and critical thinking, as well as elective options such as design thinking and the innovation process, building business models, negotiation strategies, and overcoming resistance to change. Throughout the program, participants exchange ideas and collaborate on projects with small teams of like-minded, like-motivated peers, and engage with world-renowned Stanford GSB faculty, Silicon Valley leaders, coaches, thought leaders, and luminaries through regular live events, discussions, and facilitated feedback.
BSC NETWORK COMPUTING, MONASH UNIVERSITY
1999-2001
I attained a first-class honours degree in the Bachelor of Network Computing. My honours thesis is on crytographic library for mobile devices (iPaq and Palm OS). I achieved an average grade of Higher-Distiction for all the course work.
DIPLOMA IN IT, TEMASEK POLYTECHNIC, SINGAPORE
1993-1996
A 3-year course diploma in IT covering fundamentals of software development, digital fundamentals.
"The beginning is the most important part of the work"
Plato
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