Syamil MJ
Founder at Cotaq
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Summary
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Top SchoolSyamil MJ is a seasoned technologist and founder with 14 years of experience building software and leading teams across advertising, e-commerce, event management and healthcare. He currently leads Cotaq, which applies personalized, instructor-led experiences to reimagine health and fitness, and has held senior engineering and product leadership roles at companies like Naluri, Fave, and Setel. Pragmatic and hands-on, he contributes to open-source (notably refining WordPress image resizing logic in Aqua-Resizer) and champions the Elixir community across Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Trained in Ship Science and Naval Architecture at the University of Southampton, he brings a systems-oriented engineering mindset to product and architecture decisions.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
A-Level, A-Level at Kolej Mara SerembanSPM, SPM at MRSM Jasin, MelakaShip Science, Naval Architecture and Marine Systems Engineering, Ship Science, Naval Architecture and Marine Systems Engineering at University of Southampton
Github Skills (4)
image-resizer10
php10
wordpress10
image-resizing10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
syamilmj/Aqua-Resizer
May 2012 - Jun 2017
Resize WordPress images on the fly
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Syamil primarily focused on enhancing the `aq_resizer.php` file within the WordPress image resizing project. Their contributions involved refining the resizing logic, optimizing for image sizes, and implementing a broken image check. The user also addressed a WPML-related issue and updated the documentation to improve code readability and maintainability. The user's work demonstrates a focus on core functionality and bug fixes related to image manipulation within WordPress.
wordpress
syamilmj/para
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
Para - Declarative way to parse and validate parameters
Contributions:4 releases, 41 commits, 10 PRs in 4 months
parametersajvvalidationdeclarativeschema-validation
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