Sau Sheong Chang

Biography

I am currently the Director of Applied Research in HP Labs Singapore, responsible for managing a team of research engineers focusing on researching, developing and testing cloud computing research projects. My particular area of research interest is in cloud computing, social media, data analytics and big data.

Before joining HP, I was the Chief Technology Officer for Garena, a gaming platform and publishing company. My responsibilities included leading an engineering team to develop, deploy and maintain Garena's software products and games.

Prior to Garena, I was the Director of Engineering for Yahoo! Southeast Asia, where I led a team in the continual development and maintenance of Yahoo!'s websites and services for customers across the region. During my time at Yahoo!, I was also the Head of Yahoo!'s Developer Network for Southeast Asia, driving developer garages, interactions and forums across the region.

My other past experiences include managing a global software development centre for Welcome Real-time (a global card marketing software provider) as Software Development Director; and co-founding elipva (an e-business solutions specialist) as Chief Architect and VP of Product Engineering.

I'm an active developer and technology enthusiast with links to various grassroot developer groups in Singapore, in particular the Singapore Ruby Brigade. In 2008 I published a book titled 'Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects' and 'Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby' in 2010. I am currently working a third book with O'Reilly. On occasion I help mentor and advise a few startups especially in the technology aspects.

I have a degree in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, a Masters in Commercial Law from the University of Derby, and a Graduate Certificate in International Arbitration from the National University of Singapore.

Research interests

Cloud computing, data analytics, big data, social media, agent-based simulations

Publications

• Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects (ISBN 978-1847193933)
• Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby (ISBN 978-1849511063)
• IT2010 : Beyond the Web Lifestyle (ISBN 978-0130179371) (contributing)
• Get Your Apps Out - Javaworld January 2001
• Build Wizards Quickly Using a Swing-Based Wizard Framework - Java Report May 2001
• Tapestry : A Centralized User Management System - Javaworld June 2001
• Building Dynamic Fail-Over Java Servers - Dr. Dobb’s Journal November 2001
• I’ll do it on One Condition - Javaworld May 2002-0503-condition.html
• Building a portal is not a trivial task - Computer Times October 2002