About

Abstract

System Engineer at Motorola Solutions (Avigilon)

Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Engineering) gradute of University of British Columbia (UBC), class of 2025.

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Notable experiences:

  • Systems Engineering Co-op for 12 months at Avigilon, a Motorola Solutions company
  • Web3 research Co-op for 8 months at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation in Tokyo, Japan
    • Published research findings in an IEICE conference paper
  • Software Team DevOps Lead of UBC Subbots, an Autonomous Underwater Robot (AUV) team
  • Exchange student at National University of Singapore (NUS) for 4 months
  • Android apps developer
  • Operator of a home server

The Serious Part

Born and raised in Macau, I have always been fascinated with tech since I can remember, especially Linux and open-source projects. Amid the recent trend of service and subscription-based models on anything, open source projects really are a breath of fresh air.

My work experiences range from trying different CPU and RAM to find cost effective specifications that meets requirements, to developing Ethereum smart contracts for a brand new mobile payment model. I can tackle issues and projects with creativity and unique perspectives. Together with setting clear requirements and designing small experiments to test different solutions, I am able to find the most effective solution.

In my free time, I designed, built, and am still maintaining a home server providing home networking routing, authoritative DNS, web hosting, RADIUS server, and VPN (and more) on Proxmox (previous VMWare ESXi, finally moved away from it!), where I gained hands-on experience with various enterprise software.

I also work on Android apps development. Snapchat Streaks Reminder and Chinese Converter are my main projects, with more coming up. Currently with 30,000+ combined downloads!

Read more about my hobbies on Projects page.

The Fun Part (no, grinding Leetcode is not a hobby…)

Weirdly interested in television broadcasts and rail transit systems lately… and editing Wikipedia. What happens when you combine transit and Wikipedia? I went to every station of Macau LRT to take pictures for Wikipedia. Also, read my blog series on the history of television broadcasts in Macau! (written in Chinese)

Also got into photography in recent years. Started with landscape, street, and architecture, exploring cosplay and portrait photography recently. Gear: Canon R7 with 18-150mm, 50mm f/1.8, 24mm f/2.8.

However, my biggest interest of all is to research and learn completely random stuff about our world. I could be looking at Street View of Mumbai right now, and I might be off to reading about why time in Urumqi might be two hours apart depending on who do you ask. As much as this sounds like an excuse for wasting time, I believe that if everyone can spend some time away from mainstream media with everything laser-focused on your own country, and look at how people in other parts of the world live their lives, we might just be a little closer to world peace.

When people ask me a fun fact about me, I tell them I edit Wikipedia for fun. If that’s not enough to scare them away, I show them My Grand List of Hobbies and Interests.

Interested in my projects? Something to tell me? Feel free to drop me an email and talk about anything!

Why iatfei.com?

I wanted to use feikuan.com, but it is owned by a domain hoarder.

Real Answer: Iat Fei is my actual first name, and so my email address is just [email protected], consistent with Eastern name order.