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The 10 tech geeks under 30 to watch
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ingapore Business Review searched through the local app development market to round up 10 fresh-faced app developers under 30. These young men, with ages ranging from 29 all the way down to 21, are behind apps for Android and iOS, from games to productivity tools. 1. At an early age of 18, Sidwyn Koh has launched a tech training company, The Pragmatic Lab. He has also worked with numerous Bay Area startups to build iOS apps and has led the mobile team at Roomarama, a booking site for short term rentals. Now at 21, Sidwyn is working on Occuhunt, a job hunting site. 2-3. Burpple, a social food guide app that has been featured both in Google Play Store and iTunes App Store employs two young innovators. Theodore Felix Leo, 23 singlehandedly built Burpple’s Android app which was featured in the Google Play Store for 9 different major countries around the world. Burpple’s Lee Jun Kit, 26, is meanwhile in-charge of iOS app. Burpple app has been featured on the iTunes App Store numerous times in 14 major countries around the world, including the US. 4. The 25-year old Ryan Rogowski is the CEO of Waygo Translator, an app that instantly translate Chinese characters to English. Ryan worked at an iPhone game development startup and co-created two games in the appstore: Wordlands and Quoth. Wordlands was the top word game in the Hong Kong app store market for six months in 2013. 5. Chiew Ming Hui, 25, graduated from Nanyang Polytechnic with a diploma in Digital Media Design specializing in Games
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Design. He currently pursues a double major bachelor in Psychology and Marketing as part of his interest in understanding the needs and playing habits of a gamer both casual and non casual. Prior to joining Swag Soft, he worked at a start-up focusing on Gamification to learn more about human responses to various game mechanics. 6. Julien Grimault, 26, is an employee number one at TradeHero, a mobile stock market game. He built complete product with the CTO (iOS client and REST API) that went from seed funding to $10M Series A in 13 months. Julien also built TradeHero prototype that raised $500K in seed funding in July 2012. 7. George Rajiv Shivkumar, 28, co-founded Replaid, a mobile app development solution provider. Together with his brother Sanjay Shivkumar, they started a branch office in Taipei in 2012. Their highest profile app was Summon Auntie, which over 200,000plus downloads in Singapore, a proud number considering there are only about 500,000 plus cars on the road. 8. Ng Jingshen, 29, an ex-Amazon S3 engineer is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Paktor, a social networking app. He has transformed MVP state product into 99.95% uptime product and scaled platform from being able to accomodate 10,000 users, to 1 million users. 9-10. Rainmaker labs, the creator of Shop Guru eShops, a mobile shopping and reward app and BLEep, a pocket hardware device that can now receive Bluetooth signals without the requirement for pairing also has two young bright minds - Neo Zhizhong, 29, and Goh Mia Hiang, 24.
Where are Singaporeans headed to this year?
1. Bangkok 2. Hong Kong 3. Jakarta 4. Taipei 5. Manila
6. Bali 7. Kuala Lumpur 8. Phuket 9. Seoul 10. Penang
1. Seoul 2. Taipei 3. Tokyo 4. Bangkok 5. Singapore 6. Osaka 7. London 8. Taichung 9. Kaohsiung 10. Okinawa
1. Hong Kong 2. Beijing 3. Shanghai 4. Chengdu 5. Lijiang
Source: Wego