Welcome to my home page!

I’m Yii Kuo Chong / 俞國忠 (call me Brandon), and this is a website where I publish my thoughts and knowledge on web and android development, + some other random tech related topics like reverse engineering.

My experience with job hunting in Singapore as a Software Engineer

It’s a dream of a lot of Malaysians to find work in Singapore - mostly due to the 3.5 exchange rate, and I was one of those people. So equipped with 3 years of software development experience, and freshly out of university I went hunting for a job in Singapore for about 4 months. Here are my experience. TLDR: As of March 2025, the Singaporean tech market is really hard to get into, even for locals....

March 16, 2025 · 7 min · Yii Kuo Chong / 俞國忠

Reverse Engineering Hi-Hive Community

During COVID-19, my university (UTAR) debuted an attendance tracking called Hi-Hive Community. A lecturer would present a QR code, and the students will scan it to take attendance. After using the application for a few years, I noticed that it was too bloated with unnecessary features, it’s not very responsive, and important items are buried in unending levels of menus. Thus, I have the idea of rebuilding the application using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and more modern UI frameworks....

September 9, 2024 · 6 min · Yii Kuo Chong / 俞國忠