I'm Wan Leung Wong — a technologist, creator and lifelong learner based in London.
I was born and raised in Hong Kong and first came to London in 2002 to study Computer Science. Technology became my profession, but curiosity has always been the thread connecting the different parts of my life.
For more than two decades, I have worked across software engineering, cloud systems, mobile applications, AI, IoT and system architecture. I have built products, led engineering teams, advised projects, founded a software company, contributed to open-source communities, and worked on Chinese input method technologies.
What has stayed with me through all of those changes is a belief that technology is an instrument, not an identity. Good technology should help people do something meaningful; it should never become the meaning itself.
Outside engineering, much of my life revolves around music, photography, astronomy and writing.
I photograph the streets of London because ordinary moments are easy to overlook. I look at the night sky because astronomy reminds me how small we are — and how remarkable it is that we are here at all. I write music and stories because some experiences are better understood through creation than explanation.
In recent years, AI has become another creative and technical tool in that journey. I use it to explore new ways of building software, making music and organising ideas, but I remain interested in the human decisions behind the technology: responsibility, judgement, curiosity and purpose.
This website began many years ago as a place to record technical projects and things I was learning. Today, it has become something broader.
It is my digital home — a continuing archive of software, music, photography, astronomy, writing, experiments, memories and lessons gathered along the way.
They may look like different interests, but to me they are all expressions of the same curiosity:
How does the world work?
What can we create?
And how can we leave it, even slightly, better than we found it?
I don't have all the answers.
I'm still learning.
I'm still building.
I'm still looking at the stars.
Build honestly. Create patiently. Leave the world slightly better than you found it.