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Harton Wong shared thisLATE NIGHT CRUNCH IN THE DARK 💡 A power outage turned my workspace pitch black during a late night push to prepare a critical customer walkthrough. Powered by only a glowing laptop screen, I pushed through to ensure our prep was complete. Moments like that highlight why we built TAbot. Finance professionals frequently face intense late night pressure while manually reviewing technical accounting documents and complex contracts. Unexpected obstacles should not lead to exhaustion or errors. Technology must empower accountants to handle critical tasks efficiently. AI is not designed to replace human expertise. It exists to shoulder the heavy manual lifting so finance teams can focus on strategic execution without burning the midnight oil. #TAbot #AI #Accounting #FinanceTransformation #FinTech
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Harton Wong shared thisThe AI Trap Most Accounting Leaders Fall For Every firm is rushing to adopt AI, but few are talking about the hidden costs. When you implement generic AI tools without audit-ready controls, you do not save time. You just shift the burden from manual labor to endless verification. While filming my upcoming Miles Masterclass, I broke down the exact framework we use at TAbot to avoid these adoption traps. We explored the five tests for true audit-ready AI, why AI will empower accountants instead of replacing them, and how the future of finance relies on human-in-the-loop systems. Building TAbot taught us that automation must handle complex, technical accounting tasks without forcing teams to double-check every output. AI should relieve burnout, not create new review headaches. Stay tuned. The masterclass goes live soon, and I will share the link as soon as it drops. In the meantime, look at your current stack: is your AI actually saving time, or is it just creating extra work? #TAbot #AI #Accounting #FinanceTransformation #FinTech #AccountingTech #MilesMasterclass #FutureOfWork
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Harton Wong shared thisHEADLINE: AI GOING ROGUE VERSUS AI GOING TO WORK 🚀 I just read an incredible piece on TechSpot about AI agents hijacking a German wiki to plot a sandbox escape. It sounds like science fiction. But for those of us building real-world solutions, it is a stark reminder about the importance of purpose-built AI. At TAbot, we are automating manual contract review and technical accounting. Our mission is bridging the gap between traditional accounting and AI. We do not build general agents that wander the web. We build highly focused, secure tools designed to do one thing exceptionally well: empowering accountants. When accountants hear about rogue AI, they rightly worry about data security and accuracy. What I have learned building TAbot is that enterprise AI must be restricted by design. Our models stay in their lane so your financial data stays safe. Key Takeaways: Unconstrained AI creates risks. Focused AI creates leverage. We are here to eliminate burnout, not replace your team. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/e3WskRnH #TAbot #AI #Accounting #FinanceTransformation #FinTechResearchers uncovered AI agents that hijacked a German wiki to discuss how to escape their sandboxResearchers uncovered AI agents that hijacked a German wiki to discuss how to escape their sandbox
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Harton Wong shared thisSTOP RECREATING YOUR TECHNICAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH When accountants research complex standards or analyze contracts, they generate invaluable insights. The issue is that those answers get buried in past threads, forcing teams to duplicate work. Building TAbot taught us that empowering accountants means giving them instant access to their collective intelligence. Today, we launched cross-conversation search to fix this. Now, every technical memo and contract breakdown you have created in TAbot is searchable in seconds. https://lnkd.in/eMfAe6bi This is not about replacing human expertise. It is about making sure past work accelerates future work, reducing fatigue and boosting accuracy across your team. Key takeaway: Your firm history is your greatest superpower when it is searchable. Explore how TAbot transforms your workflow at www.tabot.info #TAbot #AI #Accounting #FinanceTransformation #FinTech
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Harton Wong shared thisWE UPGRADED BIG 4 GUIDANCE IN TABOT Listening to user feedback is the fastest way to build great software. A while ago, our users asked for direct Big 4 firm quotes inside our automated contract and technical accounting reviews. We initially launched a raw preview version. It was helpful, but we knew it could be much cleaner. Today, I am excited to share that we have completely redesigned how Big 4 guidance is presented in TAbot. Technical accounting should not feel like digging through messy research documents. By presenting citations like KPMG SaaS handbook guidance directly alongside ASC 606 rules in a sleek UI, we give accounting teams total clarity and speed. Our goal is never to replace accountants. It is to supercharge them with accurate, beautifully organized technical insights so they can focus on strategic decisions. Try out the upgraded experience today at www.tabot.info. #TAbot #AI #Accounting #FinanceTransformation #FinTech
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Harton Wong shared thisA few frames from the set. Genuinely fun day. Good crew, sharp questions, and more laughs than you would expect from a course on applying AI in accounting. The through line was serious, though. AI isn’t coming for an accountant’s judgment. It’s helping make the work behind that judgment more trustworthy. In accounting, AI's value isn’t simply getting to a confident answer faster. It’s having a robust process that is accurate, consistent, and reliable enough that you can stand behind the findings and conclusion. That distinction matters. The goal isn’t to automate judgment. It’s to give professionals a stronger foundation for exercising it. More on that soon in my Miles Masterclass, “The Day Ctrl+F Met Its Match with TAbot.” #TAbot #AI #Accounting #FinanceTransformation #FinTech #AccountingTech #MilesMasterclass #FutureOfWork
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Harton Wong shared thisVibe coding looks great until the foundation collapses. Lately everyone is talking about vibe coding. It lets you build fast, but without guardrails, it only creates the illusion of accuracy. On the surface, the output looks right. Underneath, it lacks consistency checks, a structural harness, and reliable logic. In technical accounting and contract review, vibes do not cut it. An AI that is mostly right is actually a liability for financial teams. When we built TAbot, we rejected the vibe approach. We engineered strict accounting guardrails, automated verification harnesses, and continuous logic checks directly into the platform. Our goal is not to replace accountants with probabilistic guesses. It is to empower finance leaders with bulletproof accuracy. We give team members engineered confidence so they can eliminate manual review, stop burnout, and trust the results every single time. True AI transformation requires an engineered foundation, not just good vibes. Feel free to DM if you want to know more tips in applying AI for accounting teams. #TAbot #AI #Accounting #FinanceTransformation #FinTech
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Harton Wong shared thisOrganization in AI Workflows Just Hit a Major Milestone! 🚀 When we started building TAbot, our mission was clear: eliminate manual contract review and empower accountants to focus on strategic, high-value work. As our community has grown, your technical AI conversation lists have exploded! Digging through hundreds of chats to find critical accounting research is exhausting. That is why I am thrilled to launch Project Folders inside TAbot! You can now drag, drop, and organize your technical discussions by client, engagement, or contract type in seconds. AI is only as powerful as your ability to retrieve insights quickly. By removing operational clutter, we are giving finance teams back their precious time and preventing workflow burnout. We are building the future of finance together, and it starts with intelligent structure. Organize your workspace today at www.tabot.info #TAbot #AI #Accounting #FinanceTransformation #FinTech
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Harton Wong shared thisLove the phrase "A Convincing Answer Isn’t Necessarily A Trusted Answer". Another great post about Build vs Buy from a CFO's perspectiveHarton Wong shared this“99% accuracy is zero percent trust" if you can't explain the other 1%. That's the line I keep coming back to when I think about AI in finance. A convincing answer isn't the same as a trusted one — and in a board deck, that difference matters. I wrote for Forbes about how CFOs should actually think about build vs. buy: it's less about technical capability and more about ownership, governance, and whether you can trace every output back to its source. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/en-BYH9J
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Harton Wong liked thisHarton Wong liked thisWe are hiring! 🚀 We are looking for an AI-pilled Order-to-Cash Operations leader to take our OTC engine to the next level. You will be plugged into every step of the journey from quote to cash, and you'll own our billing operations and revenue accounting strategy across our products. This is a builders role. You will get into the weeds, ship real transformations, and partner closely with GTM, Product, Engineering, and Finance. If you want to build the future of finance ops, this is for you. 👉 Apply below or DM me! https://lnkd.in/gYDPFxMJ
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Harton Wong liked thisHarton Wong liked thisI’m excited to share that I’ve started a new chapter at Santa Clara University as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Finance and Faculty Director of Real Estate. A major goal of mine is to bring more real-world experience directly into the classroom. If you’re a real estate, finance, or business leader interested in coming into the classroom to share your experience with students, or a startup founder interested in having your company featured in a class discussion, project, or case, I’d love to connect. I’m looking forward to creating more opportunities for students to learn directly from the people building, investing, operating, and leading in the real world.
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Harton Wong liked thisHarton Wong liked thisWhat most Fractional CFOs & Accountants do and it's costing them clients. They get a lead or referral. Get on a Zoom call. Ask a bunch of questions. Explain what a Fractional CFO does. Then pitch the monthly retainer. $2K. $5K. Maybe $8K a month. With no end date. To someone who met them 45 minutes ago. Then they hear… …Need to think about it …Too expensive …talk to my wife …My business partner …Let's revisit …Send me a proposal …or they go quiet. Here's why. Owners can't judge a CFO until they've worked with one. They don't know what month one or month six looks like. You're asking them to commit anyway. That's not a pricing problem. It's a risk problem. They're not saying no to you. They're saying no to an open-ended bet on a stranger. The fix? Take the risk off the table. Don't sell the retainer first. Sell a Mini-CFO Offer™. One expensive problem, one defined outcome, tight scope, clear finish line. Real life examples… A 90-day cash flow fix for a contractor who's profitable on paper but can't make payroll. A pricing and margin overhaul for an agency growing revenue but not profit. A lender-ready financial package for an owner who needs a line of credit. $10K, maybe in a few payments, and they know exactly what they're buying. Less than 6-12 months of retainer. A much easier decision. A specific offer is also easier to refer. Nobody refers a friend to "Fractional CFO services." But they'll refer an owner who can't make payroll to someone who fixes cash flow in 90 days. That's how one clear offer brings new clients, not just existing ones. The idea is the easy part. Packaging it so an owner says yes at $10K is where most get stuck. Get it right, and something happens no discovery call can create. They watch how you think. They see you find the problem, fix it, and explain it in plain English. By the end, they're asking how to keep you around. Now the math. Months one and two, you're building it. Call it 3 engagements. $30K. High-profit. From month three, 3 a month at $10K. That's 33 engagements in year one. $330K. High-profit. Roughly 3 in 10 go monthly at $5K. You finish year one with about 10 retainers. Year one lands around $525K, and you walk into year two with $600K recurring. Year two: 36 more engagements, $360K on top of the $600K. That's the $1M CFO firm. Don't want a $1M firm? Divide by 2. Run by three people: you, one CFO advisor, and someone on admin/ops. No office. No partners. No 10-20 person practice. And it all starts with engagement #1. In my live workshop, we'll install your $10K-$50K Mini-CFO Offer™ together. I'll show you how to sell it to your first or next 3 clients… …and turn the right ones into $2K-$10K/month Fractional CFO clients. Then rinse and repeat with the same offer again & again. Run an accounting or bookkeeping firm? Start with your existing clients. Comment or DM me "WORKSHOP" and I'll send you the details.
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Harton Wong liked thisStrategic Finance Manager role at an exciting company!
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Harton Wong liked thisLATE NIGHT CRUNCH IN THE DARK 💡 A power outage turned my workspace pitch black during a late night push to prepare a critical customer walkthrough. Powered by only a glowing laptop screen, I pushed through to ensure our prep was complete. Moments like that highlight why we built TAbot. Finance professionals frequently face intense late night pressure while manually reviewing technical accounting documents and complex contracts. Unexpected obstacles should not lead to exhaustion or errors. Technology must empower accountants to handle critical tasks efficiently. AI is not designed to replace human expertise. It exists to shoulder the heavy manual lifting so finance teams can focus on strategic execution without burning the midnight oil. #TAbot #AI #Accounting #FinanceTransformation #FinTech
Experience & Education
Licenses & Certifications
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Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification
DeepLearning.AI, Stanford University
Courses
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Advanced Engineering Design Projects Projects
IGEN 430
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Applied Electronics and Electromechanics
EECE 365
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Co-operative Work Placement Supervised
APSC 310
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Digital Systems Design
EECE 353
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Engineering Measurements and Instrumentation
MECH 368
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Entrepreneurship Business Skill
APSC 498M
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Principle of Organizational Behaviour
COMM 329
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Sensors and Actuators in Microsystems
EECE 310
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Software Engineering
EECE 310
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Systems and Control
EECE 360
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Technical Communication
APSC 201
Projects
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Unity Game Development
See project• Used various design patterns, such as singleton (for game manager) and template method, to improve the game efficiency.
• Utilized HashID and Tag C# script to store string to avoid developers’ typos.
• Went beyond what was taught in the Unity tutorial, added extra features such as MedKit and jumping action to Survival Shooters game and new enemies that will actively shoot the player in Space Shooter game. -
JPacman on Github
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• Used Github for version control, bug documentation, project planning and progress monitoring.
• Understood the JPacman architecture in order to design the UML diagram for the new “undo” feature.
• Wrote various test cases, including acceptance tests, unit tests using Junit and Maven and checked the test coverage using EclEmma plugin under Agile (Scrum) and Test Driven Development (TDD) software development methods.
• Refactored the software system by removing long methods…• Used Github for version control, bug documentation, project planning and progress monitoring.
• Understood the JPacman architecture in order to design the UML diagram for the new “undo” feature.
• Wrote various test cases, including acceptance tests, unit tests using Junit and Maven and checked the test coverage using EclEmma plugin under Agile (Scrum) and Test Driven Development (TDD) software development methods.
• Refactored the software system by removing long methods, unnecessary dependencies…etc.Other creators -
“Wii controller” for Street Fighter style game
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• Employed Visual C# language to constantly retrieve 3-axis acceleration data from a microprocessor (i.e. the “Wii controller”) on a PCB at a rate of 100Hz to the PC via a USB serial port.
• Developed a state machine to recognize the acceleration gestures by the user in order to generate punch and kick combinations on the display.
• Created a GUI to display and store data in a user-friendly manner.
• Designed the game to be sufficiently defensive to avoid crashes when users act…• Employed Visual C# language to constantly retrieve 3-axis acceleration data from a microprocessor (i.e. the “Wii controller”) on a PCB at a rate of 100Hz to the PC via a USB serial port.
• Developed a state machine to recognize the acceleration gestures by the user in order to generate punch and kick combinations on the display.
• Created a GUI to display and store data in a user-friendly manner.
• Designed the game to be sufficiently defensive to avoid crashes when users act unexpectedly.
• Debugged technical issues such as coding exception, index outside the array bound and more.
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Digital Systems Design(EECE 353)
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• Designed test cases for developed hardware system to execute the test benches to confirm the functionality of the system.
• Specified, modeled, and simulate hardware using hardware description languages HDLs.
• Self-motivated to learn the VHDLs independently prior this advance hardware programming course, and such initiative resulted a perfect score of 100% for this course.
• Collaborated and communicated with teammates effectively to design the hardware system that meet the…• Designed test cases for developed hardware system to execute the test benches to confirm the functionality of the system.
• Specified, modeled, and simulate hardware using hardware description languages HDLs.
• Self-motivated to learn the VHDLs independently prior this advance hardware programming course, and such initiative resulted a perfect score of 100% for this course.
• Collaborated and communicated with teammates effectively to design the hardware system that meet the specification, and such effort resulted full marks for every laboratory assignment.Other creators -
Driver Safety Feedback
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• Developed a follow distance sensor and analysis methodology to give drivers feedback regarding trip safety performance.
• Utilized Radar, GPS, Arduino, and Android, a complete measurement, analysis and feedback system is being developed. Microscopic transportation analysis is being used to develop the safety performance of the driver.Other creatorsSee project -
Head Mounted Display
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• Designed a head mounted, transparent display that superimposed a computer image over the user's field of view.
• Designed the prototype of the mounting mechanism using SolidWork and produced technical CAD drawings for 3D printing.
Contacted 3D printing company to 3D print different parts of the prototype and assembled various parts together using heavy tools equipments, such as automatic filer and electric saw.
• Tested the prototype of the device by setting up test plans and test…• Designed a head mounted, transparent display that superimposed a computer image over the user's field of view.
• Designed the prototype of the mounting mechanism using SolidWork and produced technical CAD drawings for 3D printing.
Contacted 3D printing company to 3D print different parts of the prototype and assembled various parts together using heavy tools equipments, such as automatic filer and electric saw.
• Tested the prototype of the device by setting up test plans and test procedure. When unexpected results are observed, examined the situation by isolating into subsystems to systematically identify the error.
Resolved conflicts through voting among teammates and ranking all the possible design options for the project.Other creators -
Universal Noodle Cooker
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• Developed an automated noodle cooker that allow users to input cooking time and heat up noodles at designated time with a mini turbine to loosen up the instant noodles.
• Designed the timer and display circuit such that the cooker continuously displaying the remaining cooking time on LED displays.
• Programmed with C++ language to the micro-controller, Arduino, such that the noodle cooker automatically conducts the required task at a designated time.
• Took initiative to learn…• Developed an automated noodle cooker that allow users to input cooking time and heat up noodles at designated time with a mini turbine to loosen up the instant noodles.
• Designed the timer and display circuit such that the cooker continuously displaying the remaining cooking time on LED displays.
• Programmed with C++ language to the micro-controller, Arduino, such that the noodle cooker automatically conducts the required task at a designated time.
• Took initiative to learn Arduino programming language by watching tutorial video online and working with the Arduino project suggested by the tutorials.
• Conducted research online about Arduino programming and some Arduino projects that are related to this project, resulting the use of advanced techniques such as multiplexing with LED display and serial display.Other creators
Honors & Awards
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Spot Bonus
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Dev Day Champion
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Best Innovation Award
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Graduated with Distinction
UBC
Achieves an overall average of at least 80% on all 200-level and higher courses while registered in the B.A.Sc. program.
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Dean's Honour List
UBC
Students in any Winter Session with a sessional average of at least 80% while taking 30 or more credits will receive the notation 'Dean's Honour List' on their record.
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Thomas Beeching Scholarship
UBC
Scholarships totalling $15,800 are made to engineering students on the recommendation of the Faculty of Applied Science
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Big Check Award
Southwestern Advantage
Earning a savings check for over $10,000 for the summer.
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Gold Seal Gold Award
Southwester Advantage
Working over 80 hours every week for 4 months
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I Wanna Win Award
Southwestern Advantage
Award for having the best sales weeks in the last two weeks of summer.
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Top First Year Dealer
Southwestern Advantage
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Dean's Honour List
UBC
Students in any Winter Session with a sessional average of at least 80% while taking 30 or more credits will receive the notation 'Dean's Honour List' on their record.
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President’s Entrance Scholarship
UBC
President’s Entrance Scholarship, The University of British Columbia: University of British Columbia (UBC) recognizes high school and post-secondary students for academic excellence through the President's Entrance Scholarships (PES). $4000 is awarded by maintaining an 95% average grade in English 12, Math 12, Physics 12, and Chemistry 12 for students entering the University.
Languages
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Cantonese
Native or bilingual proficiency
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Mandarian
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Korean
Elementary proficiency
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Nikki Adamson
Series A hits different these days - and you can feel it most on the GTM hiring side. A [mere 😜] year ago, the path looked like: • Idea + scrappy MVP • Validate → iterate → “hey, maybe this is PMF?” • Raise a Series A • Bring in a founding AE to help you find PMF • Hit real PMF → raise a Series B to scale But now? Teams are grinding toward one clear, undeniable application of PMF before raising their Series A, often with a founder led sales motion. This completely changes the GTM hiring plan. The founding AE isn’t an explorer anymore, they’re a builder. Someone who can take an early, working motion and turn it into something repeatable without losing the scrappiness that got it there. All with a more accurately forecasted compensation plan too! 🤑 Curious how others are experiencing this shift?!
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