Born in China, and raised in three different countries, Lai is a Software Developer at NCR, Edinburgh. Currently he is involved in Ticketing Platform project, a service that delivers more than 612,000 of airline boarding passes and cinema tickets every day. He predominantly works on iOS and Android code development for the mobile wallet client libraries, which provide the ability to allow for boarding passes to be synchronised to a mobile device to allow offline viewing.
He received his BSc degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Imperial College London in 2011 and has an MSc in Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. After his career at HSL Mobile, Lai decided it was time to cease the long commute and became a member of the NCR Edinburgh team in January 2014. He has been enjoying the diverse and collaborative environment here ever since. In addition, Lai likes to make use of the learning and development opportunities offered by NCR CoDE to learn new technologies.
Outside of computing, Lai likes travelling to different areas around the world and playing table tennis, a hobby which he has enjoyed since the age of 8. He also actively participates in NCR’s weekly football matches.