Senior Officer (Central Bank Digital Currency)
Jiaju He is a Senior Officer (Central Bank Digital Currency) at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), a position he has held since June 2024. His role is focused specifically on central bank digital currency, reflecting the HKMA's ongoing work in that area.
Prior to joining the HKMA, He served as Senior Specialist in Solution Development at Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Limited (HKICL) from July 2022 to June 2024, where he was responsible for the development of FinTech initiatives. His technical work there spanned Hyperledger Fabric, GraphQL, TypeScript, Python, Java Spring Boot, microservices architecture, OAuth2.0, Docker, and related tooling. Before HKICL, he spent approximately four and a half years at Learning Technologies Group, progressing from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer in its Engineering and Technical function. Earlier in his career, he held IT roles at The University of Hong Kong, serving first as Senior IT Assistant (Programmer) and then as IT Officer (Analyst Programmer) between June 2014 and July 2017. His total professional experience spans approximately eleven years.
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