Ting Soon received the Advanced Diploma in Technology for Electronic Engineering with merit in 2001 from Tunku Abdul Rahman College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and a Master of Science (Communication Systems) in 2002 from the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
He is currently a Lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering, Computing, and Science, Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak.
Before that, he was a full-time lecturer at an institution of higher learning in Kuching.