davidcjw.com

LOCATION: SINGAPORE

STACK: GOLANG · K8S · REACT

[ Software Engineer ]

SG · 2026

DAVID
CHONG

[ Portfolio 2026 ]

Cloud · AI · Full Stack

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Career

Work Experience

From finance to AI to cloud infrastructure — a non-linear journey through tech.

Senior Software Engineer

Shopee

Feb 2024 – Present
  • ›Part of the Cloud Native Colocation team co-locating latency-sensitive workloads using a Kubelet-like agent deployed across 21,000 nodes in 22 Kubernetes clusters
  • ›Creator and maintainer of Global Scheduler — a resource-aware scheduling orchestrator that raised cluster utilisation from ~25% to ~50%
  • ›Team's presentation at KubeCon 2024
KubernetesGolangLinuxReact.js

Senior MLOps Engineer

GoTo Financial (Gojek)

Oct 2021 – Feb 2024
  • ›Maintained Data Science analytics infrastructure — JupyterHub, Airflow, Dask & MLFlow on GKE
  • ›Upgraded infrastructure from single VMs to JupyterHub on GKE with Dask, cutting training cost by ~60%
  • ›Principal contributor and maintainer of the internal Data Science Python library used across the team
  • ›Automated batch and real-time model deployments via Gitlab CI/CD
GKEPythonAirflowMLFlowGitlabDask

AI Engineer

AI Singapore

Nov 2020 – Oct 2021
  • ›Led a team of 3 engineers building a multi-modal content-classification model for a regional AI startup
  • ›Models: DistilUSE v2 (text), ResNet50 (image), Jodel (emoji) — combined via early/late fusion
DockerKubernetesPythonFastAPIW&BDVC

Full Stack AI Engineer (Pro Bono)

Idea Ink Pte Ltd

Sep 2020 – Apr 2022
  • ›Ideated and built a PDF-to-infographic service served via a web application
PythonTypeScriptVue 3AWSFastAPIPostgreSQL

AI Associate Engineer

AI Singapore

Feb 2020 – Nov 2020
  • ›Built an end-to-end Recommender System for a local university library — from scoping to deployment
DockerFastAPIMLFlowPythonGitlab

Data Analyst

Nomura Singapore Limited

Aug 2017 – Jan 2020
  • ›Led process automation and data analytics initiatives using Python and SQL
  • ›Built Power BI and Tableau dashboards to aggregate risk data for data-driven decision-making
PythonSQLPower BITableau

Projects

Portfolio

A few things I've built — from web apps to open-source tools.

P1 Registration Planner

A Google-maps inspired free tool for Singapore parents navigating Primary 1 school registration.

Next.jsTypeScriptReact LeafletFramer MotionAnthropic SDK

The Chronicle

An OSRS-inspired productivity dashboard — journals and quest logs for real-life goals.

Next.jsTailwindElectronExpressmacOS

ToolVault

Free, privacy-first browser tools — convert and compress images, merge PDFs, generate QR codes and more, 100% client-side with zero uploads.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSS

HDB Floor Planner

AI-powered 2D floor-plan editor — upload a floor plan and Claude vision traces the walls, rooms, doors and windows into editable vectors, then drag to-scale furniture over it.

Next.jsTypeScriptKonvaAnthropic SDKSupabase
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