Singapore
Hi, I'm Alistair. I love solving puzzles, problems and exploring the newest and latest technologies and ideas out in the world today
Developer on the Execution Services team. Working on delivering better liquidity with our dark pool aggregation
Backend Software Engineer in the Distributed Storage Team - HDFS Core Developer in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) team, which manages upwards of 40EB of data, with a focus on high availability and I/O optimization. We serve as the primary storage for multiple Applied Machine Learning, Data and TikTok E-Commerce teams globally.
Backend Software Engineer in Garena live stream platform, Booyah. Developed a brand new messaging service for the Booyah! livestreaming app. Able to take around max 16k QPS per chat group (hot partition), and 1M concurrent users in a chat group. Made with Go, Redis and ScyllaDB. Developed dashboard, metrics, logs and tracing (telemetry) for our messaging service in Booyah! for all engineers using Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch and Jaeger.
Intern in the Data Engineering, Execution and Production (DEEP) team. - Worked on recommendations filter logic and design. Written in Go. - Worked on data filtering with Hadoop MapReduce.
Interned in Mile Zero Backend and Infrastructure Teams. - Worked on optimizing MySQL DB migrations using gh-ost - Worked on using ProxySQL for load balancing of MySQL DB instances