David Chong

Software Engineer at Shopee

Singapore

About

My career in a nutshell: Finance -> AI Engineer -> MLOps -> SWE I’m a self-taught software engineer who’s passionate about building products with real-world impact. Portfolio: Medium: https://medium.com/@davidcjw Blog: davidcjw.github.io Webpage: davidcjw.com Skills: I’ve done everything from traditional frontend/backend to building ML models to now building cloud native infrastructure. Contact me at davidcjw[at]gmail.com

Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer at Shopee
    Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Cloud Native Engineer, Engineering Infrastructure (Platform Engineering) Optimizing Shopee’s physical machine resources via node-level colocation (K8s)

  • GoTo Group (Full-time · 2 yrs 6 mos)
    • Senior Machine Learning Engineer
      Apr 2023 - Feb 2024 · 11 mos

    • Machine Learning Engineer
      Sep 2021 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Building infra for batch and real-time ML at GoTo Financial (formerly known as Gojek)

  • AI Singapore (Full-time · 1 yr 8 mos)
    • AI Engineer
      Nov 2020 - Sep 2021 · 11 mos

      Content Classification in the digital marketing space for a startup 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸: Docker, Kubernetes, Python, RabbitMQ, Gitlab, W&B, DVC, Polyaxon

    • Associate AI Engineer
      Feb 2020 - Nov 2020 · 10 mos

      Recommender system for a local university library 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸: Docker, CentOS VM, FastAPI, Gitlab, MLFlow, Python, Polyaxon

  • Nomura (Singapore)
    • Private Banking Risk, Data Analyst
      Mar 2019 - Jan 2020 · 11 mos

      ➤ Automated reporting using Power BI for Senior Management and various risk stakeholders, creating time save and providing insights to Wealth Management business' risk profile ➤ Proficient in querying data with SQL, data cleansing, aggregation and analysing complex datasets using Python 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸: Python, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Excel VBA

    • Operations Risk, Data Analyst
      Jun 2018 - Feb 2019 · 9 mos

      ➤ Created a Risk Aggregation Dashboard for AEJ Operations Risk Managers and Management using Power BI, enabling data-driven decision making

    • Finance Product Control, Data Analyst
      Sep 2017 - May 2018 · 9 mos

      Corporate Graduate Program with rotations across Finance (Product Control), Operations (Risk and Control) and Risk (WMD Risk) Spearheaded automation initiatives across AEJ Finance using RPA (UiPath) and Data Visualisation software (Tableau, Power BI)