Jia Chong
Founder at Open Suburb
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolJia Chong is a seasoned data scientist and software engineer with over a decade of experience, currently building data-driven capabilities as founder of Open Suburb in Perth, Australia. Open Suburb delivers data-driven insights on Australian suburbs using Next.js, Supabase, Cloudflare, and Jupyter ETL to help homebuyers and renters choose their ideal neighborhoods. In previous roles at Woodside Energy, she led cross-functional teams to deliver data products—from OCR-based data extraction that saved 2 months of time and 200k AUD, to a maintenance-planning optimization algorithm that slashed planning time from two weeks to 30 minutes, and she improved data pipelines and governance while mentoring three graduates. At INPEX, as Senior Data Decision Scientist, she applied NLP (topic modelling, NER) to HSE free-text data, fine-tuned LLMs to flag notification failures, and used causal inference to study emissions under varying temperatures. She holds a Bachelor of Software Engineering from Taylor's University and a BIT from QUT, and is known for blending software engineering and data science to ship reliable, scalable data products; she continues to drive impact across Australia and beyond from Perth.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT), Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT), Computer Science and Intelligent Systems at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Bachelor of Software Engineering (B.SE.), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering (B.SE.), Software Engineering at Taylor's University
English, Malay, Chinese, Japanese
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Github Skills (37)
git10
github10
patch10
subversion10
mortar10
science9
computer-science9
cpp9
filter8
transformation8
pipeline7
data-transformation6
data-mesh6
webpages6
python6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jiashengc/Demo-Initiative-Database
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
A demo Initiative Database which includes an automatic list and filter function.
Contributions:162 commits, 8 PRs, 160 pushes in 3 months
phpdatabaseinitiativefilter
jiashengc/jiashengc.github.io
Aug 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 88 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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