Aaron Chong
Senior Software Engineer at Airwallex
Singapore
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Top SchoolAaron Chong is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, secure backend systems for high-throughput payment platforms and enterprise workflow services. Currently a core platform engineer at Airwallex, he designs orchestration and serverless workflow solutions (Temporal, PostgreSQL) to support complex, large-scale operations. Previously at Shopee he led multiple ShopeePay teams, drove capacity planning for major campaigns, and formalized code quality and best-practice programs that improved system reliability for millions of daily transactions. An active open-source contributor and top Stack Overflow answerer in Singapore, Aaron has a strong track record across .NET and DevOps ecosystems—contributing to ASP.NET Boilerplate, Travis cookbooks, and cross-cutting EF Core enhancements. He pairs hands-on implementation with technical leadership and mentoring, and often surfaces subtle systems-level improvements that reduce operational risk and technical debt.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing (B.Comp.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing (B.Comp.) Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (46)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
aspnetboilerplate/aspnetboilerplate
Jun 2017 - Mar 2022
ASP.NET Boilerplate - Web Application Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 288 commits, 76 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the backend aspects of the ASP.NET Boilerplate framework. Their work involved fixing issues related to AutoMapper, implementing core logic for roles and permissions, and adding and implementing a new project, `Abp.Web.SignalR.AspNetCore`, to integrate with SignalR for real-time notifications. They also corrected documentation and added features for entity history and related database operations.
web-applicationwcfc-sharpnlayer-architecturedomain-driven-design
aspnetboilerplate/module-zero-core-template
Jun 2017 - Feb 2020
ASP.NET Core MVC / Angular Startup Project For ASP.NET Boilerplate
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 30 PRs, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on enhancing the ASP.NET Core MVC / Angular startup project. Their contributions involved fixing issues related to tenancy name references, adding and integrating Swagger authentication helpers for API documentation, and updating the Font Awesome library. They also standardized HTML attribute orders, fixed localization keys, and added SignalR client-side functionality, indicating a focus on both backend and frontend aspects of the application.
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