Benny Chew
Principal DevOps Engineer at Adslot
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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Top SchoolBenny Chew is a Principal DevOps Engineer based in Greater Melbourne with 13 years of experience designing highly available, scalable systems and delivery pipelines—primarily in AWS. He has grown through hands-on roles at Adslot from software engineer to principal, leading infrastructure, CI/CD, and operations engineering across diverse stacks including Java, .NET, Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB and Redis. Benny combines systems architecture with practical tooling: his open-source dynamodump contributions show attention to resilient backup/restore flows and local testing patterns for DynamoDB. He’s experienced in online advertising platforms and high-throughput environments, with a track record of automating reliability and performance at every layer. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex reliability requirements into maintainable, production-ready solutions while keeping an eye for operational edge cases.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science & Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, BSc Computer Science & Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science at Swinburne University of Technology
English, Malay
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Github Skills (13)
amazon-dynamodb10
backup10
boto10
dynamodb10
aws10
python10
logging9
argparse9
threaded8
json8
multithreading8
thread8
hyper-threading8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bchew/dynamodump
Nov 2013 - Dec 2022
Simple backup and restore for Amazon DynamoDB using AWS SDK for Python (boto3)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 194 reviews, 145 commits in 9 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Benny primarily contributed to the core functionality of the DynamoDB backup and restore tool. They implemented features for handling unprocessed items during batch writes, supporting local DynamoDB instances, and enabling the use of different destination table names. The user also added functionality for wildcard prefix backups, allowing for more flexible table selection during backup and restore operations. Further contributions include refactoring and optimizations for better performance and code maintainability.
pythonamazonamazon-dynamodbrestoreaws-sdk
Adslot/trello-backup
Sep 2016 - Jan 2019
A simple python script to enable JSON backups of all accessible Trello boards.
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
pythonaccessiblepython-scriptrestorepython3
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