Chu Cheah
Chief Technology Officer at Wego.com
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolChu Cheah is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Singapore with 18 years of experience building scalable web and iPhone applications and leading engineering organizations. He has repeatedly driven large rewrites and cloud migrations—most notably moving legacy Java/PHP systems to Ruby on Rails and migrating infrastructure to AWS—while scaling metasearch platforms handling tens of thousands of daily queries. Equally comfortable with hands-on engineering and executive strategy, he has led teams of ~20 across multiple countries and held senior technical roles at Wego and SP Group. An active open-source contributor, his work spans Ruby, Go and JavaScript ecosystems, including improvements to the curb Ruby bindings, go-dockerclient image-building features, and selector parsing fixes in jQuery’s Sizzle. He combines product-minded engineering with pragmatic operations experience (KVM/Xen virtualization to cloud), and also ships consumer-facing iOS apps that have reached top App Store rankings in Singapore. Practical, curious and cross-disciplinary, he blends systems-level architecture with day-to-day delivery and developer coaching.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Science, Science at Tampines Junior CollegeB.Eng (Honours) Computer Engineering, B.Eng (Honours) Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore
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Github Skills (25)
unit-testing10
javascript10
docker10
api-design10
testing10
css-selectors10
http10
libcurl10
dockers10
ruby10
go10
golang10
cookie10
front-end-development9
error-handling9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fsouza/go-dockerclient
Jun 2014 - Sep 2015
Go client for the Docker Engine API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Chu primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `go-dockerclient` library, focused on interacting with the Docker Engine API. Their work included implementing features for image building, such as supporting the `forcerm` and `RawJSONStream` options, and also adding the `ExtraHosts` configuration option. The user also addressed issues related to error handling, specifically addressing unexpected EOF errors during Docker restarts.
golangapigo-clientdocker-engine-apidocker-engine
taf2/curb
Jun 2009 - May 2012
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chu contributed to the `curb` Ruby library, specifically focusing on features related to HTTP requests and cookie management. They implemented the ability to set cookies via a string and read them from a file, mirroring functionality of the underlying libcurl library. The user also addressed issues in multi-threaded request handling and added tests to ensure the correct behavior. The commits involved modifications to both the core library code and the associated test suite.
libcurlruby-bindingsruby
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