Daniel Chong
Snr React Front End Engineer at ClearPoint
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Chong is a senior React front-end engineer with 15 years of full‑stack experience, currently building mobile and web experiences for Meridian and Powershop from New Zealand. He blends front-end, mobile, and backend expertise—having shipped React Native boilerplates and localization work in notable open-source projects like Ignite—with a strong track record in event-driven microservices and production mobile apps serving thousands daily. Recently he led development of AI-augmented digital human tooling, integrating OpenAI Agent SDKs, Supabase, and real-time in-call editing to tackle measurable product drop-off points. A pragmatic adopter of AI dev tools (Cursor, Copilot, Bugbot), he focuses on accelerating engineering workflows and sharing those practices with teams. His background in physics and medical imaging research informs a data-driven, experimental approach to product engineering and system reliability.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Physics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Physics at University of CanterburyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Health/Medical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Health/Medical Physics at Universität Bernchmsno1
English, Chinese, German, Malay
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Github Skills (8)
javascript10
boilerplate10
react-native10
mobile-development10
react10
ui-components9
cli9
generator7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
infinitered/ignite
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Infinite Red's battle-tested React Native project boilerplate, along with a CLI, component/model generators, and more! 9 years of continuous development and counting.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 8 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the React Native project boilerplate, focusing on localization and UI component adjustments. Their work involved integrating internationalization (I18n) support, modifying existing UI components, and updating the navigation structure. They also removed static proptypes and replaced them with class proptypes.
reactboilerplatemstreact-nativebattle
hiaw/rn-translate-template
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 3 months
internationalizationi18n
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