Derek Chia
Technical Account Manager at ClickHouse
Singapore
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Top SchoolDerek Chia is a Technical Account Manager at ClickHouse with 11 years of experience building data-driven and machine learning solutions across enterprise and government sectors. He brings deep operational knowledge of modern data stacks—from Postgres, ClickHouse and Elasticsearch to feature stores like Feast and model-serving platforms such as Triton—while advising customers on productionizing ML with tools like ClearML, DVC and SageMaker. Previously a Principal Technical Support Engineer and senior software engineer for DSTA, he blends hands-on troubleshooting with strategic account leadership to optimize OLAP and MLOps workflows. Based in Singapore, Derek is currently exploring Chaos Engineering tooling to harden data systems, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability as well as performance.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)Diploma in Electronics Computer and Communication Engineering (with Merit), Diploma in Electronics Computer and Communication Engineering (with Merit) at Singapore PolytechnicSummer School, Summer School at King's College LondonBachelor of Computing Information Systems, Bachelor of Computing Information Systems at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DerekChia/mltagger
Aug 2018 - Dec 2020
Understanding Multi-level tagger
Contributions:117 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 4 months
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DerekChia/clearml-try
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:618 pushes in 2 months
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