Desmond Chin
Back End Engineer at Cybozu, Inc.
Kawasaki, Japan
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Top SchoolDesmond Chin is a pragmatic back-end engineer based in Kawasaki, Japan, with 8 years of experience building and scaling web services from early concept to monetised products. He specializes in Go, TypeScript, React, MySQL, Kubernetes and GCP, and has led tech-stack decisions and engineering practices as a founding engineer at Gojiberry. Desmond brings hands-on operational experience—setting up observability with Prometheus, applying TDD and pair programming, and mentoring small teams—to ensure reliability in production. Comfortable in both English and Japanese (JLPT N1), he has a systems engineering background and a habit of improving workflows and developer experience wherever he works. A former ERP and web developer, he blends enterprise-grade discipline with startup speed and product-focused engineering.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Systems Engineering, Second Class Honours, Upper Division, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Systems Engineering, Second Class Honours, Upper Division at Loughborough UniversityA level, Mathematics, A*AA, A level, Mathematics, A*AA at Maktab Duli PMAMBFull Stack Web Developer Nanodegree, Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree at UdacityO Level, 5A 1B 3C, O Level, 5A 1B 3C at Chung Hwa Middle School, BSB, Brunei
Japanese, English, Malay, Chinese
Github Skills (198)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
dsychin/covid19brunei
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Brunei COVID-19 Tracker
Contributions:137 commits, 89 PRs, 85 pushes in 18 days
bruneireacttracker
B-Open/jobalert
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
An easier way to search for jobs by Bruneians for Bruneians.
Contributions:6 reviews, 83 commits, 29 PRs in 3 months
dotnetdockermysqljobs
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