Glenn Chia
Cloud Engineer at MSD
Singapore
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Top SchoolGlenn Chia is a Cloud Engineer with eight years of experience applying data analytics, machine learning, and cloud-native engineering to build impactful, production-ready systems. He has delivered end-to-end solutions from a deep learning model for detecting common eye diseases to a web portal for physiotherapists and Power BI dashboards that guided carbon reduction strategies. At MSD he focuses on AWS account APIs, full-stack mobile and web apps, CI/CD and cloud auditing, and his open-source work includes contributing GuardDuty support to the widely used hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws and serverless patterns via AWS CDK. A collaborative leader and empathetic listener, Glenn has co-led social-impact initiatives and served as vice director of a 25-person college mental health peer support team. He combines a high attention to detail with a bias for measurable outcomes, and prefers pragmatic automation—evident in performance optimizations that sped a portal’s load time by over 70%. Based in Singapore, he holds a BSc in Business Analytics from NUS and brings both technical depth and user-centered thinking to cloud and data problems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
The YSEALI Academic Fellows Program, Social Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, The YSEALI Academic Fellows Program, Social Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at University of ConnecticutUniversity for Peace (UPEACE) - UN MandatedBachelor of Science - BS, Business Analytics, 4.56/5.00, Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Analytics, 4.56/5.00 at National University of SingaporeSingapore-Cambridge GCE A-Level, Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-Level at Hwa Chong InstitutionNUS Overseas CollegesCollege of Alice & Peter Tan
Github Skills (21)
aws-cdk10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
aws-sdk10
amazon-dynamodb10
terraformer10
infrastructure10
go10
lambdas10
dynamodb10
aws10
lambda10
serverless10
devops10
aws-fargate9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/serverless-patterns
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Serverless patterns. Learn more at the website: https://serverlessland.com/patterns.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:167 commits, 15 PRs, 1 comment in 6 months
Contributions summary:Glenn's primary contributions involved setting up and configuring serverless infrastructure using AWS CDK. They implemented and deployed a DynamoDB table, a TypeScript Lambda function, and integrated these components. The user also configured API Gateway integration and Fargate services. The user demonstrated an understanding of cloud-native development patterns and best practices for serverless applications.
serverless-applicationsserverlessaws-lambdapatternsaws
hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
The AWS Provider enables Terraform to manage AWS resources.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:128 reviews, 729 commits, 106 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Glenn primarily contributed to the development and integration of the GuardDuty service within the Terraform AWS provider. The user added support for GuardDuty SDKv2, including code generation and package updates. They also implemented new features related to malware protection plans and updated existing components. Their work involved modifying schema, implementing read, update, and delete operations, and adding test cases to validate the functionality, demonstrating proficiency in both backend development and DevOps practices.
providerterraform-modulesaws-terraform-providerterraformterraform-provider
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