Goh Wen
Staff Software Engineer at ExpressVPN
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolGoh Wen is a Staff Software Engineer based in Singapore with 12 years of practical engineering experience spanning backend systems, blockchain security, and product-led full-stack delivery. He has led greenfield projects to fast adoption (ShopBack FOMO reached 30k weekly users) and co-founded a consumer-facing service with a Telegram bot and analytics tools that scaled to 4,000 daily users and 100,000-channel reach. Technically fluent in Rust, TypeScript, Kubernetes and distributed systems, he has implemented secure enclave integrations for Bitcoin, Solana and EVM chains and maintained a fork of Bitcoin Dev Kit to add altcoin support. At Crypto.com and TikTok he focused on backend and security engineering, and now drives platform work at ExpressVPN as a staff engineer. An active open-source contributor, his Rust work on telegram-rs expanded inline query and bot command capabilities, showing attention to developer ergonomics and protocol features. He combines product-minded engineering with hands-on systems security and a track record of shipping measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
NOC Silicon Valley, NOC Silicon Valley at Stanford UniversityDiploma Chemical Engineering, Diploma Chemical Engineering at Singapore PolytechnicNOC Silicon Valley (NCSV34), NOC Silicon Valley (NCSV34) at NUS Overseas CollegesBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (11)
telegram-bot-api10
data-serialization10
rust10
io10
serialization10
api-design9
async9
asynchronous9
markdown-it8
markdown8
keyboard8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
telegram-rs/telegram-bot
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
Rust Library for creating a Telegram Bot
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Goh primarily contributed to the `telegram-bot` repository by adding and modifying structures related to inline query results and bot commands. Their commits involved adding new types and fields within the `InlineQueryResult` enum and related structs. They also updated the code to use `InlineKeyboardMarkup` in place of `ReplyMarkup` and implemented features like `MarkdownV2` parsing and functionalities such as `SwitchInlineQuery` within button options, demonstrating a focus on expanding the bot's capabilities.
telegram-botrust-libraryrustbottelegram
goweiwen/main
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:50 pushes, 26 branches in 1 month
javaaddresssample-applicationaddress-book
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