Grieve Chiu is a pragmatic software engineer with about a decade of experience building backend and hybrid mobile solutions, mainly in Java/Spring Boot and JavaScript frameworks, from Taipei. He has delivered high-quality banking and finance applications, mentored teammates, and repeatedly created automation tools to streamline team workflows. A self-described “clean code worshiper,” he emphasizes readable, well-tested code and contributes to open-source projects—most notably backend fixes for the Ibis Python dataframe project handling tricky DB URL parsing and non-ASCII edge cases. Comfortable across cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), databases, and DevOps tooling, he pairs backend strength with frontend skills in Vue/Angular and hybrid mobile stacks. Outside work he chases side projects like chatbots and automation utilities, reflecting a continual-learning ethos summed up by his motto about rowing upstream.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
control department, control department at National Taichung Industrial High School
Energy and Refrigeration Air Conditioning, Energy and Refrigeration Air Conditioning at National Taipei University of Technology
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 16 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Grieve primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Ibis project. They addressed issues related to database connection URL parsing, specifically handling special characters within passwords for multiple database backends (ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Trino, MySQL, Druid, Oracle, and Exasol). They also focused on ensuring correct port handling and improved MSSQL integration by removing sort keys and handling non-ASCII characters in column names.
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 5 months
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