Jia Yong
Senior Software Engineer at Thoughtworks
Xi'an, Shaanxi, Singapore
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Top SchoolJia Yong is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently at Thoughtworks in Xi'an and Singapore, blending production-grade engineering with a strong interest in machine learning research. Trained in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at NUS with time in the Silicon Valley NOC program and a stint at Stanford, Jia brings rigorous quantitative thinking to building resilient systems. His career spans startups and large tech employers, from internships at robotics and logistics firms to DevOps work at GovTech and progressive roles at Thoughtworks, showing a pattern of rapid growth and cross-domain impact. He is particularly intrigued by adaptive AI that handles real-world randomness—drawing inspiration from complex game AIs like OpenAI’s Dota projects—and applies that curiosity to practical software delivery. Colleagues would describe him as methodical, research-minded, and comfortable navigating both distributed systems and ML-oriented problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford UniversitySingapore-Cambrige General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (A Levels), Singapore-Cambrige General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (A Levels) at Victoria Junior CollegeNOC Silicon Valley Batch 31, NOC Silicon Valley Batch 31 at NUS Overseas CollegesBachelor's degree Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at National University of Singapore
English, ChineseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jiamaoweilie/first-week
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 4 days
wangdengwu/DoDoDo
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:42 pushes in 17 days
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