Jonathan Christopher
Backend Software Engineer at TikTok
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Christopher is a backend software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable microservices and distributed systems from Singapore. He has driven core Go services at Shopee—designing cross-team projects, a long-term architecture revamp, and a Twitter Snowflake-like ID generator—before moving to TikTok to continue backend service development. Jonathan combines hands-on engineering (RPC servers, Kafka consumers, zero-downtime DB migrations) with tooling and CI initiatives that raised reliability and test coverage across teams. A cum laude ITB graduate, he also has experience deploying and operating high-stakes platforms for national events, reflecting a bias for production-ready solutions and operational ownership.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Natural Science (IPA), High School, Natural Science (IPA) at SMAK BPK Penabur Gading SerpongBachelor of Science (S.T.), cum laude, Informatics/Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (S.T.), cum laude, Informatics/Computer Science at Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB)
English, Indonesian
Github Skills (43)
blueprint10
java9
lerna9
typescript9
sass9
react9
sparse8
python8
system8
ui-toolkit8
javascript8
ui-components8
parallelization8
rendering7
react-components7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nathanchrs/pmkdata-api
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 47 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 2 months
apipmk
rayandrews/sliding-window
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 12 pushes in 2 days
reactslidingsliding-windowwindow
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