Summary
Kean Chuah is a pragmatic Lead Engineer with 17+ years of full-stack experience and a decade-plus track record delivering high-performance web and native apps across media, retail, and government sectors. He blends hands-on frontend and backend craft—React/React Native, Next.js, Prisma, GraphQL—with cloud and IoT expertise on AWS and Azure to solve large-scale, real-world problems like national broadcaster occupancy analytics and DRM-enabled VOD playback. Kean excels at improving delivery through test automation, CI/CD, and developer mentoring, having transformed teams to adopt shift-left testing and production-grade monitoring. He’s comfortable moving between roles—devops, professional services, tech lead—and has repeatedly shipped time-sensitive launches (including international rollouts). Kean’s recent focus on AI tooling (Vercel AI, OpenAI, Pinecone) and agentic workflows signals a forward-looking drive to embed intelligence into user experiences. Based in South Korea, he combines entrepreneurial instincts from founding a startup with enterprise-grade execution.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Information Technology Computer Software Engineering at The University of Queensland
IT Accounting Mathematics Mathematics Accounting Information Technology, IT Accounting Mathematics Mathematics Accounting Information Technology at South Australian Matriculation