Loong Chow
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Debian
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolLoong Chow is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 17 years’ experience building reliable, low-level and backend systems, currently driving engineering at Nektar.ai from Singapore. He is fluent in Python, C/C++, shell scripting and Debian packaging, and has deep experience with Linux administration and production reliability. At Zendesk he led infrastructure initiatives—Dockerizing services, moving to Kubernetes, and implementing resilient memcached and DB pooling—that reduced operational friction and enabled large-scale platform consolidation. As a long-time Debian and Ubuntu maintainer and contributor, he brings rare packaging and distribution expertise that complements his service engineering work. His open-source contributions include bug fixes and features for the well-known Slic3r 3D print toolpath generator and enhancements to OpenSCAD and Geany plugins, reflecting both numerical/formatting attention and build-automation skill. He pairs pragmatic systems-level problem solving with a track record of shipping cross-cutting infrastructure improvements and reproducible releases.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Sri CempakaGCE A Levels, GCE A Levels at Taylor's University-CollegeBachelor's of Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor's of Engineering Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Github Skills (21)
c-language10
openscad10
scripting10
plug10
gcode10
makefile10
autotools10
plugin10
automake10
3d-models10
script10
build-automation10
sh10
shell10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openscad/MCAD
May 2014 - Oct 2021
OpenSCAD Parametric CAD Library (LGPL 2.1)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 168 commits, 59 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Loong contributed to the OpenSCAD library by merging pull requests that implemented new features and fixed existing issues. The contributions involved modifying existing OpenSCAD files, focusing on the development of 2D and 3D shapes. The user's work demonstrates a good understanding of the project's codebase and its structure. The merged pull requests included changes to multiple files which improved the library's functionality and user experience.
polygons3d-modelsfltkcadparametric
geany/geany-plugins
Jun 2009 - Dec 2022
The combined Geany Plugins collection
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:160 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 13 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Loong's contributions primarily focused on automating the build process and integrating new plugins into the Geany plugins collection. They introduced and integrated various plugins into the autotools build system, including GeanyGDB, GeanyLaTeX, GeanyLipsum, ShiftColumn, Spellcheck, CodeNav, and GeanyVC. The commits involved significant changes to `autogen.sh` and `vars.mk` files to establish a common build system for all plugins. These changes improve the overall build and packaging of the project, and make it easier to manage new plugins.
geanytiddlywiki5pluginsgeany-plugins
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