Mike Chong
Software Engineer at Onyx Platform
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMike Chong is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 12 years of experience and a strong 8-year focus on design, architecture, testing, and data-driven development. He has deep expertise in object-oriented design, algorithms, and distributed systems, and has shipped code that runs on over a billion devices across browser, mobile, and desktop platforms. A natural team builder, he routinely works across organizational boundaries to deliver reliable, maintainable systems and mentors peers on quality and scalability. On the open-source side he has focused on backend infrastructure—building proxy validation, scheduling, DB integrations, and JSON APIs for projects like Scylla that enable large-language-model data collection. His background blends rigorous academic training in engineering and public policy with practical product experience across startups and larger tech organizations, giving him a rare lens on both technical tradeoffs and real-world impact.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Applied Science Electrical and Computer Engineering, Masters of Applied Science Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of WaterlooMaster of International Public Policy, Master of International Public Policy at Balsillie School of International Affairs
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Github contributions (5)
MikeChongCan/scylla
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
Intelligent proxy pool for Humans™ to extract content from the internet and build your own Large Language Models in this new AI era
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 31 reviews, 314 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the implementation of core functionalities within the Scylla project. Their commits focused on building the tcpping and validator modules, which are essential components for proxy IP validation. Furthermore, the user integrated database support and a basic scheduler, indicating a focus on the project's back-end infrastructure. The user also developed a JSON API for interacting with the proxy data.
ailarge-language-modelsproxypoolcrawlerpython3
imWildCat/opendal
Feb 2023 - Jun 2024
OpenDAL: Access data freely, painlessly, and efficiently
Contributions:3 reviews, 6 PRs, 98 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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