Summary
Nicholas Cheng is a Lead Software Engineer based in Kuala Lumpur with 11 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems that perform under real pressure. He has a strong track record at Grab improving observability, automating monorepo workflows, and substantially increasing notification delivery reliability from 50% to 99.999%, and now leads engineering at Revolab. Nicholas combines hands-on platform work—Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitLab automation and Terraform tooling—with mentoring and hiring, having led teams of junior engineers and interviewed candidates. He brings an R&D mindset from academic cryptography work and early Configura product development, making him adept at both pragmatic ops improvements and research-informed engineering. Colleagues know him for turning tricky operational constraints into durable, automated solutions that save engineering hours.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Advanced Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Advanced Computer Science at Monash University Malaysia
GCE A-Levels, GCE A-Levels at Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology
English, Chinese, Malay