Sam Chung
Staff Engineer at SEEK
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolSam Chung is a Staff Engineer based in Melbourne with 9 years of backend-focused experience building serverless, GraphQL and TypeScript systems on AWS. At SEEK he progressed from Software Engineer to Staff Engineer, shipping production services and mentoring teams while maintaining a steady streak of practical open-source contributions. His GitHub work shows a knack for stabilizing developer tooling—improving the serverless-esbuild bundler and enhancing Zod-to-OpenAPI generation to better reflect types and formats. Comfortable navigating both product delivery and infrastructure edge-cases, he combines pragmatic refactoring with thoughtful API design. Outside of code, his background ranges from consulting platform engineering to hands-on customer-facing roles, which informs a collaborative, user-aware approach to engineering.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
zod10
serverless10
typescript10
nodejs10
swagger10
typescripts10
aws10
schema10
bundling10
openapi10
typescript-types10
esbuild10
aws-lambda9
npm8
yarnpkg8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
asteasolutions/zod-to-openapi
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
A library that generates OpenAPI (Swagger) docs from Zod schemas
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 77 commits, 23 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the generation of OpenAPI (Swagger) documentation from Zod schemas. They implemented support for features such as integers, string patterns, and formats, enriching the OpenAPI specifications. The user also addressed comments from pull requests and refactored code to improve the functionality of the openapi-generator and related tests. This work enhanced the library's ability to accurately represent and document Zod schemas in the OpenAPI format.
zodschemasopenapi3swagger-docsswagger-openapi
floydspace/serverless-esbuild
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
💨 A Serverless framework plugin to bundle JavaScript and TypeScript with extremely fast esbuild
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:49 reviews, 38 commits, 69 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to bug fixes and refactoring within the serverless-esbuild plugin. Their work involved correcting issues related to external module handling, function definition, and relative path resolution. They also implemented changes to improve code clarity and maintainability, such as simplifying extension logic and updating dependency detection mechanisms. These contributions focused on improving the plugin's functionality and stability.
esbuild-pluginbundlerbundleserverlessesbuild
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