Shide Foo
Senior Software Engineer (Data Science Platform)
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolShide Foo is a Software Engineer specializing in Developer Experience with 9 years of hands-on experience building infrastructure, Kubernetes, and MLOps platforms for large-scale ML workloads. He has designed and run self-serve platforms that help data scientists train, deploy, monitor models, and manage feature stores at production scale, including owning a Feast-based feature store serving up to 70k RPS. His work spans cloud migrations, cost-optimization (e.g., halving container registry costs), and GitOps-driven management of 15+ Kubernetes clusters using ArgoCD. At Gojek he led cross-team migrations from Bigtable/Redis to HBase and moved offline stores to MaxCompute while improving observability and analytics for feature usage. Now focused on developer experience at Airwallex, he pairs deep systems knowledge (Go, Python, Terraform, Prometheus) with pragmatic automation to reduce toil and increase platform reliability. A former platoon commander and multi-disciplinary student (Music & Computing), he brings disciplined leadership and an unusual blend of technical and creative problem-solving.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Music and Computing, Music and Computing at University of California, BerkeleyMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyPhysics Chemistry Mathematics Economics, Physics Chemistry Mathematics Economics at Raffles InstitutionBachelor's degree (B.Eng) Computer Science, Bachelor's degree (B.Eng) Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Github Skills (191)
api-management10
python10
standardized10
security10
consul10
sklearn10
deep-learning10
xadmin10
xls10
microservices10
k8s10
continuous-delivery10
ml10
proxies10
pipeline10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
shydefoo/wiki-assistant
Dec 2018 - May 2022
Take home assignment building and deploying a web UI in Flask to query wikipages according to outdatedness
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes in 3 years 6 months
deployingquerypythonweb-uitake-home
shydefoo/vimrc
Jun 2019 - Mar 2022
The ultimate Vim configuration: vimrc
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
vimvim-pluginneovimvim-configurationvimrc-configuration
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