Siaw Lau
Software Engineer at LXA
San Francisco, California, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolSiaw Lau is a versatile software engineer with 12 years of experience building production-grade web platforms and tooling across startups and high-growth companies in Singapore and San Francisco. He’s shipped end-to-end systems from monolith-to-microservice migrations at Carousell to leading Forge’s Liquidity platform and later architecting loan origination tooling and a custom rules engine at LXA. As a founder at Unsearch he explored integrating LLMs and ML to make enterprise search in Slack genuinely useful, showing a blend of product intuition and applied ML experimentation. Comfortable across full-stack, backend rules engines, and developer-facing tools, he favors pragmatic, auditable solutions that mirror real-world regulatory needs. He writes at siawyoung.com and brings a tinkerer’s curiosity—often reverse-engineering complex flows to make them reliably automatable. Now based in San Francisco, he continues to combine startup grit with rigorous engineering discipline.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
NUS High Diploma, NUS High Diploma at NUS High School of Mathematics and ScienceTao Nan SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Information Systems and Technology Design, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Systems and Technology Design at Singapore University of Technology and Design
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (200)
right-to-left10
voice10
compiler10
gatsby10
static-site-generator10
fastest10
tufte10
graphql10
bootswatch10
frontend10
react10
balloon9
hook9
emacs-lisp9
melpa9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
siawyoung/remerge
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 28 PRs, 40 pushes in 26 days
reactstate-managementreduxsimplified
siawyoung/topick
Jul 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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