Sylvester Chin
Software Engineer at Allium
Singapore
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSylvester Chin is a software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable distributed systems, datastores, and performance-focused infrastructure across multimedia, platform and blockchain domains. He has shipped production-grade backend systems at GitLab (Scalability and Runway teams) and Rakuten Viki, and is currently building blockchain data infrastructure at Allium in Singapore. Comfortable across languages and big-data tooling from his GovTech and research backgrounds, he combines systems-level rigor with practical experience in streaming and playback APIs. He keeps much of his work public (gitlab.com/schin1), reflecting a transparent, reproducible approach to engineering. Colleagues know him for reliably scaling hard problems and for quietly owning end-to-end reliability that users rarely notice—until something would have broken without him.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computing Computer Science, Master of Computing Computer Science at National University of SingaporeBachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Industrial Engineering at The University of British ColumbiaRaffles InstitutionCollege of Alice & Peter TanVictoria School
Github Skills (50)
goto10
sidekiq10
ruby10
linux9
client-library9
ruby-client9
homebrew9
jruby9
macos9
rust9
package-manager8
session-cookie8
keystrokes8
flow-typed8
mahjong8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dsaidgovsg/nomad-parametric-autoscaler
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
A customizable Nomad/EC2 auto-scaling service
Contributions:12 releases, 67 commits, 48 PRs in 9 months
golangreactauto-scalingec2nomad
slai11/goto
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
gt your desired path with minimal keystrokes
Contributions:9 releases, 33 commits, 66 PRs in 2 months
pathkeystrokesclicommand-line-toolgoto
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