Thomas Chia
CTO at Self-employed
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Chia is a cloud-native CTO with 9 years’ experience building production-ready platforms for early-stage startups and financial institutions across Singapore. He combines hands-on engineering—serverless architectures, infrastructure-as-code, and platform leadership—with a founder/consultant mindset, currently leading Chocolate Finance and advising as an independent consultant. His background spans consumer banking and web/cloud roles at Singlife and DBS, giving him deep experience operationalizing resilient systems in regulated environments. A Durham-educated math and philosophy graduate and former Army officer, he brings analytical rigour, pragmatic decision-making, and a focus on engineering culture to rapidly evolving teams.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics & Philosophy, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics & Philosophy at Durham UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Philosophy, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Philosophy at University of Durham
Github Skills (168)
testing10
typescript-definitions10
react-stripe10
javascript10
internationalization10
react-component10
documented10
notification10
stripe-js10
lambda10
gatsby10
typescript10
aws-lambda10
dts10
dom10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
amaas-fintech/amaas-core-sdk-js
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:289 PRs, 535 pushes, 222 branches in 1 year 2 months
javascripttypescriptcore-sdksdk
thchia/react-oidc
Jul 2018 - Oct 2020
Wrapper for the OIDC JavaScript client, to be used in React projects
Contributions:8 releases, 3 reviews, 47 commits in 2 years 3 months
reactoidcjavascript-clientreact-projectsjavascript
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