U-zyn Chua
Adjunct Lecturer at AngelCentral
Singapore
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Top SchoolU-zyn Chua is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and engineer with over two decades of experience building AI-driven systems, secure architectures, and open web platforms from Singapore. As CTO and founder of Zynesis he led complex system design and delivered landmark projects including Sand Dollar, the world’s first retail CBDC for The Central Bank of The Bahamas, and has advised on decentralized identity and govtech initiatives as Singapore’s first Smart Nation Fellow. He combines hands‑on open-source contributions across languages (notably Rust and PHP) with product-level leadership, improving observability, authentication frameworks, and core web frameworks like CakePHP. An active mentor, angel investor, and adjunct lecturer in AI practice at NUS-ISS, he blends technical depth with startup experience and a persistent focus on reviving an independent, user-centric web.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering with minor in Economics, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering with minor in Economics at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese, Malay
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Github Skills (43)
debugging10
debug10
decimals10
cakephp10
sqlite10
postgresql10
validations10
mysql10
api-design10
decimal-numbers10
authentication10
mvc10
form-helper10
user-authentication10
validation10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
opauth/facebook
May 2012 - Aug 2014
Facebook strategy for Opauth
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 5 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:U-zyn primarily worked on the back-end logic for the Facebook strategy within the Opauth framework. Their contributions involved initializing the Facebook strategy, handling the internal callback for authentication, and implementing error handling mechanisms. They updated the code to support multiple Facebook apps and refactored the code by using the serverGet function.
facebook-loginueberauthstrategyfacebook
opauth/opauth
Mar 2012 - Apr 2014
Multi-provider authentication framework for PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:381 commits, 5 comments, 1 issue in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:U-zyn primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Opauth framework, with changes focused on its architecture. These changes include the initial implementation of the `Opauth` class and the use of the `__construct()` method. Additional code modifications included the introduction of URI parsing, configuration options, and debug functions. Further contributions involved renaming files and refactoring code to adhere to PHP standards.
providerphpauthenticationmulti-providerauthentication-framework
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