Wai Choy
Engineering at Gumloop
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolWai Choy is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience designing and delivering seven big-data powered services across telecom, agritech, eHealth, public safety and research. He blends hands-on API, SDK and data engineering (Node/Typescript, Python, GraphQL, BigQuery) with SRE and platform expertise on GCP/AWS, infra-as-code and DataOps to build low-latency, customer-facing systems. At TELUS he scaled personalization and omnichannel commerce services, introduced production tracing and predictive caching to cut triage and latency dramatically, and mentored engineers into tech-lead roles. He now focuses on team-building and fostering experimentation and customer empathy while architecting secure multi-cloud infrastructure at Gumloop and iterating consumer-facing games with his daughter at SupaChef. A former bioinformatics analyst and IoT data engineer, he brings a rare mix of scientific rigor and product-minded systems engineering to complex data problems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Experimental Medicine, Master of Science (MSc), Experimental Medicine at The University of British Columbia
Malay, Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
346reputation
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graphql
top-5%
apollo
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Github Skills (107)
nodejs-client10
storage10
slack10
data-modeling10
markdown9
hapi9
expressjs9
api-requests9
apollo9
request-validation9
dbt9
koa9
graphql9
analytics9
sequencing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hochoy/unity_hangryhangryhippies
Mar 2017 - Nov 2024
Contributions:7 pushes in 7 years 9 months
hochoy/project_portfolio2
Feb 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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