Wilber Chao
Principal Engineer at iKala
Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolWilber Chao is a Principal Engineer based in Taipei with 11 years building high-throughput distributed systems, microservices, and data pipelines across e-commerce and ad-tech. He has driven major reliability and efficiency gains—designing Shopee’s notification stack that enabled billion-message retractions daily, cut storage and compute by 30%, and improved cross-region latency by 80%. Previously he built scalable data warehouses and customer data platforms that handled billions of events, and led migrations to hybrid cloud with zero downtime. A pragmatic leader and hands-on engineer, he blends DevOps, system design, and project delivery while mentoring teams to increase product evolvability. He contributes to open-source (notably ZIO-Config) and is comfortable turning complex consistency and performance challenges into operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Tatung UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University
Github Skills (48)
continuation9
concurrent9
asynchronous9
scala9
zio9
raii9
effects9
concurrent-programming8
concurrency8
functional-programming8
async8
shapeless7
batch6
stm6
streaming6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cecol/leetcode-practice
Apr 2017 - Dec 2024
Contributions:192 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 8 months
cecol/zio-config
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
A ZIO library that lets you build apps that use configuration data from any format.
Contributions:2 PRs, 43 pushes, 14 branches in 5 months
scalazio
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