William Cheong
Cloud Architect at Maybank
Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia
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Top SchoolWilliam Cheong is a seasoned software architect and engineering leader with 12 years' experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems and guiding enterprise technology strategy across Malaysia's financial sector. As Head of X-Catalyst at Maybank and founder of Divineforge Technology, he blends R&D into product delivery, scouting emerging technologies and translating them into practical solutions for insurers and banks. He has hands-on roots in mobile and game development, a track record of rebuilding and modernizing critical apps, and experience driving architecture governance and knowledge management. Known for coaching teams through complex technical implementations and agile delivery, he pairs strategic oversight with deep implementation experience—from Node.js backends to Unity-based clients. Unusually for a senior architect, he still ships code and prototypes, keeping a tinkerer’s curiosity alive alongside formal Masters work in software engineering.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)Master of Computer Science Computer Software Engineering, Master of Computer Science Computer Software Engineering at Multimedia UniversityHigh School/Secondary Diploma Programs, High School/Secondary Diploma Programs at ACS IpohSMJK (C) Poi Lam
Spanish, Japanese, English, Chinese, Malay, Korean
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Github Skills (73)
cms10
dashboard10
redis-sentinel10
pygad10
command-line-tool10
database-management10
javascript10
no-code10
pm210
api10
rest10
content-management-system10
electron10
mysql10
typescript10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
divineforge-com/gzen
May 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 1 month
divineforge/flutter_recipes
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 2 tags in 2 months
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