Xiaoqi Chu
Founder at Nas Company
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolXiaoqi Chu is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years in software development and over 7 years building and scaling high-performing teams across startups and unicorns, currently based in Singapore. He has led organizations from hands-on product architecture to 30+ direct reports, delivering high-throughput systems (millions QPS) for e-commerce, community platforms, and fintech products. A repeat VP of Engineering at Nas Company and former lead at Sea/Shopee and Airwallex, he combines pragmatic startup instincts with platform-level experience in gateways, BFFs, IAM, and observability. Xiaoqi is notable for turning AI into a force-multiplier for engineering leadership—accelerating hiring, onboarding, and technical decision-making—while founding a focused builders’ community to experiment with AI-driven learning and execution. He pairs cost-conscious strategic planning with a bias for execution and a track record of stabilizing teams through rapid growth and change.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Github Skills (4)
language-processing4
natural-language-processing4
nlp4
machine-learning3
Github contributions (2)
idf/RecipeIngredients
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 2 days
nlplanguage-processingautumnmachine-learningnatural-language
cxqntu/ntusurvey
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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