Zames Chua
Co-Founder at Waffle
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolZames Chua is a Singapore-based co-founder and software engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building user-facing products and developer tools. He combines front-end expertise in React and TypeScript—evidenced by meaningful contributions to the widely used NUSMods course planning platform—with backend internships at companies like Square and Eloquent Labs, giving him full-stack fluency. At Waffle he channels that technical breadth into product-led engineering, pairing rapid shipping with user-centered design. His background includes startup and academic ecosystems (NUS, NOC Silicon Valley, Stanford entrepreneurship), which fuels a practical, impact-driven approach to building tools that help many people. Colleagues describe him as a builder who moves between marketing, tooling and core engineering, often surfacing small UX details that meaningfully improve adoption.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Stanford UniversityNOC Silicon Valley Batch 34 Computer Science, NOC Silicon Valley Batch 34 Computer Science at NUS Overseas CollegesTemasek Junior CollegeBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
webapp10
react10
typescript-types10
html9
css9
ui-design8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nusmodifications/nusmods
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
🏫 Official course planning platform for National University of Singapore.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 10 PRs, 30 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Zames primarily focused on front-end development, contributing significantly to the user interface of the NUSMods platform. Their commits involved porting existing pages, implementing new UI components like the Team and Developers pages, and adding features such as a color picker with an escape key shortcut. They demonstrated proficiency in React and TypeScript, making changes to routes, layouts, and components while also addressing styling and code-splitting concerns.
nationalreactnusmodssingaporecourse-planning
zameschua/addressbook-level4
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:25 PRs, 54 pushes, 29 branches in 1 month
javaaddresssample-applicationaddress-book
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