Aaron Chua

CTO at Nimbus Studio · RocksDB, C++

Nimbus Studio

Singapore · SGT (UTC+8)

11+ years experience

INSEAD Singapore

English, Mandarin

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Currently at Nimbus Studio, where I lead distributed databases with a team of 53. Grew the storage team from 3 to 39 engineers. I write a small newsletter about distributed databases.

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C++RaftRustconsensusperformance engineeringRocksDB

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CTO
Mar 2025 - Present
Nimbus Studio · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Singapore
- Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 433ms to 54ms.
- Shipped 25 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
- Grew the storage team from 6 to 13 engineers.
Staff Software Engineer
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Visa · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Singapore
- Moved 89% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Principal Engineer
Jul 2020 - May 2022
TSMC · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Singapore
- Backed 31 founders at pre-seed and seed.
- Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.
Engineering Manager
Sep 2017 - Mar 2020
Naver · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Singapore
- Led the migration of 15 services to Rust.
Engineering Manager
Jul 2015 - Sep 2017
Visa · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Singapore
- Brought on-call pages for storage down from 23 a week to 4.

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Education

INSEAD Singapore
MBA, Business Administration
2012 - 2014
University of Malaya
BSc, Computer Science
2004 - 2008

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