Valerie Jasmine Chua

Overview

Senior Engineering Manager at Millbrook Technologies, focused on developer tools. Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 653ms to 165ms. Before that: UOB and Lenovo.

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Mar 2026 - Present
   Millbrook Technologies · 7 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 3.
   • Led the migration of 78 services to Rust.
2. Staff Software Engineer

   Nov 2022 - Mar 2026
   UOB · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   • Built the experimentation framework 6 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Moved 90% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Senior Software Engineer

   Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
   Lenovo · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 25 a week to 3.
4. Software Engineer

   Sep 2017 - Jan 2019
   Stripe · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   • Shipped 24 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
   • Wrote the TypeScript service that now handles 3 million requests a day.
5. Software Engineer

   Oct 2014 - Sep 2017
   HSBC · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   • Moved 72% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 662ms to 62ms.

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Education

1. Melbourne Business School

   MBA, Business Administration
   2011 - 2013
2. Waseda University

   BA, Information Technology
   2007 - 2011