Vanessa Chua

Overview

7 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Umber Grid, where I work on the infrastructure team. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 16 minutes to under 3. Before that: LG Electronics and Grab. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

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Experience

1. Senior Site Reliability Engineer

   Feb 2024 - Present
   Umber Grid · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Shenzhen, China
   • Wrote the AWS service that now handles 62 million requests a day.
   • Built the experimentation framework 10 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 32 minutes to under 5.
2. Site Reliability Engineer

   Feb 2021 - Dec 2023
   LG Electronics · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Shenzhen, China
   • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 37 a week to 4.
3. Site Reliability Engineer

   Jul 2019 - Nov 2020
   Grab · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Shenzhen, China
   • Moved 89% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 27% in two quarters.

Projects

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Education

1. INSEAD Singapore

   MBA, Business Administration
   2021 - 2023
2. National University of Singapore

   BComp, Information Technology
   2015 - 2019