jonathan chow

• Go | TypeScript
• React
• Docker | Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL | BigQuery

Pipe — Fully remote

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2024 - current

• Architectured a framework for maintaining versioning of our public API that maximises developer experience while minimising the burden of maintaining older versions.
• Integrated with payment providers across the Americas, Oceania and Europe as we expanded into new countries.
• Implemented a developers' portal to support partners to easily and transparently integrate with our platform.

Chinese Alliance Christian Church — Auckland, NZ

Youth Pastor / Associate Pastor

Jan 2019 - Apr 2024

• Gave back to the community I grew up in by becoming a full-time leader in it.
• Empowered the next generation to be their best through creating positive, safe spaces for them to discover themselves and engage with others.
• Drove the development and casting of a new vision statement for the church.
• Led the senior leadership team to respond decisively to the needs of the community.

• Go | JavaScript | Scala
• React
• Docker | Kubernetes
• Spark | Elasticsearch

Movio — Auckland, NZ

Software Engineer

Mar 2017 - Mar 2018

• Built an ML-based recommendations algorithm to match movies to moviegoers, increasing visitation rates by over 5x.
• Developed a localised, responsive single-page web application to generate audience segmentations based on recommendations.

• Go | TypeScript
• React | PostgreSQL
• Docker

HooCan — Auckland, NZ

Co-founder

Sep 2016 - Mar 2017

• Co-founded a startup to connect people with local service providers.
• Developed a responsive mobile app and fully-tested REST API backend.
• Integrated with payment provider Stripe with full audit trail.

• Go | JavaScript | Scala | PHP
• React | AngularJS | Akka
• Docker | Kubernetes
• Prometheus | Grafana
• MySQL | Elasticsearch | InfiniDB | Cassandra

Movio — Auckland, NZ

Software Engineer

Jan 2013 - Sep 2016

• Developed a WYSIWYG email editor from the ground up to enable clients to swiftly and efficiently create marketing campaigns.
• Set up real-time monitoring and alerting tools to ensure reliability of microservices.
• Transitioned server architecture from monolith to microservices.
• Ported key segmentation backend from row- to column-oriented database to meet the performance demands of new clients 10x larger than existing clients.
• Designed and implemented a box-office reporting platform capable of generating real-time reports across custom segmentations.
• Architectured and rewrote the email-sending infrastructure using the Actor model to ensure reliability and performance of email marketing campaigns.