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Latest blog entry: On technical debt
Hi, my name is Chew and welcome to my blog. I'm currently the CTO of Alphaus, a Tokyo-based startup doing cloud financial operations. My interests at the moment revolve around distributed systems and cloud computing. Outside of work, I enjoy reading, especially high fantasy with very interesting magic systems. I'm also into music. I play a couple of instruments (bass, guitar, piano, and drums) although I'm not very good at any of them.
Also, why Flowerinthenight? Good question. If you are thinking about Flowerinthenight, the princess from Diana Wynne Jones' Castle In The Air, then you are right. Anyway, it goes without saying that she is one of my favorite book characters of all time. Seriously, I can't think of any other princess with a name as fantastic as hers.
Work history (20+ years)
- CTO, 2017-present | Alphaus Inc., Japan
- Product/technology strategy, engineering management, recruitment
- Software architecture, infrastructure, engineering processes
- FinOps, Multicloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Senior Software Engineer, 2016-2017 | TeraRecon, Inc.
- Image processing/analysis, 2D/3D rendering (C, C++, C#, DICOM)
- Tools and services (Go, .NET Core, Service Fabric)
- Research Engineer, 2008-2016 | IBM -> Lenovo
- Device driver development (WDM, KMDF, UMDF, Linux, Android)
- BIOS development (C, x86 ASM)
- Video, audio development (DirectShow, Media Foundation, OpenCV, DirectX, Intel IPP)
- Windows development (Win32, MFC, COM, .NET, UWP)
- Android development (framework level, JNI, C++)
- Embedded systems (C, C++, ASM)
- And many others (mostly C/C++)...
Others
- Alphaus engineering blog that I maintain, and
- Mobingi's (Alphaus' previous name) old tech blog that I maintain (archived).
Contact
Feel free to contact me via email if you need CTO coaching, consulting, or fractional CTO services. I do occasional OSS in my spare time as well so if you're interested in that instead, drop me a line. Please be aware that I receive many emails so my response might be delayed.