Chew Jia Rong

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Hi there.

My name is Jia Rong.


People often call me Chew Jia, but Chew is actually my surname.
I am predominantly a Software Developer who loves to code and experiment with new technologies.

I am a senior undergraduate at the Singapore Management University (SMU) of Singapore, currently pursuing a BSc. Information Systems degree, majoring in Software Development.

If you happen to speak Chinese, my Chinese name is 周家荣 (zhōu jia róng).
During my free time, I enjoy watching movies and finding good places to eat.

Skills

Through various projects (in and out of school), I have accumulated a set of skills useful in the IT industry.

Programming Languages
  • Python
  • PHP
  • Java
  • SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
  • R Programming
Software & Technologies
  • Git/GitHub
  • JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence
  • Flask
  • RabbitMQ
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • Figma
  • Tableau
  • Neo4j
  • VueJS
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Open Policy Agent (Rego)
  • Microsoft Office
AWS Services
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon EC2
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon RDS
  • Amazon Route 53
  • Amazon CloudFront
  • AWS Fargate
  • AWS CodeBuild, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • AWS Glue
  • Amazon Athena
  • Amazon QuickSight
Misc.
  • Agile Development (SCRUM)
  • Object Oriented Design
  • Unit Testing
  • REST API
  • Microservice Architectures

Resume

Summary

Chew Jia Rong

Passionate Software Developer with 3+ years of experience in programming and development.

Singapore

Education

BSc. Information Systems

Software Development Major

2018 - 2022 (Expecting Graduation)

Singapore Management University (SMU)

Awards:

  • SG:D Scholarship (Undergraduate) Scholarship 2021
  • Dean’s List for Academic Year 2019/2020

Leadership and Activities:

  • Honorary Finance Secretary of SMU Whitehats Society 2019
  • Welfare Director of SMU MetamorphoSIS Camp 2019
  • Facilitator for SMU Freshmen Orientation Camp 2019
  • Facilitator for Whitehacks 2019
  • SMU Climb Member
  • Logistics Executive for Project Caritas V

Teaching Assistant:

  • IS113 - Web Application Development
  • Assisted students in Web Development and PHP
  • IS213 - Enterprise Software Development
  • Assisted students in software development, Docker, RabbitMQ and Python Flask
  • IS212 - Software Project Management
  • Assisted students in software development lifecycle concepts (agile methodology, CI/CD, test-driven development)

A Levels

2014-2015

Tampines Junior College, Singapore

Leadership and Activities:

  • Civic Council Vice President
    • Planned and executed National Education events (Racial Harmony Day, National Day)
    • Facilitated class movements within school during these events

Professional Experience

Devops Engineer Intern

May 2021 - Aug 2021

GovTech Singapore

  • Develop Python scripts to detect misconfigurations and policy changes in CI/CD tools (Jira, NexusIQ, SonarQube)
  • Used Open Policy Agent (OPA) to define policy as code and highlight misconfigurations
  • Leveraged AWS services (AWS Glue, AWS Athena, AWS Quicksight) and OWASP ZAP to create a workflow to detect vulnerabilities in Government websites

Backend Engineer Intern

May 2020 - Aug 2020

Dathena Science, Singapore

  • Worked on the development of multiple applications’ backend code
  • Wrote unit tests and tested software products, patched bugs and advised on suitable improvements
  • Proactively participated in Agile Scrum process for development
  • Wrote bash scripts to save, populate and amend the SQL database for a demo application for clients

Instructor

Feb 2018 - May 2018

Duck Learning, Singapore

  • Taught students to build and use Lego Education kits, involving programming of the robots built
  • Educate secondary children on basic python programming

Head, Business Development

Nov 2017 - Aug 2018

Beep Technologies, Singapore

  • Took initiative to learn programming of the company’s application backend code
  • Set up and maintained the company’s cloud servers
  • Find and pursue leads for customer acquisition
  • Liaised with partners and associates on several business dealings

Contact

Feel free to contact me for any queries, feedback, comments or projects!