Profile of Brian Sia

Brian Sia

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

About

Software engineer with experience with full-stack development, in-house engineering tools and AI-powered solutions.

Experience

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    Software Engineer @ Tigerlab

    MY - Onsite

    Summary:

    • Develop and maintain a broker management system used by one of the biggest European insurance companies for logistics, supply chain and transportation.

    Responsibilities:

    • Develop and maintain a broker management system that's used to serve one of the biggest European insurance companies for logistics, supply chain and transportation.
    • Set up Woodpecker CI pipeline for unit test coverage; wrote test suites to ensure correct business flow.
    • Refactor legacy code and remove tech debt; optimize performance bottlenecks using Sentry.
    • Python
    • Django
    • PostgreSQL
    • Woodpecker
    • Sentry
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    Software Engineer @ Orsted

    MY - Onsite

    Summary:

    • Modernized in-house engineering tools and develop solutions for grid compliance studies.

    Responsibilities:

    • Maintained projects and migrate legacy applications to new tech stack.
    • Collaborated with power system engineers and project managers to deliver high-quality solutions.
    • Ensured code quality and optimized front-end performance to meet user needs and business objectives.
    • Designed and developed highly reactive components to improve application efficiency and user interaction.
    • Developed endpoints and services for business logic and data management, ensuring seamless integration with front-end applications.

    Achievements:

    • Modernize in-house application for grid compliance studies. Transitioned the app from a proof-of-concept Plotly Dash Desktop app to a scalable cloud solution. Grid Compliance studies time reduced from an hour to 5 minutes
    • Conceptualize and implement loadflow analysis calculations for the EREC G5/5 recommendations, allowing the power system engineers to perform grid compliance studies for UK based windfarm projects
    • Migrate a critical wind farm SCADA network automation application to an isolated network, improving security and uptime. Reduce 5 years of technical debt.
    • HTML5
    • CSS3
    • SCSS
    • Bootstrap
    • JavaScript ECMA6+
    • TypeScript
    • Vue
    • Angular
    • Spring
    • NodeJS
    • Python
    • Postman
    • i18n
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
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    Senior Software Engineer @ Aonic

    MY - Onsite

    Summary:

    • Develop in-house AI software for company's drone solutions and services.

    Responsibilities:

    • Early software developer employee that worked on the company's mapping tool, AIRAMAP.
    • Mentor incoming interns by onboarding them to the projects. Organize daily stand-ups, perform code review and provide guidance.
    • Conceptualize and develop an in-house detection software that uses computer vision to detect palm-tree from aerial images.
    • Perform research on semantic segmentation models for tree health classification.
    • Develop architectural diagrams to integrate in-house palm detection software to AIRAMAP.

    Achievements:

    • With the in-house computer vision software, the time needed to do tree counting is greatly reduced, from 24 hours to 2 hours
    • AIRAMAP enables users to identify at-risk areas within 30 seconds.
    • HTML5
    • CSS3
    • SCSS
    • Bootstrap
    • JavaScript ECMA6+
    • TypeScript
    • Python
    • C#
    • C++
    • Tensorflow
    • PyTorch
    • Postman
    • Figma
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    Failure Analysis Engineer/Software Engineer @ Intel

    MY - Onsite

    Summary:

    • Perform post-silicon fault isolation and failure analysis for Cannon Lake and Skylake products.

    Responsibilities:

    • Automate silicon failure analysis workflows using Python, reducing data collection time by 40%
    • Migrated legacy silicon characterization tool from VB.NET to C#, enhancing performance and maintainability for the engineers.
    • Python
    • C#
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    Software Developer Intern @ First Steamship Co. Ltd

    TW - Onsite

    Summary:

    • Develop automation scripts and in-house vessel tracking application.

    Responsibilities:

    • Built a real-time vessel tracking application with Google Maps API and MySQL/PHP backend. Hosted the app on Amazon Web Services.
    • Maintained the vessel GPS coordinate database.
    • Automated daily trade report generation with Python, reducing the needed time from 2 hours to 5 minutes.
    • Python
    • JavaScript ECMA6+
    • Amazon Web Services
    • MySQL
    • PHP

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Education

Skills

  • Intermediate HTML Intermediate
  • Intermediate CSS Intermediate
  • Intermediate SCSS Intermediate
  • Intermediate Bootstrap Intermediate
  • Intermediate JavaScript Intermediate
  • Intermediate TypeScript Intermediate
  • Intermediate Angular Intermediate
  • Intermediate Node Intermediate
  • Intermediate MySQL Intermediate
  • Intermediate PostgreSQL Intermediate
  • Advanced Git Advanced
  • Advanced GitHub Advanced
  • Beginner AWS Beginner
  • Intermediate Docker Intermediate
  • Beginner Kubernetes Beginner
  • Advanced Python Advanced
  • Intermediate C++ Intermediate
  • Beginner C Beginner
  • Beginner PyTorch Beginner
  • Beginner Go Beginner
  • Intermediate Linux Intermediate
  • Advanced Swagger Advanced
  • Intermediate Postman Intermediate
  • Beginner Figma Beginner