Backend Engineer (Go)

Corey Chen

I build event-driven backend systems that stay correct when things fail.

Kafka, MySQL, Redis and Temporal in Go — idempotent consumers, compensating transactions, audit trails.

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2+
years in production
6
services where I'm the top contributor
10
Kafka consumers
~100K
end users served
Latest: Bangkok Street Food Odyssey: 72 Hours of Eating Everything Writing from Singapore
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Focus Area

Go backend · distributed systems · data consistency

Experience

2+ years production backend + TikTok internship

Ownership

Largest contributor to 6 of ~20 services (~100K end users)

Status

Open to backend roles in Singapore · PR, no sponsorship

Latest writing

Recent Notes & Essays

Travel Essay
18 min Apr 1, 2026

Bangkok Street Food Odyssey: 72 Hours of Eating Everything

A three-day deep dive into Bangkok's street food scene — from midnight pad thai in Chinatown to dawn congee at a 50-year-old stall, tracing the city's culinary DNA one bite at a time.

Thailand Bangkok Food +2
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Tech Essay
8 min Mar 15, 2026

Deep Dive into GORM Preload Mechanism

Understanding how GORM's Preload works under the hood — from lazy loading pitfalls to optimized eager loading strategies in Go microservices.

Go GORM MySQL +1
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Travel Essay
6 min Mar 1, 2026

Singapore Hawker Culture: A Food Journey

Exploring Singapore's UNESCO-recognized hawker centers — from Maxwell Food Centre to Lau Pa Sat, discovering the soul of local cuisine.

Singapore Food Culture
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Projects

Case studies of microservices I've designed and built.

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Experience

Work history and education background.

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Blog

Notes on engineering, systems, and travel.

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About

Who I am, how I work, and what I use.

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Open Source

Public repos: Go code, my blog source and investing notes.

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Featured Work

Selected Projects

Core Platform

Identity Service

Accounts, sessions and a multi-level partner hierarchy for a multi-tenant platform

Go go-zero gRPC MySQL/GORM Redis +2
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Business Services

Segmentation & Loyalty Service

Customer segmentation, loyalty-tier cashback and partner rebate configuration

9 tables

Go go-zero gRPC MySQL/GORM Redis +2
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Personal Projects

coreytrading

An LLM-agent trading-operations system with reviewed, auditable state changes

Python pandas Claude Code Codex exchange-calendars
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Open to backend roles

Singapore Permanent Resident — no sponsorship needed. Resume and contact below.

Download resume (PDF) [resume.pdf]