# Joshua Aung

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joshuaaung

A Full Stack engineer with cloud engineer bent. Passionate about distributed systems, IoT, building applications that leverage cutting-edge technologies, and optimising them. Currently building LLM applications.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer, AI @ CPOHQ + Knoetic AI
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Senior Software Engineer (AVP), AI Lab @ OCBC
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Singapore
OCBC AI lab is an in-house research lab developing AI bank applications. OCBC is a pioneer being one of the first banks to establish a dedicated AI lab since 2018.

• Key Engineer in a small impactful team developing OCBC Wingman, an in-house AI coding assistant built for VS Code and IntelliJ IDEs, integrated with LLMs hosted on-premise
• Lead the automatic code completion feature for Wingman, and demo-ed the code completion feature to firm wide engineers. Contributed to AI chatbot fine-tuned for coding tasks and code debugging features.
• Successfully rolled out to 2,000 software engineers across OCBC Group's international offices increasing the productivity of the engineers by 20%.

Skills: FastAPI, Ray, HTTP Streaming, Nginx, Prompt Engineering, VS Code Extension APIs, React, Redux, Typescript, Python, PostgreSQL, Bash

### Senior Software Engineer @ Acquco
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Singapore
• One of the key engineers building company’s main product which aims to enable self-driving e-commerce brands.
• Built Automation services(Pricing Automation, Pay-per-click(PPC) Ads Automation, and Store Automation for Amazon Merchants) from POC stage to Production using Airflow, Hasura, SQS, PostgreSQL, Business Rules Engine and various NPM modules for the Frontend.
• Lead engineer for Auth microservice; migrated 100% from self-hosted Keycloak to AWS Cognito, moving authentication and authorization services to the AWS platform.
• Designed and built access control system (RBAC, ACL) for user level and organization level using Hasura role-based authorisation and database operation permissions and AWS Cognito user pool and identity pool.

Skills: AWS(Cognito, SQS, Secrets Manager, Lambda, CodeArtifact), Docker, Airflow, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Hasura, GraphQL, Redis, React, React-Query, Redux, MobX, Typescript, Linux, HTML/CSS

### Senior Software Engineer @ Studypool
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Singapore
• Spearheaded the design and implementation of the company's Network Infrastructure and Virtual Network (VPC) on AWS - laying out the foundation for distributed services, scalability, and security.
• Key engineer building and optimizing company’s web products(multi-tiered architecture) growing user-base by 10x.
• Hardened cloud services SSH connection management
• Integrated 3rd-party Fraud Detection/Risk Intelligence platform by building Javascript(ES6) client-side module and server-side API endpoints.

Skills: AWS, PHP, MySQL, Redis, React, Redux, Javascript(ES6, Vanilla JS), WebAPI, Webpack, SSH, Linux, HTML/CSS

### Software Engineer @ Studypool
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Singapore

### Software Engineer Intern @ Studypool
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
NUS (National University of Singapore) Overseas College Scholarship Work-Study Program

### Platoon Commander @ Singapore Armed Forces (SAF)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Singapore
Lieutenant(NS)
• Led and trained 3 batches of army recruits; with each batch consisting of 50 recruits.
• Managed training, readiness and social well-being of the recruits.
• Planned and executed major events such as Live-Firing and Route Marches.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computing, Computer Science
National University of Singapore
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### NOC Silicon Valley in Batch 30, Computer Software Engineering
NUS Overseas Colleges
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017

### High School in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Economics
Jurong Junior College
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joshuaaung
- GitHub: https://github.com/joshuaaung

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Last updated: 2026-03-20