About
Hi, my name is Chew Esmero and welcome to my blog. That’s me on the right, by the way. At the moment, I work as Head of Engineering at a startup called Alphaus Cloud. I live in Japan with my wife (also in the picture). I love reading, especially high fantasy with very interesting magic systems. I also like music. I play a couple of instruments (bass, guitar, piano, and drums) although I’m not very good at any of them.
Also, why Hawkhai? Good question. If you are thinking about Hawkhai, 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
- Engineering Manager, 2017-present | Alphaus Cloud, Japan
- Engineering management, overall architecture design, recruitment
- Go (golang), Microservices, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes
- FinOps, Multicloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, AliCloud/SBCloud)
- Senior Software Engineer, 2016-2017 | TeraRecon, Inc.
- Image processing, 2D/3D rendering (C#, C, C++, DICOM)
- Microservices (Go, .NET Core, Service Fabric)
- Front-end (Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript)
- Software Engineer, 2008-2016 | IBM -> Lenovo
- Device driver development (WDM, KMDF, UMDF, Linux)
- BIOS development (C, x86 ASM)
- Video, camera, audio related development (DirectShow, Media Foundation, OpenCV, DirectX)
- Windows development (Win32, MFC, COM, .NET, UWP)
- Android development (framework level, JNI, C++)
- Embedded systems
- And many others (mostly C/C++)…
Spoken languages
- English - proficient
- Japanese - conversational
Others
Contact
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