Portrait of Wally Chang

Chao-Chueh Wally Chang 張朝覺

Senior Software Engineer

Work Experience

Shizen Connect

Sept. 2024 – Present
Research & Development / Senior Software Engineer

New features for an energy management platform

  • Led the planning and execution of new feature development for an energy data management platform, coordinating requirements between stakeholders and engineering teams.
  • Designed and oversaw profitability simulation projects for electricity transactions, translating business objectives into technical deliverables.
  • Utilized cloud-based and data analysis tools to support project planning, validation, and decision-making.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure feature feasibility, system scalability, and on-time delivery.
  • AWS Lambda
  • SES
  • EventBridge
  • Google Colab
  • Jupyter Notebook

Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC)

Feb. 2023 – Aug. 2024
IT Specialist / Senior DevOps Engineer

IT systems for a newly built semiconductor foundry

  • Communicated with stakeholders and wrote system requirement specifications for development.
  • Established and executed rollout plans for 30 systems with stakeholders and DevOps teams.
  • Conducted 30+ user interviews to understand pain points and worked with the home development team to build solutions.
  • Communicated with internal and external parties in English, Japanese and Chinese.
  • Deployed and monitored microservice nodes with Argo CD and Prometheus.
  • Argo CD
  • Prometheus

Protolabs Japan G.K.

May 2016 – Oct. 2022
Senior Software Engineer

Protolabs 2.0 — digital quoting platform and MES in a microservice architecture

  • Participated in the design and implementation of a microservice system tailored for the manufacturing process.
  • Created design and implementation plans and executed them using Agile methods.
  • Designed and implemented frontend UI, backend business logic, database access and message queues for optimal performance.
  • Designed and implemented the CI/CD pipeline on Azure DevOps.
  • Worked as a trusted, self-disciplined member of a fully remote team.
  • Took SRE duty to ensure high availability of the web apps.
  • .NET Core
  • C#
  • Vue.js
  • TypeScript
  • Vuetify
  • webpack
  • nginx
  • Azure DevOps
  • Docker
  • RavenDB
  • MSSQL
  • RabbitMQ
  • Datadog
  • Splunk
  • PagerDuty
  • SonarQube

Project Kaizen — maintenance and improvement of the existing system

  • Worked with stakeholders to understand their needs and proposed solutions and plans.
  • Planned design, implementation, testing, deployment and user communication.
  • Contributed to a 30% increase in global revenue.
  • .NET Framework Web Forms

e-Jan Networks

Oct. 2014 – May 2016
Senior Software Engineer

CACHATTO Business Messenger — workplace communication tool

  • Led a small team in Japan to drive development tasks.
  • Developed and delivered a web-based chat application.
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery

QNAP Systems

Feb. 2013 – Jul. 2014
Software Engineer

myQNAPcloud

  • Developed and deployed the client application connecting to the cloud service.
  • Built the client UI with ExtJS and the backend logic in Linux C.
  • Delivered a lightweight client; the system grew to handle millions of connections worldwide.
  • C
  • JavaScript
  • ExtJS

Quanta Research Institute, Quanta Computer

Dec. 2009 – Feb. 2013
Specialist (Jan. 2012 – Feb. 2013) · Software Engineer (Dec. 2009 – Dec. 2012)

QUCA — video conference and broadcasting system

  • Led Android software development and planning; delivered the Android controller app and an Android video broadcasting system, which later evolved into a tele-medical platform used in Taiwan.
  • Initiated a video conferencing set-top box system providing video and voice calls.
  • Led development of the Linux controller software and coordinated with vendors.
  • US Patent 8749611B2 “Video conference system”.
  • C
  • Linux
  • Java
  • Android

Side Projects

FomoSports × TRON

Oct. 2018 – Jun. 2019
Frontend Engineer

FOMOSPORTS — blockchain betting game on Web3 smart contracts

  • Responsible for frontend development and deployment; delivered the web app on a tight schedule.
  • Won first place in the TRON accelerator competition.
  • TypeScript
  • Vue.js

Open Source

Contributions to Vuetify and asp-net-core-vue-starter. See github.com/wallyjue.