Tony Chen
PDFComputer Science graduate from University of Auckland. Track record of shipping things people actually use. From an open-source email verification tool with 160+ stars to contributing to a project that hit #1 on GitHub Trending.
Education
University of Auckland Dec 2025
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Experience
Software Engineer · STQRY Nov 2025 – Feb 2026
Auckland, NZ
- · Built a full-stack marketing site using Strapi 5, TanStack Start, and Tailwind with a static build pipeline and automated cache purging — cutting content-to-live time from manual releases to under 2 minutes.
- · Developed 15+ Python migration scripts to export, sanitise, and import 500+ legacy pages into Strapi with zero data loss.
- · Authored 3 custom Strapi admin plugins and a queued build system, enabling non-technical editors to publish autonomously.
AI Integration Engineer · ACI.dev Mar 2025 – Oct 2025
London, UK (Remote)
- · Integrated 30+ third-party apps into the world's first unified MCP server, building data pipelines across REST and GraphQL APIs.
- · Core contributor to the open-source ACI project that reached #1 on GitHub Trending, accumulating 4k+ stars and 6k+ users within one month of launch.
Software Engineer · GeneNet Technology Oct 2024 – May 2025
Hong Kong (Remote)
- · Sole frontend engineer for a gene data analysis platform — built the entire client from scratch with Next.js and shadcn/ui.
- · Integrated Firebase Authentication and Node.js/Express RESTful APIs with role-based access control.
Image Algorithm Engineering Intern · Pantum Electronics Jun – Aug 2023
Zhuhai, China
- · Processed and labelled image datasets using PyTorch scripts, assisted in developing a super-resolution model for print quality optimisation.
Projects
AuthInbox ↗ 160+ ★
Serverless email verification platform on Cloudflare Workers & D1. LLM-powered extraction returns structured verification codes as JSON.
Select AI ↗ Capstone
Full-stack AI concierge platform. Led a 6-person team — AI chat API, function tool calling, Next.js frontend, RAG pipeline with Supabase and pgvector.
Skills
- Languages
- Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, Java
- Frontend
- React, Next.js, Astro, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui
- Backend
- FastAPI, Express, .NET, Serverless, REST & GraphQL
- Databases & Cloud
- PostgreSQL, Supabase, Cloudflare Workers, AWS, Azure, GCP
- AI & LLM
- MCP integration, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, RAG pipelines, Agentic Workflows
- DevOps
- Docker, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages