Tony Chen

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Computer 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