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Sewen Thy

@sewenthy

I build reliable backend systems for billing, search, and distributed services at scale.

Singapore
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At Ahrefs, I build and maintain backend services for billing, SERP data, and chatbot tracking. I've migrated complex billing systems to Stripe and moved Elasticsearch-based SERP services to MySQL and ClickHouse, improving reliability, monitoring, and query performance while reducing costs by millions per year.

I work on continuously running, low-latency systems that let users query thousands of position metrics in seconds. I also optimized SQL databases to increase keyword-reporting capacity by 10x, prevented race conditions, and mentored an intern through a shipped dashboard that accelerated backend debugging.

Previously, I built recoverable compliance services in Go at Credit Suisse, long-running Java test services at ByteDance, and multi-threaded Python and C++ backends for streaming analytics at BeLive Technology. My research on Extract Method refactoring for Rust was published at OOPSLA 2023.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Credit Suisse logoCS

APAC Technology and Change Summer Analyst

Credit Suisse

May 2022 - Jul 2022 (2 months)

Built long-running compliance checking services in Golang Gin, practiced test-driven development with at least 95% coverage, and designed integrated tests for GitLab ecosystem.

ByteDance logoBY

Backend Engineer Intern, Technical Architecture

Jan 2022 - May 2022 (4 months)

Enriched company wiki for faster onboarding, designed and built low-level long-running test services in Java to catch critical system bugs early.

BT

Full-Stack Developer

BeLive Technology

Jan 2021 - Dec 2021 (11 months)

Developed analytics dashboard for streaming solutions, built multi-threaded backends in Python Flask and C++ Crow, and facilitated DevOps using Docker with Nginx.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Yale-NUS College logoYC

Yale-NUS College

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2019 - 2023

Grade: CAP: 4.62/5.00

Pursued a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Mathematical, Computational, and Statistical Sciences, focusing on Computer Science. Completed advanced coursework in distributed systems and programming language design, and won the Outstanding Capstone Prize for a project on implementing extract method refactoring for Rust.

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