Jaydon Chong
About Jaydon Chong
Jaydon Chong is a Software Engineer with a BSc(Hons) in Software Engineering from Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation. He has experience in developing data dashboards, improving test coverage, and optimizing system performance at Xendit and previously at Biztory Cloud Accounting.
Work at Xendit
Currently, Jaydon Chong works at Xendit as a Software Engineer / Software Engineer III, a position he has held since 2022. In this role, he has significantly improved the test coverage of core services, increasing unit tests from 20% to 90%. He advocates for assertion-based unit tests to enhance code reliability. Prior to his current role, he served as a Junior Software Engineer / Software Engineer II at Xendit for 8 months in 2022. His contributions include utilizing Datadog monitoring tools to optimize latency performance metrics and implementing a retry mechanism for queue runners in an event-driven architecture.
Education and Expertise
Jaydon Chong holds a BSc(Hons) in Software Engineering, which he obtained from Staffordshire University from 2018 to 2021. He also studied at Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU / APIIT) during the same period, focusing on Computer Software Engineering. Prior to his university education, he completed his Australian Matriculation at Methodist College Kuala Lumpur (MCKL) in 2018, where he studied subjects including Economics, Business, Politics and Law, Math Method, and English as a Second Language. He completed his secondary education at SMK Seafield, achieving the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) from 2012 to 2017.
Background
Jaydon Chong began his career with an internship as a Software Developer at Biztory Cloud Accounting in 2020, where he worked for 4 months in Puchong, Selangor, Malaysia. His early education included a focus on science and mathematics at SMK Seafield, where he studied various electives including Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. This foundational knowledge in technical subjects has contributed to his expertise in software engineering.
Technical Contributions
Throughout his career, Jaydon Chong has made several technical contributions that enhance system performance and reliability. He led the migration of the organization's package registry, which streamlined deployment pipelines using BuddyworksCI. Additionally, he developed dashboards using Looker to improve data accessibility for non-technical users, which reduced the internal query load on the datalake. His implementation of a retry mechanism for queue runners has also enhanced the reliability of event-driven architectures.