# BLAISE TIONG

I'm a builder from Malaysia 🇲🇾. This is my canvas where I showcase my craft and work, turning ideas into realities. Hit me up if you have interesting ideas and would like to collaborate.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · blaisetiong.dev@gmail.com · blaisetiong.dev · github.com/Blaise1030 · x.com/blaise1030

## PROJECTS

tabsh your terminal, in a browser tab. Shells stay on your machine and survive reloads.
GoCafeHunt a directory of laptop-friendly cafes. Verified Wi-Fi, power outlets, and a place to work.

## EXPERIENCE

respond.io
- Senior Software EngineerDecember 2025 - Present
  Set up a new repository for the design language system with the rest of the team.
  Introduced an AI software development lifecycle (AISDLC) to raise the team’s development velocity.
  Added GitHub Actions and workflows that improve the development experience for the teams that use them.
- Software EngineerDecember 2023 - December 2025
  Architected a website revamp across landing pages, the blog, and help docs that became the company’s primary revenue driver in 2025. Scaled it to 12,000 multilingual pages and shipped the help-docs publishing pipeline, with localization and a CMS on Cloudflare.
  Improved Core Web Vitals and LLM discoverability with JSON-LD, llms.txt, and Markdown mirrors.
  Led the company’s first design language system: shared components, tokens, and standards that made the UI consistent and prepared it for dark mode.
  Tuned high-use components such as Tooltip by keeping less state, shrinking the DOM, and removing event listeners on unmount.
Axrail Pte Ltd
- Pre-Sales ConsultantFebruary 2023 - December 2023
  Carried the technical side of pre-sales meetings: drew the requirements out of what the client needed and wrote them into scopes of work.
  Proposed the AWS solution for each scope, then produced the sales assets the team used to walk the client through it.
- Software EngineerJuly 2022 - February 2023
  Built static Next.js and React applications, including the interface for an in-house e-commerce system, with Tailwind CSS and Material UI.
  Turned repeated UI into a reusable React component library the other applications could share.
  Contributed to generative AI projects on AWS alongside that product work.

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The Hacker Collective
- Part Time Software EngineerSeptember 2021 - May 2022
  Work as a frontend web engineer on The Hacker Collective’s web products using Vue, Golang, and Tailwind CSS.
Fave Asia
- React Frontend Development InternMarch 2021 - September 2021
  Work as a front-end intern on Fave’s React web frontend product. Include mobile responsiveness to Fave’s webpage and implement new features to Fave’s merchant-facing product FaveBiz.
Juris Technologies
- Software Developer InternDecember 2021 - February 2022
  Exposed to PHP, SQL, and PL/SQL technologies. Support client’s production issues, develop new API for payment-related processes, and work on Juris’s in-house core banking system with seniors.
Monash University UReview
- Frontend DeveloperDecember 2020 - July 2022
  Part of a student feedback platform development team at Monash University Malaysia. Work on Angular and Django to develop new features for the platform.
SM Pei Min
- High School TeacherJanuary 2019 - October 2019
  Taught Form 5 Chemistry and Form 4 Math. Assisted in making exam questions and organizing teaching slides.

## CONTACT

If you enjoy the work, say hello.

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