Bernie Chiu
Taiwan
Summary
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SeniorBernie Chiu is a seasoned software engineering lead with 12 years of experience building and scaling web applications, currently steering engineering at Rivo and Rivo Commerce. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, with hands-on expertise across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Redis, and performance optimization that speeds up responses and reduces operating costs. As a founding team member, he helped scale a Shopify loyalty platform from a startup to a multi-million-dollar business, delivering key Rails features that propelled the app into the Shopify App Store top 3 (2023–2025). Earlier at Shogun, he designed an edge CDN in Rust and automated cloud infrastructure, achieving up to 50% faster browser speeds and substantial cost savings. An active open-source contributor and lifelong learner, Bernie blogs, shares ideas online, and is expanding toward Golang and large-scale architectures, backed by a Master's in Management of Information Systems from National Taipei University of Technology.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
263reputation
20kreached
24answers
7questions
Github Skills (200)
opensearch10
error-handler10
automation10
stacktrace10
command-line-tool10
chartjs-plugin10
scheduler10
google-charts10
html10
highcharts10
idioms10
insertion10
data-science10
apache10
auditing10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
berniechiu/rails
Oct 2018 - Jun 2022
Ruby on Rails
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
ruby-on-railsrailsruby-onruby
berniechiu/better_dig
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Provide indifferent access of nested data lookup
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 3 months
nested-data
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