Hey there! My name is
Kevin Mingtarja.
I like to build softwares.
I'm an aspiring software engineer who loves designing and building systems and infrastructures. I spent the last year in the Bay Area, building graph databases and a fully managed Database-as-a-Service at
. But now, I'm back in Singapore, finishing my final year at the National University of Singapore.About me.
Hi! My name is Kevin and I'm a final year computer science undergraduate studying at the National University of Singapore. I enjoy building softwares and have experience in Backend, Cloud Infrastructure, and Frontend as well.
My main interests lies in cloud infrastructure, databases, and distributed systems, mainly due to my previous work at Dgraph Labs. At Dgraph, we were building a distributed graph database, and a fully managed cloud database, which was a lot of fun.
Here are some of the technologies I've been working with recently:
Go
Python
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
Prometheus
Grafana
Django
Java
React/Typescript
Experience.
Software Engineer Intern@ Dgraph Labs
August 2022 - July 2023
Dgraph Labs is the company behind Dgraph, an open source, distributed graph database
Worked on the backend and infrastructure of Dgraph Cloud, a managed Database-as-a-Service built on top of Kubernetes, AWS, and a few services written in Go
Managed hundreds of customer databases on Kubernetes, and performed ops/on-call duties including deployments, Kubernetes upgrades, writing automations, monitoring, and incident management. Achieved > 99.9% uptime over the past year
Led the effort to codify our cloud infrastructure with Terraform and drove it to completion
Backend Engineer Intern@ Sea Labs (NYSE: SE)
May 2022 - August 2022
Developed a research paper search engine using Django, MySQL, and Elasticsearch for research scientists at Sea AI Labs (SAIL), which enabled them to search through hundreds of thousands of papers, receive curated lists, and subscribe to daily newsletters
In charge of the release process for the app, which includes writing pre-release checklists, schema migrations, and deployments
Software Engineer Intern@ Trustana
December 2021 - January 2022
Spearheaded the effort to build a marketing site using Next.js and a CMS called Plasmic. Containerized it using Docker to facilitate deployment in the cloud
Created the infrastructure for deployment for a web app in AWS using Terraform. The infrastructure consists of a CDN and a Virtual Private Cloud containing public and private subnets, ECS cluster, logging, and an application load balancer
Frontend Software Engineer Intern@ ErudiFi (YC W18)
May 2021 – August 2021
Built the fourth major iteration of our mobile app from scratch using React Native and TypeScript in less than two months with three other engineers. In doing so, we saw a 52.6% increase in conversion rate within three weeks of launching the update
Built and maintained our own UI components library to cut down development time significantly and used Storybook to document them