👋 Hi, I’m Adrian Goh

I am a Software Engineer @ Open Government Products (OGP) working on Isomer and empowering government to set up better websites - faster and cheaper.

I write my technical learnings and opinions and gave talks at meetups and conferences.

• 📋 29 years old
• 👣 Until 2024: Co-Founder (Product & Engineering) @ NodeFlair (Series A). Single-handledly scaled it to >400k monthly visitors.
• 👣 2017, 2018: Data & Product @ ShopBack
• ⚙️ Tech stacks: .rb .ts .js .py

Other projects:

• 🎨 Image Overlay Generator
• 😎 Alt Text Generator API
• 💎 autogitc (use LLM to write git commit messages)
• 🎮 LinkedIn Queens Game Solver
• 🛠️ Building bebetter.engineer (WIP)

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What I’m learning

• DNS for Developers (nslookup.io)

Some latest blog posts

• 47% Cheaper: Why We Switched from Amazon RDS to Crunchy Bridge
• Migrating From Sidekiq To Solid Queue: Simpler and Cheaper
• Reducing Concurrent Database Queries by 3x
• 4x Faster Query Rewriting ActiveRecord into Raw SQL
• Using Cloudflare's CF-IPCountry to Reduce Latencies by 300ms

Some latest talks

• NUS RH Developers - Tech Careers
• Red Dot Ruby Conference 2024: 1 Engineer, 300,000 Users
• RubySG - Building Scrapers in Ruby