Daniel Chew

Software Engineer

Summary

Software engineer with experience leading high-impact work across blockchain infrastructure, financial data systems, and cloud architecture. Currently building Robinhood Chain, Robinhood Wallet, and Robinhood Stock Tokens infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets. First engineering hire at Pyth Network, incubated by Jump Trading, building real-time financial infrastructure from 0 to 1 and scaling it from 1 to 100 into production systems used by protocols with more than $7B in total value secured at peak. Previously at AWS, combined cloud architecture, consulting, and post-sales delivery for public sector customers, translating business requirements into secure, scalable AWS implementations. Graduated with distinction from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Computing (Honours) in Computer Science.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2026 - Present

Robinhood

  • Building Robinhood Chain, contributing to blockchain infrastructure and core product development
  • Contributing to Robinhood Wallet across crypto wallet product and infrastructure work
  • Working on Robinhood Stock Tokens, tokenized real-world assets that provide economic exposure to shares and ETFs

Software Engineer

Sep 2021 - Aug 2025 · 4 yrs

Douro Labs/Pyth Data Association (Pyth Network)

  • Joined as the first engineering hire, working as a full stack engineer across website and backend systems
  • Migrated production database from Amazon Timestream to ClickHouse, achieving 4x faster queries and 3x lower costs
  • Built end-to-end data infrastructure including ingestion pipeline, analytics, and historical price data service from scratch, now a core product used by thousands of protocols
  • Developed the algorithm that ranks and rewards data publishers, key to incentivizing the ecosystem
  • Redesigned and rebuilt the main website (Gatsby to Next.js), built the staking website from scratch, and developed the internal governance portal
  • Delivered smart contracts on EVM, TON (Telegram Open Network), Fuel Network and more
  • Wrote queries and created dashboards on Dune for Pyth metrics (token and staking), resulting in over 100k views, 500+ forks and 600+ stars
  • Held technical workshops on integrating Pyth into on-chain and off-chain applications across multiple countries (Seoul, Singapore, Virtual) for 100+ developers
  • Maintained and implemented new features for Pyth's main price feeds contract and monitoring/alerting systems

Associate Cloud Architect

Sep 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

Amazon Web Services

  • Fully 12/12 AWS Certified within 7 months time of joining the company
  • Developed PoC for a local government organisation on creating isolated compute environments to protect sensitive data such as PII, healthcare, financial and intellectual property data through AWS Nitro Enclaves
  • Implemented ETL data processing and querying in a serverless data lake with the use of RDS, S3, Glue, and Athena
  • Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) of 10/10
  • Deployed landing zone for a local public sector organisation, which serves as a home for organisations and their accounts. Implemented multi-account strategy for organisations, such as central logging solution and wrote automation scripts to provision infrastructure through customisations for AWS Control Tower

Software Engineer

Jan 2018 - Dec 2018 · 1 yr

ChromaWay

  • Full-stack developer, mostly using the rapid prototyping process to build applications, using in-house, open-sourced, blockchain platform Postchain as backend
  • Worked on building the compiler for Rell (a language for relational blockchain programming) to compile it to SQL. Rell is much more type-safe than SQL, allows for meta-programming and is up to 7x more compact than SQL
  • Created detached contract template in an ASiC container. The detached contract template takes the values in the smart contract and makes a text document with legal text between the fields
  • Worked on developing the application for Green Assets Wallet which is the world's first blockchain based platform for easy validation and impact reporting of green bonds
  • Wrote unit tests for the application build, configure deployment to server, work with SQL database, and user interface implementation
  • Presented to an audience of over 100 people about the company's technology

Education

Bachelor of Computing (Honours) in Computer Science

National University of Singapore

Distinction. Focus area in Software Engineering.

Skills

RustPythonJavaScriptJavaCSolidity (EVM)FunC (TON)Sway (Fuel)NextJSTailwind CSSAWSReactReact NativeExpoSwiftClickHousePostgresDynamoDBFirebase