HONGPO CHEN

Designer, Engineer & Builder

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Hongpo — software, design and human experience. I build and ship.

SEE WHAT I'VE BUILT

Singapore · Available from Dec 2026

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TOGATHERSG

Singapore's marketplace for home-based businesses, built around proximity and mobile-first trust.

01 / The problem

Sellers lived across chat threads, spreadsheets and manual transfers. No shared system connected discovery to fulfilment.

02 / The decision

Bring listings, nearby discovery, checkout and vendor tools into one mobile experience.

Lianhe Zaobao feature about TogatherSG and its home-based arts workshop — Lianhe_Zaobao_Feature_2025_

03 / The outcome

TogatherSG Host app listing in the App Store

2 apps

Apps published and live

500%

More customers for participating hosts

Technical appendix

Systems, flows, and product screens. Open to explore.

Built with Supabase, React Native, Expo, and Stripe.

From a host

“I can host classes, not manage customers and payments.”

Togather host

[ 003 — Experience ]

Work

Jul 2025 – Present

DBS Bank

Infrastructure Engineer — Singapore

Built and owned end-to-end Angular, Node.js, PHP and Java applications.
Replaced legacy Perl services with Node.js.
Automated compliant banking deployments with shell-based CI/CD and audit trails.

Angular · Node.js · PHP · Java · Perl · CI/CD · Security

Jul 2023 – Jan 2024

Amplified Industries

Data Engineer Intern — Boston, MA

Built an ELK pipeline and migrated storage to TimescaleDB, improving queries by 30%.
Raised unit-test coverage to 80%.

ELK Stack · Terraform · TimescaleDB · pytest · AWS

Testimony

“Hongpo has been working with us for 6 months and became a real team member at Amplified Industries. Everyone really enjoyed working with him. Smart and hard worker, Hongpo quickly understood all the specific needs of the company and helped us a lot by working on very advanced and complicated data science and OPS subjects. We all wish he could have stayed longer.”

Louis Creteur

CTO — Forbes 30 Under 30, Amplified Industries

May 2022 – Dec 2022

Cynapse

AI Software Engineering Intern — Singapore

(recreated from personal data)

Reached 92% accuracy in real-time video analytics with TensorFlow and PyTorch.
Improved models through data augmentation and deployment work.

TensorFlow · PyTorch · Computer Vision · YOLO