Bowen Chong

experience

• Full-Stack DeveloperOct 2025 - nowCircular Solution · on-site, Korea

  Build and maintain Digital Product Passport platforms for the footwear and automotive industries, and build dataspaces within the Gaia-X, Pontus-X and Catena-X ecosystems. Also set up GitLab CI/CD and monitoring across the company's projects.

• Full-Stack Developer, part-timeJul 2024 - Oct 2025Containerverse · remote, Malaysia

  Built custom systems for client companies, from their requirements through to production, and maintained existing codebases. Among them, a broadband system for Sunway University students. Done alongside a full-time degree.

selected work

• OID4VC for EDCjava · open source

  Replaced Eclipse Dataspace Components' built-in identity protocol with OpenID for Verifiable Credentials, across forks of the Connector and IdentityHub.

• SDCJ Extension2nd place · Gaia-X Tech-X #9

  Cross-jurisdiction identity credentials for Gaia-X, starting with Korea and Japan: SD-JWT with selective disclosure, backed by X.509 chain validation. NestJS and TypeScript.

• Somatypescript · python

  Desktop study app for notes, quizzes and flashcards, with a study-material generator fine-tuned from Llama 3.2 1B. Electron, TypeScript and Python.

• Breeze3rd place · DIVE 2025

  Smartwatch app for marine safety and fishing, built by a team of three. I worked on the Apple Watch app in Swift.

education and awards

• BSc Computer Science2023 - 2025Dongseo University · Busan

  CGPA 4.13 / 4.5. Outstanding Student Award, 2025.

• 2nd place2026Gaia-X Tech-X & Hackathon #9 · Athens

  Selective-Disclosure Cross-Jurisdiction (SDCJ) credentials. The work went into the Gaia-X Danube release.

• 3rd place2025DIVE 2025 Hackathon · Busan

  Track challenge, with a smartwatch app for coastal statistics.

• Excellent Paper Award2024, 2025KICSP Conference · Busan

  Twice: automated question generation with Gemini, and an AI study-support desktop application.

skills

• Languages

  Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust

• Frameworks

  Spring Boot, Node.js, NestJS, Express, Fastify, FastAPI, React, Next.js, Electron, Astro

• Infrastructure

  Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI/CD, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLite

about

I'm from Malaysia and live in South Korea, where I build dataspace software at Circular Solution: how organisations exchange product data and prove who they are.

Outside work I write Neovim plugins. One of them is named after Oyen, my penguin, who is standing on the ice on this page.