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An illustrated engineering project map: RelayFence establishes boundaries, BranchHarbor manages versioned state, and WattMosaic turns incomplete sensor readings into forecasts.

Chong Xian

Software engineering · secure systems · applied machine learning

Building systems where trust boundaries, failure modes, and measurable behavior are part of the design.

Explore my work · Engineering principles · LinkedIn


Based in Singapore. I work across backend and systems engineering, developer infrastructure, practical ML, and security-minded software. I prefer reproducible demonstrations and explicit limitations to claims a repository cannot substantiate.

Selected work

Project Engineering focus Explore
RelayFence Experimental mTLS egress gateway with destination policy, live revocation, and auditable connection handling. Go · network security Architecture · Verification
BranchHarbor Single-node versioned workspace system using scoped capabilities, content-addressed state, optimistic concurrency, and recovery. Go · backend systems API · Verification
FaultBraid Experimental three-voter Raft workbench for fault injection, replay, reduction, and inspectable correctness evidence. Go · distributed systems Architecture · Verification report
WattMosaic Forecasting campus energy demand when sensor readings are incomplete, with explicit missingness patterns and evaluation boundaries. Python · applied ML Methodology · Notebook

More from the engineering lab

Project Question explored
BatchQuay How do original C++ transformer inference mechanics, request-owned KV pages, and bounded scheduling behave under cancellation and contention?
RillScope How can a query compiler enforce host-defined data access boundaries without trusting user-supplied scope?
FacetQuarry What changes when nearest-neighbor search must respect tenant and metadata filters, with measured recall and work budgets?
Driftline · EffectLatch Exploratory developer tooling and bounded WebAssembly runtime work; refer to each repository for its current maturity and limitations.

These are engineering experiments, not blanket production-readiness claims. Current support, validation status, and known limitations are documented in the relevant repositories.

How I approach engineering

01 — Bound authority. Make the trust model, permissions, and operational scope explicit.

02 — Test failure paths. Treat concurrency, malformed input, cancellation, and recovery as first-class behavior.

03 — Show the evidence. Pair implementation with reproducible commands, meaningful tests, and source-bound results.

04 — State the limits. Distinguish completed verification from work still in progress.

Languages and areas

Languages: Go · Python · Rust · C++ · JavaScript/TypeScript · SQL

Areas: Backend and distributed systems · Security engineering · Developer infrastructure · Applied machine learning · Data-intensive applications · Full-stack development

My repositories demonstrate different levels of maturity across these areas; the code and evidence tell the detailed story.

Connect

LinkedIn · Browse repositories

For reproducible bugs, implementation questions, or documentation feedback, open an issue in the relevant repository.

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  1. branchharbor branchharbor Public

    Experimental single-node versioned workspace store with scoped HTTP clients and journal recovery.

    Go 1

  2. effectlatch effectlatch Public

    Experimental Rust/WebAssembly runtime for bounded tools; acceptance and security testing remain incomplete.

    Rust 1

  3. WattMosaic WattMosaic Public

    Sensor-missingness forecasting notebook with 16 availability masks, core/specialist routing and data-free smoke checks.

    Jupyter Notebook 1

  4. relayfence relayfence Public

    Experimental single-host mTLS egress gateway with exact destination policy, live revocation and reproducible socket tests.

    Go 1

  5. faultbraid faultbraid Public

    Experimental three-voter Raft correctness workbench: explicit faults, replay, reduction and inspectable engineering evidence

    HTML

  6. rillscope rillscope Public

    Experimental policy-aware query compiler and bounded executor. Verification status and limitations are documented.

    Python