About Me

Professional bits

Hello. My name is Dean Wan.

I am a software engineer located in Melbourne, Australia.

These days I work in Golang, but have previous experience with Ruby (including Rails).

I used to work in the data and analytics space (a "data scientist").

I gave that up because I wanted the satisfaction of seeing my work having a direct and obvious impact.

Now I write code that directly and obviously infuriates my colleagues.

Questions you may have

Q: Why does your site look so rubbish?

A: I genuinely despise writing HTML and CSS. I'll get around to styling this website properly one day.

Q: Why is your Github handle fugu-chop?

A: I don't know. Not everything has a reason.

Q: Why is your site named so?

A: I thought it was funny.

PS: I've no real advice for mitigating production incidents. Maybe don't write any code.

Q: Why was your website so slow when I first visited?

A: Because I'm cheap. The virtual machines on which this website is deployed automatically scale down to zero when there is low traffic to save on cost. Since no-one is visiting this site, it's likely that your request to the site involves a virtual machine having to spin up from a suspended state.