Rex Choi

The experienced Application Development Lead, Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer

About me

Hard-working person on the way to the success…

Application development lead with 18+ years of experience in full-stack development, solution architecture, cloud infrastructure and team leadership. Currently leading application development and DevOps at Cloras, covering an online casino platform, real-time H5 games, AWS infrastructure, monitoring and AI-assisted engineering. Strong information technology professional with a Bachelor focused in Computer Science from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Creative

Developing, distributing, supporting, enforcing, and integrating best practices and technology standards

Motivated

To complete a task, even when challenging, without giving up or needing another to encourage.

Punctual

Punctual and dependable in order to meet the needs of client

Personal Info

Name:
Rex Choi
Date of Birth:
23/09/1986

Pro. Experience

  • 01/2023 – present
  • Cloras
  • Application Development Lead
  • 01/2022 – 02/2023
  • Ideograms
  • Director of Application Development
  • 04/2016 – 12/2021
  • Alliance Computer System Ltd.
  • Director of Application Development
Learn More about Rex Choi’s experience

My Professional skills

  • 18+ years of IT experience, including 10+ years leading development teams and projects.
  • Lead application development and DevOps for an online casino platform and its real-time H5 games.
  • Overall architect of BOOKYAY, a Hong Kong and Macau ticketing and e-commerce platform, leading a team of around 10 developers.
  • Structured and revamped 20+ web applications and 30+ online games for one of the largest online casinos in Asia with ReactJS and other cutting-edge technologies.
  • AWS (ECS/Fargate, S3, CloudFront, WAF, Athena, IAM), GitLab CI/CD, Docker and nginx; cut one environment's container compute cost by 68% with Fargate Spot.
  • Monitoring and observability with Prometheus, Grafana, node_exporter and self-hosted Sentry.
  • AI engineering: LLM customer-service assistant with policy-gated escalation, and multi-agent development and QA workflows with Claude Code.
  • Frontend: React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Storybook design systems, PixiJS and Phaser.
  • Established a fully automated build and deployment infrastructure with gitlab runner which reduce release cycle time by 30%+.
  • Excellent communication and Inter-Personal Skills, well organized, goal oriented.