User:Clarencesiew

Clarence Siew is a Malaysian software engineer from Penang, Malaysia. He has lived in Melbourne, Australia since 2014. He is of both Malaysian Chinese (with roots stretching back to Fujian and Guangdong) and Thai ancestory (via a maternal great-grandmother).

He got his start in software engineering aged 9 when he programmed batch scripts on a Windows XP machine that mimicked the TUI interface of some MS-DOS applications. He eventually moved on to developing a Linux distribution called illume OS (later renamed to Antorca Linux). As both a professional and hobbyist software engineer, he is now largely focused on both backend and frontend web development, with the occassional Python script or application.