John Engelo Chew
John works on the full-stack development of the Cambridge Mathematics Framework, contributing to the technical infrastructure that brings Cambridge Mathematics' research and evidence-based products and services to educators and learners. His work spans frontend interfaces, backend services, and the development of AI-integrated tools that support the team's ongoing digital work.
John's journey into technology started the way it does for a lot of developers: by taking things apart to see how they work. What began as dismantling broken electronics as a child gradually grew into building things: custom circuitry, hardware projects, and eventually software. He is a self-taught developer who found his way into machine learning during a period when resources were sparse and figuring things out meant digging deep, working on biometric systems and computer vision before the field had the mainstream tooling it does today.
Underpinning all of this is John’s long-held belief that open access to knowledge matters. Much of what he knows comes from years of curiosity and freely available resources, which is part of what draws him to the work of Cambridge Mathematics: building tools that help make rigorous, evidence-based mathematics education more accessible to learners and educators everywhere.