Summary
Boon L is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience delivering reliable, scalable systems across fintech, travel, and enterprise environments, based in Singapore. He has deep experience with functional programming and a hands-on track record in Elixir (BlockFi) and Scala-based data pipelines (McLaren) and backend services. At Wego, he led improvements in testing and reliability, introducing tools like coveralls, dialyzer, pre-commit, and increasing test coverage above 70%, while resolving intermittent race-condition issues causing duplicate records. His work spans building backend services from scratch (BlockFi's credit card product) to leading product engineering at Standard Chartered, where he implemented CI/CD and contributed to core recommendation algorithms. He holds a Master of IT in Business Analytics from Singapore Management University and a Bachelor in Computing from NUS, blending analytics with software craftsmanship. Based in Singapore, he brings a pragmatic, analytics-minded approach to engineering challenges, with a track record of shipping high-quality, observable systems.
11 years of coding experience