Abel Tay
Staff Software Engineer at GovTech Singapore
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolAbel Tay is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, maintainable systems across Singapore’s public sector, currently shaping engineering practices at GovTech. He has led Agile teams at GovTech, SP Group and the Ministry of Education to deliver production services used by thousands, consistently improving robustness and delivery processes. A hands-on technologist who enjoys experimenting with new approaches, Abel blends systems thinking with pragmatic engineering to tackle complex problems end-to-end. He’s also a long-standing co-organiser of the Go SG meetup since 2017, helping grow the local Go community and foster peer learning—an indication of his commitment to knowledge sharing beyond day-to-day delivery.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Github Skills (77)
postgresql10
windows10
bash10
linter10
goorm10
static-analysis10
linux10
sqlboiler10
golang10
shell10
golint10
database10
cli10
gitlab-ce10
subcommands10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
abeltay/advent-of-code-2023
Nov 2023 - Oct 2025
My attempt at https://adventofcode.com/2023
Contributions:1 PR, 41 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
advent-of-code-2023gogolang
abeltay/dotfiles
Feb 2019 - Jan 2026
Contributions:115 pushes, 12 branches in 6 years 11 months
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