Alan Tai
Principal Software Architect at Zühlke Group
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Tai is a Principal Software Architect based in London with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering complex, scalable systems across fintech, social media, and embedded domains. He has led architecture and delivery at Zühlke after driving high-traffic consumer apps at 9GAG and payment/IoT projects earlier in his career, bringing deep expertise in cloud-native stacks (AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, serverless), microservices, and mobile platforms. Skilled at bridging product and engineering, he has repeatedly modernized legacy systems into resilient, data-driven services for banks, virtual banks, and consumer platforms. His background in electrical and electronic engineering informs a practical understanding of embedded and mobile constraints, allowing him to optimize solutions from device firmware to distributed cloud backends. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who turns ambitious ideas into production reality while mentoring teams through complex migrations and platform builds.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
English, Chinese
Github Skills (23)
keyboard7
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maven5
publish5
leiningen5
sbt4
gradle4
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android4
macos4
artifact3
karabiner3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ayltai/GitHub-Extensions
Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:15 commits in 4 months
ayltai/GitHub-Extensions-Firefox
Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:11 commits in 4 months
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