Summary
Boon Tek is a Principal Software Engineer based in Singapore with over two decades of experience in web and JVM architecture, and 11 years of recent professional experience shaping cloud-native and enterprise systems. A long-time practitioner across insurance, banking, telecommunications, medical IT and military scientific support, he blends deep domain knowledge with hands-on design and delivery. For the past five years he has been an early adopter and specialist in Kotlin, driving modern JVM practices in production SaaS platforms and legacy-modernization efforts. He has held senior roles from Staff Engineer to VP at firms such as BlackRock and Prudential, and now leads technical strategy and implementation at DKATALIS. Known for translating complex legacy requirements into scalable cloud solutions, he brings a pragmatic engineering approach informed by both financial systems and mission-critical software.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc., Computer Science and Mathematics, B. Sc., Computer Science and Mathematics at Purdue University