Carlson Tse
Principal Engineer at Collinson
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCarlson Tse is a Principal Engineer with nearly two decades of hands-on experience designing resilient, multi-tenant platforms and driving enterprise architectural change. He excels at aligning long-term platform vision with immediate business value, having led API-first, gRPC, and multi-tenant standardization efforts that saved significant operational cost and reduced client duplication. Carlson has a strong track record at large travel tech firms—modernizing partner B2B systems, decommissioning legacy gateways, and establishing organization-wide RFC/ADR governance—while mentoring engineers and cultivating platform ergonomics. Technically fluent in Java/Kotlin, TypeScript, Spring, gRPC and AWS, he pairs pragmatic decision-making with a knack for developer experience improvements (CI/CD, proto governance, interactive docs). Based in the UK and a Waterloo CS alumnus, he combines deep platform architecture skills with a persistent focus on operational excellence and measurable outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics in Honours Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics in Honours Computer Science Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (11)
shadow8
traffic7
spring6
spring-boot6
java5
composition2
chaos1
mirroring1
hygiene1
testing1
resiliency1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
egencia/dr-shadow
Apr 2019 - Nov 2019
Shadow traffic library for Spring Boot applications
Contributions:23 commits, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 7 months
spring-bootshadowspringtrafficjava
carlsontse/hangman-service
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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