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.
10 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 (8)
spring6
spring-boot6
composition3
mirroring1
chaos1
shadow1
resiliency1
testing1
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
springspring-boot
carlsontse/hangman-service
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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