Summary
Deon Tan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Singapore with a decade of experience building distributed systems and delivery pipelines across fintech and product startups. He works daily in Clojure/ClojureScript, SQL, JavaScript, Ruby and Python, and brings deep functional-programming and static-typing sensibilities to full-stack problems—from Postgres-backed services to React/Reagent frontends and React-Native mobile. Currently at a stealth fintech and running Lucky Macro as Director, he combines hands-on implementation with product-minded leadership. He is passionate about language design and programming-language theory, and has explored a wide set of languages and paradigms (OCaml, Haskell, Elm, ReScript) that inform pragmatic API and system design choices. Comfortable with infrastructure tooling like Docker, Terraform, Kafka and AWS, he focuses on reliable delivery and observable, maintainable systems. An habitual tinkerer with paren-oriented languages, he brings a research-influenced approach to practical engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience