Desmond Soh
Assistant Vice President Software Engineer at Bank of Singapore, Asia's Global Private Bank
Singapore, Singapore
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Top SchoolDesmond Soh is an Assistant Vice President Software Engineer with nine years’ experience building cloud-native, event-driven backend systems primarily in Kotlin and Spring Boot. He has delivered production-critical features across fintech and e-commerce—accelerating Airflow tasks from 10 hours to one minute, launching instant loans and card flows, and improving service throughput for crash symbolication at scale. Comfortable across the stack, he blends backend microservices, data engineering (Airflow, Python, Pandas, Presto) and observability to reduce MTTR and increase reliability. His background includes systems design, L3 incident analysis, and mentoring engineers while guiding architecture and deployment for high-concurrency platforms. A dual engineering and business analytics graduate with an M.Tech in Software Engineering, he brings a pragmatic, performance-first approach and a naval-diver grit that surfaces in high-pressure delivery.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore'A' Levels, 'A' Levels at Saint Andrew's Junior CollegeBusiness and Computer Science, Business and Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMasters of Technology (M.Tech) in Software Engineering, Masters of Technology (M.Tech) in Software Engineering at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese
Github Skills (40)
dns9
alibaba9
discovery9
spring-boot-security9
spring-security-jwt9
spring-cloud9
microservices8
mysql-data8
istio8
service-discovery8
multi-cluster8
hybrid-cloud8
graph8
configuration-management8
service-management8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sohskd/AlgorithmAndPractices
May 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
sohskd/Software-Engineering-Materials
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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