Gavin Fong
Senior Software Engineer at Engine by Starling
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGavin Fong is a senior software engineer based in London with 10 years of backend and systems experience building resilient, cloud-native microservices for high-traffic financial and payments platforms. He specializes in Java Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS and NoSQL stores like DynamoDB and Cassandra, and has delivered production systems supporting 500K+ customers and 500K+ daily transactions. Gavin blends a strong product mindset with hands-on architecture and performance tuning—designing real-time data pipelines, stream processing, and observability for mission-critical services. He mentors engineers, drives DevOps practices and has led platform initiatives at major banks and fintechs, including implementing container platforms and API-driven architectures. An active technical writer with 3K+ Medium followers and maintained open-source projects, he’s recently been exploring Go to bring simpler, high-performance tooling into his backend toolkit.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)1-year student exchange programme, 1-year student exchange programme at Tulane UniversityHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
spring-boot-starter9
spring-reactive9
webflux9
stream8
spring-boot8
java8
forex8
spring8
reactive7
java-stream-api7
api7
spring-security6
nodejs1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gavinklfong/spring-online-supermarket
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
gavinklfong/reactive-spring-forex-trade
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
Reactive Spring Boot - Forex Trade
Contributions:1 release, 111 commits, 8 PRs in 7 months
spring-bootforexspring-boot-reactivespring-reactivetrade
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