Herdy Handoko is a pragmatic technical lead based in Singapore with 15 years’ experience delivering end-to-end systems across finance, mining, and tech sectors, and has led platform and JVM/Kubernetes modernisation efforts at organisations such as Apple and Standard Chartered. He blends hands-on engineering with people and vendor management, mentoring teams, running blameless postmortems, and driving DevOps and observability improvements to reduce toil and speed delivery. A strong advocate of functional programming, the actor model and distributed systems, he has implemented Scala/Akka solutions, migrated legacy batches to modern Spring and Kubernetes platforms, and contributed open-source tooling for schema migrations and PDF rendering. He’s an active community speaker and organiser—helping run the Singapore Scala group and presenting regionally on topics from container orchestration to micro-frontends—bringing a rare mix of practical delivery focus and deep interest in concurrency and system design.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information Management, Information Management, Master of Information Management, Information Management at The University of Western Australia
Bachelor of Commerce, International Business and Information Systems, Bachelor of Commerce, International Business and Information Systems at Curtin University
Example of a RealWorld app backend powered by Scala + http4s
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