Raymond Tay
Senior Career Coach at Packt
Singapore
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Top SchoolRaymond Tay is a seasoned engineering leader and senior career coach based in Singapore with over 20 years in software and 14 years of recorded industry experience, currently heading SW AMS Asia at Thales while coaching at Nanyang Business School. He specializes in ultra-low-latency systems, high-performance computing, and scalable production engineering, blending research-driven experimentation (OpenCL, CUDA, Akka) with pragmatic product delivery for domains from ATM and aviation to electronic trading and gaming. Raymond has led global, cross-functional teams to build cloud-scale platforms, PaaS offerings, and mission-critical distributed systems, consistently emphasizing software craftsmanship and cybersecurity. He is a published author—co-author of Developing an Akka Edge and author of the OpenCL Parallel Programming Cookbook—translating academic research into practical developer guidance. A hands-on technologist who still codes in Scala and C++, he is known for turning exploratory R&D into deployable systems and for rebuilding complex trading stacks using functional programming. Beyond titles, Raymond’s uncommon strength is pairing deep parallel-computing expertise with operational delivery across regulated, safety-critical domains.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Major in Compiler Theory and Computer Algorithms, Bachelor of Computer Science Major in Compiler Theory and Computer Algorithms at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (102)
python10
scala-native10
big-data10
sql10
compiler10
apache10
java10
scala10
apache-flink10
dotty10
modular9
reactive9
akka9
high-performance9
streaming9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
raymondtay/slacks
Nov 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:85 pushes in 3 years 6 months
raymondtay/LearningHaskell
Mar 2013 - Oct 2022
Contributions:752 commits, 591 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 8 months
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