Richard Tan
Senior Software Engineer at Tapendium
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Tan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Greater Melbourne with 11 years of experience building pragmatic, production-ready web and backend systems across startups and large organisations. He’s delivered front-end and backend features at companies like SEEK, PwC and Tapendium, growing from interactive design to leading frontend and backend engineering efforts. Richard contributes to open-source tooling for serverless development—improving the widely used serverless-offline project with path handling, prefix options and integration tests—showing a focus on developer experience and robust configuration. Comfortable across the stack, he blends frontend craft with backend reliability and a knack for refactoring and test-driven improvements that reduce operational friction.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Somerset College
Github Skills (12)
aws-lambda10
nodejs10
javascript10
serverless-framework10
jestjs9
jes9
jtest9
aws-apigateway8
aws-api-gateway-v28
api-design8
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dherault/serverless-offline
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Emulate AWS λ and API Gateway locally when developing your Serverless project
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 17 PRs, 3 pushes in 29 days
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on enhancing the `serverless-offline` project by implementing new features and improving existing functionality related to path handling and configuration options. They added a prefix option to allow for path customization and implemented integration tests to validate the prefix option. Refactoring code into utilities such as `generateHapiPath` was also undertaken. Furthermore, the user addressed issues by fixing star routes and allowing explicit headers within lambda functions.
api-gatewayapidevelopinglambda-functionsaws-lambda
chardos/sizemometer
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Monitoring for front end file sizes
Contributions:11 releases, 39 PRs, 109 pushes in 7 months
front-endmonitoringsizes
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