Steve Tan
Cleaner at Vanilla Capital
Singapore
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSteve Tan is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years in tech, including 8.5 years at Ninja Van where he grew a single team into a 6-team vertical of 42 engineers and led high-impact projects like a rapid-build mobile dashboard and large-scale API re-architecture. He combines hands-on architecture and product delivery—from building high-availability systems at Qanvast serving millions of monthly requests to designing partner integrations with major marketplaces—while experimenting with innovative team models like augmented and autonomous outsourced teams. Based in Singapore, he has a track record of accelerating delivery (e.g., shipping a mobile app in 3 months with 50% contractors) and improving API reliability and latency at scale. An entrepreneurial builder at heart, he also founded JalanJalan.sg, securing government support and funding to preserve local heritage through apps and tours.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
textmate5
sublime5
sublime-text4
arduino3
sublime-text-plugin3
arduino-ide2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Qanvast/cannon
Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:70 commits, 12 pushes in 4 months
Spot-Tech/Spot-Core
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:10 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
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