Tan Ming
Senior Product Manager at Pangle
Beijing, Singapore
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolTan Ming is a Senior Product Manager with 10 years of cross-disciplinary experience building data- and systems-driven products across ad tech and logistics, currently leading product at TikTok for Business and Pangle. He blends a strong technical foundation—contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Swoole and Didi’s rdebug, where he optimized HTTP cookie parsing and Docker/Linux-compatible debugging tooling—with product strategy and execution. Comfortable working at the intersection of backend engineering, DevOps, and data, he has a track record of shipping robust infrastructure improvements that improve reliability and developer productivity. His background in engineering and research (NTU and Imperial College) and hands-on roles at Grab, Shopee, and Ninja Van give him domain fluency in geo, routing, and data platforms. Notably, he pairs product intuition with code-level credibility, enabling faster decision cycles with engineering teams. He also brings leadership experience from student governance and international project delivery, reflecting strong stakeholder management and operational rigor.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College LondonA levels, H1General Paper, H2 Biology, H2 Chemistry, H2 Mathematics, H2 Economics, H1 Project Work, H2 Physics, A levels, H1General Paper, H2 Biology, H2 Chemistry, H2 Mathematics, H2 Economics, H1 Project Work, H2 Physics at National Junior CollegeMaster of Science in Technology Management, Renaissance Engineering Programme, Master of Science in Technology Management, Renaissance Engineering Programme at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Malay, English, Chinese
Github Skills (21)
swoole10
debugging10
debug10
php10
code-coverage10
coroutines10
cprogramming-language10
composer10
concurrency10
testing9
dockers9
event-handling9
continuous-integration9
docker9
eventsource9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
didi/rdebug
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
Rdebug — Real Debugger
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 33 commits, 5 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Tan primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `rdebug` project, focusing on features related to dependency management with Composer and code coverage optimization. They improved the build process, optimized the autoloader, and ensured compatibility with Linux and Docker environments. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating and configuring the Koala replayer for debugging and testing purposes.
devtoolsrecordreplaydebugger
swoole/swoole-src
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
🚀 Coroutine-based concurrency library for PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tan primarily focused on optimizing the cookie parsing functionality within the `swoole_http_server.c` file. Their contributions involved modifying the logic to handle cookie parsing, specifically addressing issues related to leading spaces and overall parsing accuracy. The user made several iterative changes, refining the code to ensure cookies are correctly parsed and processed. The changes directly impacted the performance and functionality of the HTTP server within the Swoole library.
concurrencyasynchronouseventconcurrency-libraryphp
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