Wenli Wan
Lead Engineer at Grab
Singapore
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Top SchoolWenli Wan is a lead engineer based in Singapore with 13 years of experience building resilient, large-scale streaming and data platforms. He specializes in Kafka ecosystems—clients, Connect, Debezium, stream SDKs in Go, and in-house stream processing frameworks—balancing code quality with pragmatic product delivery. At Grab he owns Kafka Stream SDKs and MySQL binlog streaming, focuses on retry and dead-letter handling for high-throughput systems, and has contributed to upstream projects like Sarama. His background spans end-to-end data infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, Presto, Kafka, and real-time ETL from his BTC.com and Shopee work. A self-driven learner who “stays curious and keeps asking questions,” he combines deep systems knowledge with practical DevOps and observability experience. Notably, he has a track record of shipping both platform-level tooling and production analytics that survive extreme loads.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Distinction) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Distinction) Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (59)
ingress-controller10
oh-my-zsh10
docker10
shutdown10
controller10
python10
kafka10
bash10
rails10
apache10
sarama10
java10
cli-app10
scala10
homebrew10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wanwenli/kafka
Jul 2016 - May 2021
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 10 months
kafka-streamsapache-kafkakafka-consumerapacheproducer
swwl1992/apps.wanwenli.com
Jan 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 12 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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