Summary
Yong Tan is a seasoned platform engineer with 13 years of experience building high-scale, cloud-native infrastructure for complex enterprise environments. Currently leading Standard Chartered’s strategic Apache Kafka programme, he unifies fragmented messaging stacks into a global data and telemetry bus while applying software-engineering rigor to reduce operational complexity. His background spans Kubernetes, OpenShift, Azure DevOps, Terraform, and observability stacks, having modernized ESB platforms, planned multi-datacenter migrations, and rebuilt CI/CD and telemetry pipelines. Known for turning middleware and integration services into productized platforms, he combines hands-on implementation with pragmatic cutover and multi-tenancy strategies. Based in Singapore, he brings a rare mix of financial-industry reliability and systems-level performance tuning rooted in earlier high-frequency trading and genomics-platform work.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Information Technology, Diploma in Information Technology at Temasek Polytechnic
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Wollongong
English, Chinese