Yong Sheng Tan

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Financial technology professional with 11+ years of experience across software development, business analysis and production support looking to further career in a technical or product/platform development role. Adept in managing software delivery lifecycles with a keen understanding of enterprise systems and cloud architecture.

Experience

1. Orkes
2. Jan 2024 - Present

Senior Solutions Architect

• Launched APAC office tasked with establishing regional presence for sales, consulting, developer relations
• Led pre-sales engineering, technical account management and solutions architecture for non-US customers
• Responsible for technical customer success in converting platform investment into realised business value
• Organised developer meet-up events and presented at key business and technical conferences regionally

1. Symphony Communications
2. Feb 2019 – Jan 2024

Manager, Developer Solutions

• Led engineering team that delivers Symphony’s suite of developer tools for building bots and integrations
• Responsible for product roadmap, backlog grooming, delivery management and customer engagement
• Bridged customer domains with technical requirements to ensure developer tools were fit-for-purpose
• Delivered greenfield workflow studio product that facilitates non-developers in building workflows
• Liaised with FINOS to maintain standards of open source project delivery and community contributions

Developer Relations Technical Lead

• Pioneering lead of team tasked to scale engagement and education of Symphony’s developer community
• Subject matter expert on best practices for using developer tools to build solutions for markets use-cases
• Built certification program from scratch, comprising course material, demos, videos, exams and badges
• Developed and ran assets including a developer portal, training center, forum and documentation site
• Organised global events like developer meetups, hackathons, webinars and Innovate conferences

1. GIC
2. Jun 2016 – Feb 2019

Engineering Lead, Enterprise Applications Technology

• Led engineering on a new cross-asset CRM platform that pioneered use of cloud-native architecture
• Responsible for scoping requirements, delivery, deployments, support and managing team of developers
• Key developer on innovation award-winning platform for sharing investment ideas across asset classes

Developer, Public Equities Analytics

• Built Tableau dashboards visualising portfolio exposure, performance and facets for public equities teams
• Led development of equities data mart, designing the structure and ETL workflows in Informatica
• Optimised performance of dashboards through tuning of Oracle databases and batch automation

1. NatWest Markets
2. Sep 2013 – Mar 2016

Support Analyst, Sales and Trading Analytics

• Provided regional production support for the business intelligence suite used by sales and trading desks
• Responsible for coverage mappings that ensure accurate distribution and reporting of sales income flows
• Built data visualisation dashboards that enabled decision analysis for the APAC wind down programme

Business Analyst, Market Risk Technology

• Managed delivery of in-house market risk platform, liaising with risk managers and engineering
• Mitigated impact to risk sensitivity and VaR metrics from upstream changes through tolerance analysis
• Developed an interactive guide that highlights relationships of sensitivities used to risk manage products

Developer, Operations Technology

• Developed VBA-based tools for operations teams to enable reconciliation, clearing, reporting functions
• Pioneered usage of Python to facilitate straight-through reconciliation of counterparty settlement data

Education

1. Singapore Management University
2. Aug 2009 – Jul 2013

BSc (Information Systems Management), summa cum laude

Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, VMware Spring Professional 2021, Oracle Java Professional