Alan Kan

Software Engineer

+61 434 220 172 | [email protected] alankan976 | alank976 | alank976

About Me

I’m a software enthusiast who’s spent 8 years exploring the ins and outs of the FinTech and Investment banking worlds. My coding journey has been a mix of Java, Kotlin, Go, and Python, resulting in a blend of creative solutions and practical experience.

Recently, I’ve immersed myself in the world of Rust, engaging in diverse toy projects that provide a hands-on exploration to develop a taste for it.

In the realm of modern microservices architecture, orchestration is imperative. As the go-to person for Kubernetes, I excel in leveraging tools like Terraform to craft structured infrastructure systems that empower the team’s sustained success, even in my absence.

While I can certainly handle frontend development with React and more, I feel most at home delving into the depths of backend work and the intricacies of DevOps.

Fuelled by an insatiable thirst for knowledge, I actively explore online articles, engage in dev.to discussions, and participate in virtual conferences. I’m committed to shaping the ever-evolving tech landscape by staying ahead of backend, DevOps, and architectural trends

Experience

FinoComp (Bravura Solutions)

Software Engineer Feb 2021 - Present
Technologies: Java, Micronaut, Kafka, k8s, Terraform
  • Developed software within a distributed microservices ecosystem for multiple wealth management platform businesses.
  • Proficiently provisioned, deployed, and managed testing environments and development infrastructures across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises setups, leveraging a highly automated approach.
  • Mentored junior engineers by actively engaging in pair programming and conducting regular knowledge-sharing sessions.
  • Demonstrated proactive involvement in technical design and architectural deliberations.

Mox Bank

Staff Engineer, Backend Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
Technologies: Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kafka, k8s, Istio
  • Developed web services (e.g. SMS/Push/OTP notification & verification) as a part of the distributed system in microservices, event-driven architecture for the FinTech (Virtual Banking) business.
  • Built shared internal framework & libraries incl. Spring Boot starters, Gradle plugins, libraries for OAuth2, API contracts codegen, Kafka, testing framework to make product team developer lives easier.
  • Designed and involved in architecturing, design and implementation, such as fault tolerance, API contract-first design.

Skills

Programming
kotlin, java, groovygo, rustpython, javascript/typescript
Application Framework
spring, micronautgin-gonic, actix, flask, react
Containers & Kubernetes
docker, containerdk3s, helm, rancher, istio
CI/CD
jenkins, circleci, teamcity, github action
Infrastructure as Code
terraformansible
Technical Methodogies & Architectures
microservices, domain-driven design (ddd), event sourcing, cqrstest-driven design (tdd), pair programming
Data & Observabilities
postgres, sql server, kafka, mongodbfluentbit, elastic, kibana, datadog, prometheus, grafana
Authentication
oauth2, fusionauth, keycloak

Languages

English - Fluent

Cantonese - Native

Mandarin - Fluent

Interests

  • Coding
  • Software Craftsmanship
  • Software Architecture
  • Alan Kan

    Software Engineer

    +61 434 220 172 | [email protected] alankan976 | alank976 | alank976

    Experience

    YouTrip

    Software Engineer Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
    Technologies: Go, gRPC, Kafka, k6
    • Developed microservices for different FinTech business domains, e.g. FX, reporting, etc in event-driven architectural design.
    • Promoted best practices about Agile, XP methodologies.
    • Worked with the rest in the company altogether, like DevOps, Product, Data, etc as in a dynamic startup atmosphere.

    Société Générale

    Front Office Developer Jun 2016 - Dec 2018
    Technologies: Java, Kotlin, Spring, Python, CQRS, VBA
    • Developed applications for synthetic prime brokerage, Delta one and Equity finance business in agile software development manner.
    • Worked closely with front office to understand user requirements and identify business priorities.
    • Delivered quality solution to support business growth and also care code cleanliness, and maintainability.
    • Leveraged latest technologies and software craftsmanship methodologies to further improve quality of end product and also team productivity.

    Certifications

    CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

    The Linux Foundation - 2023

    Financial Risk Manager (FRM®)

    Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) - 2015

    Alan Kan

    Software Engineer

    +61 434 220 172 | [email protected] alankan976 | alank976 | alank976

    Education

    City University of Hong Kong

    MSc in Financial Engineering
    2015 - 2016 | GPA: 3.87 / 4.00

    Specialized in financial modelling with programming

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    BSc in Major in Computing and Minor in Business
    2008 - 2011

    Specialized in OOP, Android app development, etc

    Awards

    Quant Finance Lab of CASH Algo Finance Group (CAFG) - Hong Kong

    Team Leader, Inter-University Algo Trading Contest - 2015 - 2016
    • Researched and developed quantitative models, trading algorithms trading program with Python
    • Shortlisted for final round (12 teams picked out of 70)

    Toy Projects

    DigitalOcean Kubernetes Challenge

    2021

    explored, deployed and demonstrated use of vcluster in a DigitalOcean k8s cluster

    A few Rust toy projects developed intermittently

    2020 - 2021

    To acquire a taste for Rust with Actix, Tide, async/await, Cloudflare Workers, and FaunaDB with/without plain old Java dependency injection mindset

    TradeMatching

    2019

    buy & sell trade matching in reactive stream manner using Reactor, Spring webflux and Gradle Kotlin DSL