Hi, my name’s Evan and I’m a software engineer. I am Malaysian and am currently situated in the UK.

Aside from spending my days writing code and tinkering with interesting pieces of software, I also enjoy searching for good food to eat and lifting semi-heavy weights.

I have mostly worked on backend systems throughout my career but am capable working in a full stack capacity.

Deliveroo, UK

Staff Software Engineer

May 2021 - Present

• Tech lead of the order-tracker engineering team.
• Drove the team’s database migration project from ideation to completion; bringing down data storage costs by ~85%.
• Lead and developed a feature to allow customers to tip their riders through a web interface.
• Improved the accuracy of the estimated amount of time it would take for an order to arrive at the customer’s address.
• Enhanced the consumer experience for when an order required more than one rider to deliver to an address.
• Created software solutions to ensure that the org complied with the regulations defined for delivering orders containing age-restricted products.
• Developed software to help reduce teams’ operational costs (org-wide).
• Part of an internal committee that reviews technical design documents produced from within the tech org.
• Tech stack: Ruby, RubyOnRails, Golang, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Kafka, Git, Docker, Terraform, AWS

AlphaSights, UK

Software Engineer

October 2019 - May 2021

• Part of the Finance & BI engineering team.
• Introduced QoL features to the internal invoicing and payment system (pagination, PDF rendering, speeding up page load time).
• Developed an automated system to calculate and generate performance pay for employees.
• Built DAGs on Apache Airflow to extract data out of OLTP databases and into reports for data analytics.
• Tech stack: Ruby, RoR, Python, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, Airflow, RabbitMQ, Git, Docker, Spinnaker, AWS

FactSet, UK

Software Engineer

January 2016 - September 2019

• Designed and executed solutions to process and manage big data sets supplied by financial data vendors.
• Implemented web services to expose specific financial data sets to client workstations.
• Maintained and created workflows to automate the retrieval and storage of processed financial data feeds.
• Tech stack: Perl, Bash, C++, Python, Perforce, MySQL

Clown-CMS

A web app that allows a group of users to to log their sales activity.

Features include:-

• Full-text search
• Server-side pagination
• File upload/download
• CRUD capabilities
• Registration + Login
• AuthN + AuthZ
• Admin control panel

Built withAngular as the frontend,Kotlin as the backend, andPostgreSQL as the data source. The app is hosted onHeroku whereas the database resides onAWS (RDS).

Alfred-bot

A slack bot responsible for helping teams manage their operational rotas; written inGolang.

The bot is currently being actively maintained (by me + in a private repo) and used within my current workplace but aninitial iteration of its source code/features can be seen under my personal GH repo.

Features include:-

• Create a rota.
• Update a rota’s details & settings.
• View a rota’s details & settings.
• Delete a rota from the channel.
• Start/Stop a rota shift.
• Directly override a shift with a different rota member.
• Schedule a rota shift in advance.
• Automatically alert the channel when the rota shift changes.
• Automatically skip over a rota member that’s on holiday/OOO.
• Customize the message shown when the rota shift changes.

University of Manchester, UK

MSc Advanced Computer Science

2014 - 2015

RMIT University, Australia

BSc Computer Science

2010 - 2013