• name: "Tan Zhen Yong"
• about: "A nerd for software engineering, cybersecurity and coffee."
• url: "www.beyondthesprawl.com"
• email: "tzy|@|beyondthesprawl|.|com, but without the |"
• linkedin: "linkedin.com/in/tan-zhen-yong"
• github: "github.com/Xenonym"
• location: "Singapore"
• experience: [{"role":"Software Engineer, FICC Technology","organisation":"Bank of America - Singapore","url":"business.bofa.com/content/boaml/en_us/home.html","start_date":"Jan 2022","current":true,"details":["Design and develop trade pricing and risk applications for Global Markets in Python on the Quartz platform.","Work with global development teams to deliver enhancements and maintain existing platforms in a timely manner.","Work with global traders and other front office users to gather and deliver business requirements."]},{"role":"Backend Web Engineer","organisation":"bantu - Singapore","url":"workspace.bantu.life","start_date":"Aug 2019","end_date":"Nov 2021","details":["bantu is a social enterprise that provides volunteer and community management systems geared for non-profits and charities.","Maintenance and enhancement of bantu Workspace community management system.","Mentor new interns on development and best practices."]},{"role":"Backend Web Engineer Intern","organisation":"bantu - Singapore","url":"workspace.bantu.life","start_date":"Jun 2019","end_date":"Aug 2019","details":["bantu is a social enterprise that provides volunteer and community management systems geared for non-profits and charities.","Created a development and issue reporting process for the development and QA team, and set up CI/CD, code analysis and code review workflows.","Created a new payment processing and subscription system integrating with Stripe.","Mentored a fellow intern on React, JS, Git and software engineering best practices."]},{"role":"R&D Intern","organisation":"CyberInt - Israel","url":"cyberint.com","start_date":"Jan 2018","end_date":"Jun 2018","details":["CyberInt is a leading cybersecurity managed services provider for threat intelligence, managed SOCs and cybersecurity consulting.","Led a team of three interns in implementing new source acquisition methods for the Argos threat intelligence platform, used by threat analysts in both CyberInt and SingTel as part of their managed security services offering.","Assisted the intelligence team with intelligence gathering and analysis of Mandarin source materials as part of a service evaluation with Citibank APAC."]},{"role":"R&D Intern","organisation":"National Institute of Technology, Matsue College - Japan","url":"www.matsue-ct.jp","start_date":"Oct 2013","end_date":"Nov 2013","details":["The National Institute of Technology, Matsue College is an engineering-focused teaching and research institute in Matsue, Japan.","Created a motion-based interface to allow users to control humanoid robots with a Kinect sensor for research into bipedal robots."]}]
• education: [{"degree":"BComp (Hons) in Computer Science + USP","school":"National University of Singapore","start_date":"Aug 2016","end_date":"June 2020","special_programmes":[{"name":"University Scholars Programme (USP)","url":"usp.nus.edu.sg","about":"The University Scholars Programme (USP) is an undergraduate academic programme that aims to shape independent, adaptable thinkers and doers who will make an impact in the world. USP provides students with an innovative curriculum, diverse global opportunities and a transformative learning environment. Each year, around 200 incoming NUS students are admitted to USP. "},{"name":"NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) Israel","url":"enterprise.nus.edu.sg/educate/nus-overseas-colleges","about":"The NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) Programme is an internship programme with strong emphasis on technology entrepreneurship. Selected candidates will spend either 6 or 12 months with a high-tech start-up and take entrepreneurship courses at a designated partner university."}]},{"course":"Foundations of Entrepreneurship","school":"Tel Aviv University","start_date":"Jan 2018","end_date":"Jun 2018"},{"degree":"Diploma with Merit in Digital Forensics","school":"Temasek Polytechnic","start_date":"Apr 2011","end_date":"Apr 2014","awards":["Fujitsu Asia Silver Course Medal (2nd in cohort)","ISACA Singapore Chapter Prize (Highest grade for Application Forensics course)"]}]
• skills: {"languages":["Java","JavaScript","Python","Swift","C","C++","PHP","HTML","CSS"],"technologies":{"front_end":["Vue","React","Svelte"],"back_end":["Flask","Laravel"],"databases":["MySQL / MariaDB","CouchDB","MongoDB"],"tooling":["Bootstrap","Tailwind CSS","Git","Github","GitLab"],"scripting":["Bash","PowerShell"],"forensics":["AccessData FTK","EnCase"],"video_editing":["Adobe Premiere","After Effects"]}}
• projects: {"MarkBind":{"about":"An open source static site generator for content-heavy sites such as textbooks or project documentation built in Node.JS, Vue and Bootstrap.","url":"markbind.org"},"AutoAuth":{"about":"A passwordless authentication system for web applications based on device fingerprinting built in JS.","url":"github.com/cs3235-autoauth"},"Intelli":{"about":"A relationship tracker and intelligence tool built in Java."},"DOgether":{"about":"A social task manager app for iOS devices built in Swift."},"WebAnatomy":{"about":"A forensic web crawler, my final year project in Temasek Polytechnic, subsequently deployed at the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) for monitoring web vandalism built in PHP and Python."}}