Backend-focused web developer passionate about building scalable, compliant enterprise systems and improving user experiences through continuous learning and thoughtful product development. Experienced in Go and Python high-performance services, integrating APIs and notification systems, optimizing performance (caching, lazy loading), and delivering reliable deployments with observability and CI/CD.

Danison Tan

Backend-focused web developer passionate about building scalable, compliant enterprise systems and improving user experiences through continuous learning and thoughtful product development. Experienced in Go and Python high-performance services, integrating APIs and notification systems, optimizing performance (caching, lazy loading), and delivering reliable deployments with observability and CI/CD.

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Backend-focused web developer passionate about building scalable, compliant enterprise systems and improving user experiences through continuous learning and thoughtful product development.
Experienced in Go and Python high-performance services, integrating APIs and notification systems, optimizing performance (caching, lazy loading), and delivering reliable deployments with observability and CI/CD.

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Language

English
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Aragonese
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Work Experience

Software Engineer (Mid) at PylonAI (Tiong Seng Group)
August 1, 2025 - Present
Developed and maintained backend services using FastAPI, including restoring an EC2 service (~140 DAU) within 30 minutes by renewing an expired EC2 SSL certificate and preventing prolonged login outages in production. Designed and implemented an end-to-end event-driven notification system using cron jobs and WebSockets to enable real-time and scheduled notifications. Improved multi-product monitoring by implementing centralized Grafana dashboards (Loki + Prometheus) with custom alert thresholds for proactive issue detection. Standardized external API authentication for 2 integrations by building a centralized token refresh service in Docker, eliminating duplicated logic and reducing auth failures. Built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines to automate Docker image deployment, remote EC2 updates, and service restarts for consistent one-click production releases.
Cloud Enterprise Software Engineer at Olli on APAC (formerly STT Cloud)
March 1, 2023 - August 31, 2024
Handled backend engineering for enterprise systems, with performance and reliability improvements across APIs, database integration, and compliance-related workflows.
Cloud Enterprise Software Engineer at Olli on APAC (formerly STT Cloud)
October 1, 2022 - August 31, 2024
Automated financial compliance workflows. Managed the Go backend codebase, reducing issue resolution time by ~40%. Designed and implemented RESTful and gRPC APIs with 95% test coverage to support compliance workflows, improving system reliability by ~20%. Optimized request handling using Go concurrency (goroutines and channels) to enable parallel I/O-bound task processing and reduce latency under high-load conditions. Transitioned services from GoRMV2 to GoRMV1 leveraging an internal library, improving compatibility and stability by ~20%. Integrated Neo4j graph database to support multiple services behind an API and improved query response time by ~25% (using PostgreSQL for detailed requests).
Elective / Internship (listed as 'Elcairm Science') at Elcairm Science
February 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022

Education

BSc Computer Science (Honours) at University of London
January 11, 2030 - July 13, 2026
Unit / Programme at MUBiG incubation programme
January 11, 2030 - July 13, 2026

Qualifications

Unity Certified Associate: Game Developer
January 11, 2030 - July 13, 2026
EC2 SSL certificate renewal (operational achievement)
January 11, 2030 - July 13, 2026
Unity Certified Associate: Game Developer (C#)
January 11, 2030 - July 13, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics, Financial Services, Gaming

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