James Tan Y.J. Email & Phone Number

Singapore

Mountain View, California, US

Santa Clara, California, US

Santa Clara, California, US

• Manage a fast growing team of top consultants and architects across the region.
• Scope and manage delivery of large Professional Services engagements across the region.
• Responsible for P/L, margins, etc.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Manage a fast growing team of top consultants and architects across the region.
• Scope and manage delivery of large Professional Services engagements across the region.
• Still enjoy being hands-on and technical.
• Key focus on ASEAN and India markets.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Trusted advisor and solutions architect for Big Data Hadoop use cases, as well as data ingestion, performance optimisation, etc.
• Special focus on Kafka, Flume, Spark, and HBase.
• Work closely with the top financial institutions and telcos in the region, on clusters with hundreds of nodes and petabytes of data.
• Very hands on in all aspects including Linux systems and Hadoop configuration, software development (Java, Scala).

New York, NY, US

• Continue working closely with EMEA customers, particularly building long term relationships with large Enterprise customers, such as those in manufacturing (IoT), telecommunications, and banking.
• Trusted advisor and Technical Account Manager.
• Took on additional role of managing and training consulting subcontractors, building up and refining the related processes. Technical expert with onsite engagements to clients across Europe and Israel.
• Special focus on schema design, performance tuning, deployment architecture, and operations, including disaster recovery, and automation.
• Regular speaker at corporate and community events on MongoDB.
• Blogger on MongoDB related tips and tricks, integrations, and tools.

Nürnberg, DE

• Engineering manager for the SUSE Studio, an award-winning web service with over 350,000 users. More than a million custom software appliances have been built since its launch in July 2009.
• Responsible for product planning, software development, system architecture, web operations, capacity planning and quality assurance.
• Manage a team of eight direct reports spread across Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Bulgaria, and Singapore.
• Strongly believes in Agile development, team code reviews, DevOps and continuous deployment. We are using elements of Kanban, Trello, Chef (migrating from Puppet), and Github.
• Quality assurance sub-team focuses on automated and continuous testing with Jenkins.
• Operations sub-team focuses on data-center automation with puppet and Webistrano, as well as system and performance monitoring with NewRelic, Nagios, and Munin.

Nürnberg, DE

• Promoted to Senior Associate after one year.
• Member of a special global team tasked with bringing disruptive, innovative and exciting ideas to market. Team reports directly to the Chief Technology and Strategic Officer.
• Routinely traveled to meet customers, partners, and to speak at conferences (including keynote demos) in more than 10 countries in Europe, South East Asia, Middle East, and USA.
• Worked closely with sales, marketing and public relations. Interviewed numerous times for press conferences, podcasts, online articles and newspapers.
• Core engineer and part-time sysadmin for SUSE Studio.
• Served as release manager and responsible for weekly deployments to production.

Provo, UT, US

• 6 months attachment as part of scholarship program, split between Novell Singapore and SUSE Linux in Germany.
• Traveled to Austria, Italy, Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland for meetings with partners and colleagues.
• Helped field engineers at customer sites and met with prospective customers.
• Routinely presented Open Source Software (OSS) and Linux to schools in Singapore, including Singapore Management University (SMU), Assumption English School, and Hwa Chong Institute. Up to 400 attendees.
• Mentored students in programming and assisted IT trainers from training partner GSA.
• Prototyped Linux Hardware Database website in PHP, later rewrote in Ruby on Rails. Also wrote Python client to extract and upload Linux system configuration.

Singapore, SG

• Worked in the university during the final year.
• Teaching Assistant for the CS2261 Enterprise Systems Development. Taught Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), and best practices.
• Research Assistant in the Software Engineering Lab. Facilitated the management and reporting of other research students.
• Technologies used include J2EE, EJB, Eclipse, Trac, Subversion, and Fedora Linux.

Austin, Texas, US

• Internship at Oracle Singapore and Oracle's R&D center in Beijing.
• Awarded by Minister Mentor of Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew.
• Designed and implemented prototypes like Enterprise Blogs, Oracle Portal and RSS Manager. Coded intensely in J2EE/Java and PL/SQL.
• Responsible for setup, deployment, maintenance and new features of new internal collaboration platform (TWiki). Wrote patches in Perl for TWiki.
• Led a team of four engineers for the internal collaboration project.
• Technologies used include Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle HTMLDB, J2EE, PL/SQL, XML, XSLT, ADF, JSF, RSS, TWiki, Perl, CVS, Subversion, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Hong Kong, HK SAR, HK

B.Comp With Honours, Computer Engineering

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