Wei Yang Tan

Experience

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  TutorChase

  Jan 2018 - Mar 2022

  Private Tutor

  • Taught over 10 students from various countries and diverse ethnic backgrounds including:International students from Australia, Uganda, Malaysia & United Kingdom• Utilised technology and applications such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet for online education.• Guided students through their major exams such as IGCSE, SPM, A-Levels.• Delivered personalised educational, as well as behavioural and emotional support to individual students for a positive and optimised learning outcome• Improved a student's grade from C to A* in A-Levels Further Maths Show less

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  Taylor's Lakeside Model United Nations

  Jan 2019 - Jan 2019

  Delegate

  Participated in various MUN Conference and developed the following skills :• Public Speaking• Global Knowledge• Networking• Writing skills

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  Chan Academy of Music and Arts

  Jan 2019 - Aug 2020

  Administrator

  • By facilitating the communication between stakeholders and the Academy, managed to enhance communication and people management skills • Acquired basic accounting skills and utilised BizSchool to simplify administration tasks• Improved data entry of the Academy using Microsoft and Google Office• Scheduled teacher’s timetable, planned agendas and calendars of the Academy based on annual vision and goals

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  SJK (C) Han Ming

  Aug 2020 - Aug 2020

  Primary School Teacher

  • Maintained a tidy and orderly classroom consisting of 50 students• Implemented and enforced social distancing rules in class with regards of the safety measure set by the government in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic • Promoted physical, mental and social development by implementing classroom games and outdoor recreational activities thus increasing student's interest towards the specific area

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  International Council of Malaysian Scholars and Associates

  Nov 2020 - Mar 2022

  • Managed and led the operations of the UK Chapter that consists of 50 members • Collaborated with Directors & Associates across Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, North America, and Malaysia to develop Malaysian Youths professionally• Engaged with Partners & Sponsors including but not limited to : ICAEW, Maybank, Sunway Group & Axiata for roundtable events to deliver events and upscale the leadership capabilities of Malaysian youths• Spearheaded the production of a series of iGTV videos 'AskJeLAH' to increase Instagram growth by 25%• Emcee for one of ICMS' Flagship event - Malaysian Public Policy Competition (MPPC) 2021 Show less

  • Deputy National Executive Director (UK)

    Feb 2021 - Mar 2022

  • Junior Associate

    Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
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  Imperial College London

  Apr 2021 - Apr 2021

  Work Shadowing

  • Allocated to a host for a career-focused conversation under Imperial's Spring Work Shadowing Scheme• Managed to get insider perception of the tech-industry from a host with 13 years of experience in Bloomberg LP

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  Sunway Property

  Jun 2021 - Sept 2021

  Intern

  • Utilised RegEx and documented methodologies to filter and validate responses for internal survey forms , reduced data processing time by 30 minutes per week on average• Created manpower reports and visualised recruitment analytics using Microsoft Excel• Proposed workforce diversity and streamlined recruitment solutions that is expected to reduce people-cost by 4 hours per candidate• Automated internal mailing process using MailChimp and reduced workload by 2 man hours per week• Researched on competitor’s websites and collaborated with the branding team to propose content revamping to drive an expected minimum 20% increase in applications• Proposed and remodelled the early careers structure and internship programme Show less

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  Bright Network

  Jun 2021 - Jul 2021

  • Bright Network Internship Experience - Business, Operations & Marketing

    Jul 2021 - Jul 2021

  • Bright Network Internship Experience - Engineering & Infrastructure

    Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
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  Proprep UK

  Sept 2021 - Mar 2022

  Student Ambassador

  • Student Ambassador for a EdTech Platform.• Part of a team of dynamic and driven Student Ambassadors studying at top STEM universities in the UK, raising awareness of the benefits the Proprep platform offers to improve student learning outcomes, both on campus and online.

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  SEO London

  Sept 2021 - Feb 2022

  • Attended weekly Lunch & Learn Series to connect and network with industrial experts

  • M&S Diversity Program Masterclass

    Feb 2022 - Feb 2022

  • Candidate

    Jan 2021 - Feb 2022

  • Blackstone Masterclass

    Sept 2021 - Sept 2021
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  Macquarie Group

  Mar 2022 - Apr 2022

  Technology Insight Intern

  2022 Technology Insight Programme (Spring Week)• Explored how the technology team builds and maintains platforms and applications that supports more than one million retail banking customers.• Learnt about agile scrum delivery methodology, design thinking techniques, full-stack software development delivery, and more.• Gained insights about the company culture, team structure and dynamics.

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  Palantir Technologies

  Apr 2022 - Apr 2022

  Technology Insight Intern

  • Learnt about design thinking techniques and full stack development through problem solving workshops• Explored how Palantir products are expanded and customised to maintain various services across the UK NHS

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  Nomura

  May 2022 - May 2022

  Technology Insight Intern

  • Explored various tech stacks used to build and maintains platforms and applications that supports a multinational investment bank operations.• Experienced the company culture, team structure and dynamics

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  GuruLab

  Jul 2022 - Sept 2022

  Software Intern

  Forbes 30 under 30 Asia recognised EdTech startup with 1M USD seed funding.• Built analytics feature that allows tutors to evaluate best and worst performing questions of an assignment, reduced tutor’s weekly class evaluation time by 90 minutes• Designed and built 8 user-facing features and responsive UI for a new application over 600 users, expected to decrease churn rate by 20% and increase user engagement by 35%• Wrote user-facing end-to-end tests and API-level unit tests

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  Macquarie Group

  Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  Technology (Software Developer) Intern

  Technology Intern in the Futures Execution TeamTech Stacks: Pandas, Apache Airflow, Apache Superset, PrestoDB, CI/CD using Atlassian Bamboo & uDeploy.• Built and documented a data reconciliation tool, processing over 30,000 daily entries. Automated the process on Airflow, resulting in 4 hours of daily manual work reduction, significantly enhancing business efficiency.• Contributed to cloud transformation of reporting tasks by migrating 8 legacy stored procedure pipelines to Python scripts.• Implemented unit testings, modularised boilerplate code for enhanced performance and readability. Show less

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  Macquarie Group

  Jul 2024 - now

  Associate Software Engineer

  Tech Stacks: Amazon EC2, EKS, Vim, Shell Scripting, Kafka (MSK)• Managing middleware services on AWS Cloud for the in-house trading platform used across core business units.• Driving cloud transformation initiatives with AWS MSK for scalable event streaming.• Administering and optimising EC2-based virtual machines serving as developer workstations for desk-aligned engineers.