Ye Lwin Soe

Ye Lwin Soe

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

11+ years shipping production platforms across investment, recruitment, media, and e-commerce, most recently at GIC, one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds.

Auckland, New Zealand

About

Senior engineering, end to end

I am a senior full-stack engineer with 11+ years shipping production platforms across investment, recruitment, media, and e-commerce, most recently at GIC, one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds.

I work deep in React and TypeScript, Python, and AWS, from frontend architecture and API design through CI/CD and Kubernetes infrastructure, with a record of measurable gains in performance, reliability, and release speed. As a former engineering lead and startup CTO, I am used to owning architecture, delivery, and stakeholder relationships end to end.

Now based in Auckland, my Master of Applied Finance at AUT adds financial-domain depth to my engineering background, and I am interested in senior software engineer and hands-on technical lead roles.

Experience

Recent roles and impact

The problems I owned in my last three roles, and what changed as a result.

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Commercial details kept confidential

Full-Stack Developer

GIC · Singapore

Oct 2023 — Mar 2026

Unifying investment applications

Investment and analytics teams at one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds relied on separate tools that needed a consistent experience without losing independent deployment ownership.

applications unified
10+
faster API responses
30%
consistent user experience
1 platform
  • Led development of a React micro-frontend framework connecting 10+ investment and analytics applications, so product teams could build and release independently without coordinated deployments.
  • Built Python services with Redis caching and role-based access control, cutting API response times by 30% on data-heavy financial dashboards while enforcing fine-grained access to sensitive investment data.
  • Partnered with investment analysts, designers, and project managers to turn complex requirements into intuitive internal tools, owning features from requirements through production.

React · TypeScript · Python · Redis · Micro-frontends · RBAC

Lead Software Developer

Findjobs · Singapore

Jul 2020 — Sep 2023

Modernising delivery and organic growth

A growing recruitment platform needed faster releases, better search visibility, and infrastructure that could support dependable product delivery.

build time, down from 2+ hours
<20 min
organic search growth
500%
release capability
On demand
  • Led the engineering team while staying hands-on across architecture, sprint delivery, code review, and production operations.
  • Rebuilt CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Docker, cutting build time from 2+ hours to under 20 minutes and enabling on-demand releases.
  • Re-architected the job portal with Next.js server-side rendering; organic search traffic grew 500% over the following year.
  • Designed Kubernetes-based AWS infrastructure that removed recurring sources of deployment outages.

Next.js · TypeScript · Node.js · AWS · Docker · Kubernetes

Senior Software Engineer

GrabJobs · Singapore

Mar 2019 — Jul 2020

Scaling traffic, revenue, and reliability

A fast-growing recruitment platform needed to scale web traffic, introduce employer subscriptions, and improve production visibility.

traffic growth supported
300%
revenue increase contributed to
50%
less unplanned downtime
20%
  • Supported 300% web traffic growth by redesigning the Next.js rendering architecture and splitting services out of the monolith.
  • Built Stripe employer subscriptions, including failed-payment and billing edge cases, contributing to a 50% revenue increase.
  • Overhauled logging and monitoring with ELK and Prometheus, reducing unplanned downtime by 20%.

Next.js · React · Node.js · Stripe · ELK · Prometheus

Earlier roles

Co-Founder / CTO (concurrent, part-time) · BitsGreat

Jun 2018 — Sep 2019 · Singapore

Software Engineer · Nanyang Technological University

May 2018 — Mar 2019 · Singapore

Senior Web Developer · EVVO Media

Mar 2016 — May 2018 · Singapore

Web Developer, promoted to Senior Web Developer · Novitee

Dec 2014 — Jan 2016 · Yangon, Myanmar

Writing

Engineering notes

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Education

Academic Background

Master of Applied Finance

Auckland University of Technology (AUT)

Mar 2026 — Jan 2027

MSc Computer Science

University of East London

Sep 2024 — Sep 2025

Bachelor of Computer Science

University of Computer Studies, Mandalay

2009 — 2012

Need a senior engineer who can own delivery end to end?

I am based in Auckland and open to conversations about senior engineering and hands-on technical lead roles.

[email protected]