Gavin Fong
Summary
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SeniorGavin Fong is a senior software engineer based in London with 10 years of backend and systems experience building resilient, cloud-native microservices for high-traffic financial and payments platforms. He specializes in Java Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS and NoSQL stores like DynamoDB and Cassandra, and has delivered production systems supporting 500K+ customers and 500K+ daily transactions. Gavin blends a strong product mindset with hands-on architecture and performance tuning—designing real-time data pipelines, stream processing, and observability for mission-critical services. He mentors engineers, drives DevOps practices and has led platform initiatives at major banks and fintechs, including implementing container platforms and API-driven architectures. An active technical writer with 3K+ Medium followers and maintained open-source projects, he’s recently been exploring Go to bring simpler, high-performance tooling into his backend toolkit.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (4)
java-stream-api10
spring-boot8
spring8
nodejs1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gavinklfong/reactive-spring-forex-trade
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
Reactive Spring Boot - Forex Trade
Contributions:1 release, 111 commits, 8 PRs in 7 months
springspring-boot
gavinklfong/stream-api-exercises
Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
Java Stream API Exercises
Contributions:2 reviews, 18 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 1 month
java-stream-api
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