Gerry Tan
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolGerry Tan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of experience building backend systems and integrations across finance and enterprise tooling. He cut his teeth on Java and Kotlin microservices, spent time on JavaScript/React, and now focuses on Go while developing Azure Terraform provider tooling at Microsoft. At Atlassian he worked on Jira Service Desk ecosystem APIs, shaping third-party integrations and platform interoperability. Comfortable across cloud, infrastructure-as-code, and API design, he blends pragmatic engineering with product-minded attention to observability and reliability. Outside work he’s a keen table tennis and court tennis player who also plays chess and a little piano and guitar—an indicator of steady focus and dexterous problem-solving off the keyboard.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
SMU St. Aloysius BandungUNSW Sydney
English, Indonesian
Stackoverflow
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tomcat
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maven
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spring
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Github Skills (128)
api-client10
command-line-interface10
swagger10
websocket10
microsoft-azure10
terraform10
http-client10
rest-api10
openapi10
azure-sdk10
dotnet10
spring-mvc10
doc10
api10
rest10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
gerrytan/azure-rest-api-specs
Sep 2024 - Aug 2025
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:2 PRs, 39 pushes, 11 branches in 11 months
gerrytan/git-branch-namer
Jul 2020 - Aug 2025
Chrome extension to generate a git branch command from the page you're viewing
Contributions:5 reviews, 6 PRs, 25 pushes in 5 years 2 months
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