Lionel Tay
Staff Engineer at PERSUIT®
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolLionel Tay is a Staff Software Engineer in Melbourne with nine years of experience building full-stack web platforms and developer tooling. At PERSUIT he co-founded and now leads the Ignite Squad, turning a side project into the company’s central AI initiative and delivering PERSI, a production-grade AI agent. He specialises in architecting reusable AI frameworks, developer infrastructure, and patterns that standardise LLM integration and accelerate cross-team delivery. Previously he drove major DX improvements—code generation, mocking, codemods, monorepo tooling and accessibility refactors—that removed systemic debt and boosted engineering velocity. Lionel blends hands-on implementation (React, GraphQL, Cloud) with squad-level planning to sustain 100% on-time delivery while creating space for strategic innovation. His background in statistics and early work on blockchain-fronted UIs and automation hint at a strong foundation in probabilistic thinking and pragmatic system design.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
East Doncaster Secondary CollegeThe University of Melbourne
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (74)
code-generation10
copilot10
schema10
code-generator10
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js10
resolvers10
csharp10
graphql-schema10
ai-agent9
ai9
angular9
nextjs9
react9
graphql9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lioneltay/modern-react-boilerplate
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
inficen/eslint-plugin-prefer-types
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
ESLint plugin for Typescript to prefer using type over interface
Contributions:64 commits, 4 PRs, 22 pushes in 18 days
eslint-plugintypescript
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