Ming Soon Kor

Engineer @ Squarepoint

Singapore, Singapore

About

Strong interest in Entrepreneurship, Computing and Business. Looking to embark on exciting projects and always willing to learn more. Experienced in Cloud Computing and Data Analytics in Python.

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSIT)
    Aug 2023 - Jun 2026 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    • Ensured high availability and reliability of mission-critical platforms supporting multi-environment, air-gapped, and multi-network deployments, aligning with global service stability requirements. • Designed and operated API Gateway and access platforms using Kong Enterprise, Envoy, Nginx, and Open Policy Agent, enabling secure and resilient request routing at scale. • Built and evolved backend infrastructure components and APIs supporting authentication, authorization, and service-to-service communication using Keycloak (OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, Kerberos) and OpenFGA. • Owned Kubernetes-based production environments, managing containerized micro-services with Helm and Operators to improve resilience, rollout safety, and deployment velocity. • Led infrastructure provisioning and configuration automation using Terraform, Helm, and GitOps workflows, minimising manual intervention and configuration drift across environments. • Established end-to-end observability and reliability practices using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and ELK; defined SLIs/SLOs and leveraged metrics to identify reliability risks and bottlenecks. • Performed root cause analysis (RCA) for production issues and drove systemic improvements to reduce repeat incidents. • Hardened and operated Linux systems in high-security environments, applying OS-level tuning and security best practices to improve system stability. • Developed automation and operational tooling (Shell / Python) to reduce repetitive tasks and improve operational efficiency. • Handled production incident response and service recovery for critical systems. • Analysed reliability risks and capacity bottlenecks using metrics and operational data.

  • DevOps Engineer at ByteDance
    Aug 2022 - Jan 2023 · 6 mos

    - Maintained and enhanced a proprietary fork of Apache Flink codebase - Extended Flink’s Kubernetes integration by contributing patches, such as adding customized init containers and extra volumes for upstream use cases. - Developed and optimized containerized deployment scripts and Helm charts to streamline Flink cluster provisioning on Kubernetes - Collaborated closely with data engineering teams to translate job requirements into Flink-aware Kubernetes configurations and utility scripts

  • Cyber Threat Hunter at Morgan Stanley
    May 2022 - Aug 2022 · 4 mos

  • National University of Singapore (2 yrs 6 mos)
    • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
      Jan 2020 - May 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    • DevOps Developer Intern
      May 2020 - Aug 2020 · 4 mos

      - Using of Elasticsearch to build Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools for applications hosted on Student Development Platform running on Amazon Web Services. (http://icode4nus.sg/) - Building of metrics to measure performance for hosted applications (web, mobile and customized applications such as Telegram Bots)

    • Cloud Developer Intern
      Dec 2019 - Jan 2020 · 2 mos

      - Created automation code (Terraform and Ansible) for deployment of website on Amazon Web Services (AWS): https://icode4nus.sg/ - Creation of Key Performance Indicator for platform performance and outreaching to student developers to onboard platform - Exposed to agile methodology for development - Exposure to Operating Systems (Ubuntu and CentOS)

  • Cyber Security Engineer at Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSIT)
    May 2021 - Aug 2021 · 4 mos