Ventus smiling in a camo jacket

Hello, I'm

Ventus Tan Wei Yang

Just another guy using tech to automate my day-to-day, so I can spend more time on what matters: good work, good food and good people.

A good day looks like

What I've been up to

  1. 2024 – 2026

    Software Engineer · Macquarie Group

    Cloud & Platform Engineering in London. Built a developer experience platform used by 2,000+ engineers, migrated message relays to Kafka across three regions, and looked after the cloud infrastructure for an internal trading platform.

  2. 2020 – 2024

    MEng Aeronautical Engineering · Imperial College London

    First Class Honours. Teaching assistant for Computing & Numerical Methods, and double bass in the IC Symphony Orchestra and IC Sinfonietta.

    Graduation selfie at the Royal Albert Hall
  3. 2020 – 2024

    Private Tutor · IGCSE to A-Levels

    Taught 20+ students throughout uni, from IGCSE up to A-Levels, helping students lift their grades from a C to an A*.

  4. 2022 – 2023

    Internships · Macquarie & GuruLab

    Data pipelines on Airflow in London; full-stack features for an AI tutoring platform in Malaysia.

  5. 2021 – 2022

    Treasurer · Imperial Malaysian Society

    Kept the society's books in order and had a blast at Malaysian Night (MNight), performing in both the Lion Dance and the Dikir Barat on the same MNight stage, in front of 700 people.

    Lion dance crew at Malaysian Night
  6. 2021 – 2022

    Deputy National Executive Director · International Council of Malaysian Scholars

    Held leadership roles and ran events to raise the professionalism of Malaysian students, working closely with external corporate stakeholders.

  7. 2021 – 2022

    Rakan Tutor

    Founding team member of a pro-bono initiative that gave free tutoring to underserved students in Malaysia during the pandemic.

  8. 2016 – now

    Double bassist · Orchestras, gigs & weddings

    Been playing the double bass since 2016: orchestras and ensembles through school, the IC Symphony Orchestra and IC Sinfonietta at Imperial, and gigs and weddings on the side.

    Ventus on stage with his double bass, glancing back at the camera

Snapshots from the journey

A few chapters of my life so far, in photos. Tap one to open it.

2016 →

🎻 Double bass, since 2016

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Picked up the double bass in 2016 and never put it down. Orchestras and ensembles through my pre-uni years, then the IC Symphony Orchestra and IC Sinfonietta at Imperial, plus gigs and weddings along the way. The bass section has always been my favourite corner of the stage.

Ventus on stage with his double bass, glancing back at the camera
Caught mid-show 😁
Ensemble of cellists and double bassists posing on stage
Pre-uni: low strings gang 🫶
Orchestra mid-performance, with Ventus on double bass at the back right
Pre-uni: mid-concert, back right with the bass
Ventus playing double bass on stage under purple lights
Pre-uni: in the zone 🎶
Selfie with the Imperial College Symphony Orchestra double bass section before a concert
IC Symphony Orchestra: bass section selfie
2021 – 2022

🦁 MNight: Lion Dance and Dikir Barat

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The year I kept the Imperial Malaysian Society's books and somehow also ended up on the Malaysian Night stage for both the Lion Dance and the Dikir Barat, in front of 700 people.

Lion dance troupe in costume posing after the Malaysian Night performance
🦁 The Lion Dance crew
Four performers playing the drum and cymbals on stage under red lights
🥁 On the drums and cymbals
Dikir Barat group in colourful hats and traditional outfits
🎶 Dikir Barat, same stage, same night
2021 – 2022

Suits on: ICMS

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Deputy National Executive Director at the International Council of Malaysian Scholars. Lots of event planning, lots of sponsor calls, and a lot of fellow Malaysian scholars levelling up together.

Large group of Malaysian scholars in business attire
The ICMS family 🇲🇾
2024

🎓 Graduated from Imperial

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Four years of Aeronautical Engineering wrapped up with a First and a selfie under the Royal Albert Hall organ.

Ventus in graduation gown taking a selfie inside the Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall, gown on ✨

Projects

Coming soon. Past projects and academic work are on their way: HPC simulation databases, a Feynman-method AI tutor, a 30× faster shallow-water solver, and more.

How I build these days

Programming languages matter less than ever. AI writes most of the boilerplate now, so I spend my time on the parts that still need a human: picking the right problem, designing the system, and wiring up agents to do the heavy lifting.

If you really want to know the stacks I've worked with…

Python · Go · C++ · Java · Scala · TypeScript · Kubernetes · Kafka · Docker · AWS · Terraform · Grafana · React

The languages I still care about: English, Mandarin & Malay, plus enough Cantonese to get by. Currently trying to learn Japanese 🇯🇵