LEONG XIN-NAN / BACKEND LAB

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Leong Xin-Nan

Backend engineer building reliable, high-impact systems.

policies in month one
50K+
alert-handling efficiency
50%
GXBank hackathon
#1

Education

Multimedia University, B.Sc. Computer Science (Software Engineering), First Class Honours, CGPA 3.71.

  • Golang
  • Java
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • PostgreSQL

Case File / Financial Systems

Reliable systems under real financial constraints.

Fund compliance rules, high-frequency operations, insurance launch, and reconciliation demand dependable backend systems.

policies purchased in month one
50K+
improvement in alert-handling efficiency
50%

Contribution

Fund-check rules, millisecond-level tools, insurance groundwork, and enhanced reconciliation.

  1. Rule input
  2. High-frequency validation
  3. Decision and reconciliation
  • Java
  • financial systems
  • compliance
  • reconciliation

Case File / Independent Project

PaperPilot

Upload PDFs, ask questions, and receive streamed answers grounded in the documents.

Identity

GitHub OAuth through Supabase.

Ownership

End-to-end backend ownership from document ingestion and retrieval through streamed responses.

  1. PDF upload
  2. Chunk and embed
  3. Vector + BM25 retrieval
  4. Stream grounded answer
  • FastAPI
  • React
  • Supabase
  • pgvector
  • Voyage AI
  • DeepSeek
  • SSE

Case File / Internal Tooling

Overseer

A centralized portal for on-call engineers and QA testers.

GXBank internal hackathon
#1
  1. Incident context
  2. Datadog logs + database queries + Jira tickets
  3. Unified investigation view
  • Datadog
  • databases
  • Jira
  • internal tooling

Case File / Research

Assistive object detection

Assistive object detection and distance estimation on Raspberry Pi 4B+ using Pi Camera and HC-SR04P.

danger zone
90cm
IEEE publication
First author
  1. Camera + distance sensor
  2. TensorFlow Lite inference
  3. Audio + vibration warning
  • Python
  • TensorFlow Lite
  • Raspberry Pi

Career / Trace

Career trace

Roles in reverse chronological order.

  1. Aug 2025 — Present

    Fund Risk Java Developer

    Ant International · Kuala Lumpur

    Design and implement fund check rules for compliance. Build millisecond-level performance tools for high-frequency financial operations. Improved team alert-handling efficiency by 50% through an enhanced reconciliation system.

  2. May 2024 — Aug 2025

    Backend Engineer

    GXBank Berhad · Petaling Jaya

    Laid groundwork and launched an insurance product achieving 50k+ policy purchases in its first month. Won first prize in the internal hackathon with 'Overseer', a centralised troubleshooting portal.

  3. Dec 2023 — Apr 2024

    Software Engineer

    Silverlake Symmetry and Technology Research · Petaling Jaya

    Built a sophisticated chatbot for financial applications using open-source platforms. Collaborated with the team to deliver a cutting-edge product for a financial institution.

  4. May 2022 — Aug 2022

    Software Engineering Intern

    Infront Consulting · Petaling Jaya

    Contributed to software development with Django, Python, JavaScript, and Vue.js. Worked within Agile teams, supporting code quality through testing and best practices.

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