Benny Chan

Data-driven professional with 3 years of experience translating complex technical operations into measurable business outcomes.

At United Overseas

Bank, led a cross-functional RFP evaluation that identified a vendor solution projecting 30% TCO savings, and directed a risk-assessment initiative across 50 mission-critical databases to safeguard operational stability. Skilled in structured problem-solving, stakeholder alignment, and building evaluation frameworks under ambiguity. Bringing a builder's rigor to strategic planning, performance tracking, and cross-functional decision-making.

Platform Architect - United Overseas Bank

(2023-07)

Participated in Talent Development Program with 3 months of structured training, followed by 9 months of on-the-job training in current role.

• Co-authored and published comprehensive bank-wide platform documentation according to ITIL framework for 7 core platforms such as Oracle, MSSQL, Cloudera & Confluent Kafka, establishing a unified operational standard for all technology units
• Co-led cross-functional RFP evaluation for a database cost-optimization initiative, shortlisting 4 of 8 vendors and identifying a solution projected to reduce total cost of ownership by 30%, by designing a structured evaluation matrix and aligning stakeholders across technology, procurement, and operations teams
• Directed a proactive risk-assessment initiative across 50 mission-critical Oracle databases to safeguard operational stability, identifying and resolving performance risks by defining assessment criteria and refining the vendor's reporting methodology
• Led development of an open-source event-driven platform stack (MongoDB, Kafka, Flink, Nifi) to modernize core banking infrastructure
• Managed vendor to develop and validate chef cookbooks for hardening of Oracle databases
• Led Communications Sub-Committee of the Alumni, helping organise events for the program by coordinating with COO Office team and allocating adequate resources for each event

Financial Services (FSO) Intern - Ernst & Young

(2022-05 - 2022-11)

• Worked in a team of over 15 developers to build and implement a Data Lake for end-to-end use for a leading insurer in Singapore for IFRS17 accounting standards
• Led the team for data ingestion phase from raw layer in AWS S3 to staging layer in PostgreSQL using AWS Glue and RDS
• Developed SQL queries for harmonized and curated layers involving multiple complex transformation logics
• Engaged client to gain clarity on business functions and intent of certain transformation logics and helped correct and simplify certain logics

BSc - Data Science & Analytics, Minor in Economics - National University of Singapore (2019-08 - 2023-05)