Singapore · Protocol engineering

Kenrick Tan

Protocol Engineer at Galaxy Digital

Experience

Sep 2025 — Present · Singapore

Platform and infrastructure engineering for digital assets.
Working across protocol engineering, release delivery, and operational reliability.
AI Champion, exploring practical applications of AI in engineering workflows.

May 2024 — Sep 2025 · Singapore

Led the migration from Bitbucket to GitHub Enterprise and standardized CI/CD across business lines.
Designed an MVP internal AI tooling suite with a custom MCP server integrating LLM automation into Jira and Confluence.
Co-led release management automation with ticket validation, dependency checks, and Jira-linked release gating.
Architected reusable GitHub Actions workflows with Docker, Helm, and GitOps-driven multi-environment releases.
Introduced secrets rotation, image scanning, Renovate automation, and static analysis tools (Checkmarx, Snyk, Codacy).
Mentored SRE/DevSecOps teams across SG/CN/IN/VN while aligning stakeholders in regulated environments.

Mar 2023 — May 2024 · Singapore

Containerized GoQuorum and 8 DApps, packaging hardened images for production.
Built Helm charts for GoQuorum and DApps, managing 7 Kubernetes environments with 40+ clusters.
Integrated HashiCorp Vault via External Secrets Operator and enforced mTLS/TLS across networks and apps.
Delivered end-to-end integration testing across seven release cycles.

Feb 2022 — Feb 2023 · Singapore

Built DevOps automation for environment creation and management, reducing onboarding friction.
Co-developed a Go CLI to simplify client onboarding and improve self-service workflows.
Authored the Certification Practice Statement and streamlined Scope of Work, saving $125k.
Earned performance ratings: Overachieved (Jun 2022) and Significantly Overachieved (Dec 2022).

May 2021 — Feb 2022 · Singapore

Migrated CI/CD from Bamboo to Jenkins for 250 projects and delivered training enablement.
Led technical debt analysis and remediation across 38 issues.
Troubleshot Azure DevOps pipelines and delivered a Prometheus/Grafana/Thanos + ArgoCD POC.

Coding Bootcamp (Frontend, Backend, DSA)

Sep 2020 — Apr 2021

Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology & Communications), High Merit

Aug 2015 — Jan 2020