James Tan (JT)

APAC Developer Platform GTM Lead, Cloudflare

Singapore3.2k followers

Cloudflare, Inc.

ex-Confluent

ex-Cloudera

With deep experience in professional services and technology leadership across APAC, I'm currently the APAC Developer Platform GTM Lead at Cloudflare.
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My mission is to empower builders and organizations to harness the power of Cloudflare’s AI-native edge-optimized stack for scalable and secure solutions. Passionate about advancing AI-driven technologies, I collaborate with cross-functional teams to align cutting-edge innovations with customer needs, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.

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CLOUDFLARE,JOB
1. APAC Developer Platform GT…
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COMMVAULTJOB
1. Professional Services & Tr…
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CONFLUENTJOB
1. Area VP, APAC Professional…
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CLOUDERAJOB
1. Sr. Dir, Professional Serv…
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2. Practice Dir (ASEAN, Indon…
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3. Practice Mgr (ASEAN & India)
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4. Solutions Architect (APAC)
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SUSEJOB
1. Software Eng Mgr
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2. Software Eng
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1. Sales and Software Eng
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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPOREJOB
1. Teaching & Research Assist…
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1. Member of Technical Staff
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ZUJIJOB
1. Web Developer
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Job: Confluent — Area Vice President, APAC Professional Services & Education · 2024-01 – 2025-04 · 1y 3mo
Job: Cloudera — Solutions Architect (APAC) · 2015-11 – 2016-10 · 11 mo — • Trusted advisor and solutions architect for Big Data Hadoop use cases, as well as data ingestion, performance optimisation, etc. • Special focus on Kafka, Flume, Spark, and HBase. • Work closely with the top financial institutions and telcos in the region, on clusters with hundreds of nodes and petabytes of data. • Very hands on in all aspects including Linux systems and Hadoop configuration, software development (Java, Scala).
Job: MongoDB — Principal Technical Consultant (EMEA) · 2013-09 – 2015-11 · 2y 2mo — • Continue working closely with EMEA customers, particularly building long term relationships with large Enterprise customers, such as those in manufacturing (IoT), telecommunications, and banking. • Trusted advisor and Technical Account Manager. • Took on additional role of managing and training consulting subcontractors, building up and refining the related processes. Technical expert with onsite engagements to clients across Europe and Israel. • Special focus on schema design, performance tuning, deployment architecture, and operations, including disaster recovery, and automation. • Regular speaker at corporate and community events on MongoDB. • Blogger on MongoDB related tips and trick…
Job: Cloudera — Practice Director (ASEAN, Indonesia, Japan & Korea) · 2019-02 – 2020-05 · 1y 3mo — • Manage a fast growing team of top consultants and architects across the region. • Scope and manage delivery of large Professional Services engagements across the region. • Responsible for P/L, margins, etc.
Job: Novell — Sales and Software Engineer · 2007-07 – 2007-12 · 5 mo — • 6 months attachment as part of scholarship program, split between Novell Singapore and SUSE Linux in Germany. • Traveled to Austria, Italy, Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland for meetings with partners and colleagues. • Helped field engineers at customer sites and met with prospective customers. • Routinely presented Open Source Software (OSS) and Linux to schools in Singapore, including Singapore Management University (SMU), Assumption English School, and Hwa Chong Institute. Up to 400 attendees. • Mentored students in programming and assisted IT trainers from training partner GSA. • Prototyped Linux Hardware Database website in PHP, later rewrote in Ruby on Rails. Also wrote Python cl…
Job: Cloudera — Sr. Director, Professional Services (APAC) at Cloudera · 2020-05 – 2023-12 · 3y 7mo
Job: Oracle — Member of Technical Staff · 2006-01 – 2006-07 · 6 mo — • Internship at Oracle Singapore and Oracle's R&D center in Beijing. • Awarded by Minister Mentor of Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. • Designed and implemented prototypes like Enterprise Blogs, Oracle Portal and RSS Manager. Coded intensely in J2EE/Java and PL/SQL. • Responsible for setup, deployment, maintenance and new features of new internal collaboration platform (TWiki). Wrote patches in Perl for TWiki. • Led a team of four engineers for the internal collaboration project. • Technologies used include Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle HTMLDB, J2EE, PL/SQL, XML, XSLT, ADF, JSF, RSS, TWiki, Perl, CVS, Subversion, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Job: SUSE — Software Engineer · 2008-01 – 2010-11 · 2y 10mo — • Promoted to Senior Associate after one year. • Member of a special global team tasked with bringing disruptive, innovative and exciting ideas to market. Team reports directly to the Chief Technology and Strategic Officer. • Routinely traveled to meet customers, partners, and to speak at conferences (including keynote demos) in more than 10 countries in Europe, South East Asia, Middle East, and USA. • Worked closely with sales, marketing and public relations. Interviewed numerous times for press conferences, podcasts, online articles and newspapers. • Core engineer and part-time sysadmin for SUSE Studio. • Served as release manager and responsible for weekly deployments to production. • M…
Job: SUSE — Software Engineering Manager · 2010-12 – 2013-08 · 2y 8mo — • Engineering manager for the SUSE Studio, an award-winning web service with over 350,000 users. More than a million custom software appliances have been built since its launch in July 2009. • Responsible for product planning, software development, system architecture, web operations, capacity planning and quality assurance. • Manage a team of eight direct reports spread across Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Bulgaria, and Singapore. • Strongly believes in Agile development, team code reviews, DevOps and continuous deployment. We are using elements of Kanban, Trello, Chef (migrating from Puppet), and Github. • Quality assurance sub-team focuses on automated and continuous testing with Jenki…
Job: ZUJI — Web Developer · 2005-05 – 2005-07 · 2 mo
Job: Cloudera — Practice Manager (ASEAN & India) · 2016-10 – 2019-02 · 2y 4mo — • Manage a fast growing team of top consultants and architects across the region. • Scope and manage delivery of large Professional Services engagements across the region. • Still enjoy being hands-on and technical. • Key focus on ASEAN and India markets.
Job: National University of Singapore — Teaching & Research Assistant · 2007-01 – 2007-05 · 4 mo — • Worked in the university during the final year. • Teaching Assistant for the CS2261 Enterprise Systems Development. Taught Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), and best practices. • Research Assistant in the Software Engineering Lab. Facilitated the management and reporting of other research students. • Technologies used include J2EE, EJB, Eclipse, Trac, Subversion, and Fedora Linux.
Job: Commvault — Professional Services & Training Lead · 2025-04 – 2026-04 · 1y
Job: Cloudflare, Inc. — APAC Developer Platform GTM Lead · 2026-04 – present · 4 mo — Scaling Cloudflare's AI-native edge-optimised stack for builders across APAC. In particular (among many others): 🚀 Workers AI (https://workers.cloudflare.com/product/workers-ai): Leveraging the world's most distributed inference network to run 50,000+ models with zero infrastructure overhead. 🛡️ AI Gateway (https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/ai-gateway/): Provides the essential observability, caching, and guardrails that turn AI experiments into production-grade enterprise solutions. 🤖 Agents Week (https://www.cloudflare.com/agents-week/): Powering the next generation of autonomous AI agents at scale with our latest specialised releases. 🧡 Cloudflare Workers: The wor…
School: National University of Singapore — B.Comp with Honours, Computer Engineering
School: National Junior College

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