Sean Tan
Software Engineer + Side Quester from Singapore.
I'm a senior software engineer at Constructor, where I help build AI-powered product search and discovery for ecommerce. Outside of work, I'm CTO of The Jobless Club, a Singaporean indie-hacking team behind a few bootstrapped businesses — including the country's #1 knife-sharpening service.
Studied in NUS Computing (Honors), and spent a year on exchange in Silicon Valley. Top 3% freelancer on Upwork with $50k+ earned. Featured on Channel News Asia. Neovim lover.
My edge comes from having a T-shaped skillset of business breadth and technical depth — I'm at my best when dropped into unfamiliar problems and asked to figure them out.
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- Get 2A license and upgrade bikeIn Progress - 2026 Q2
- Learn how to sharpen knivesDone - 2025 Q4
- Set up a smart roomDone - 2025 Q3
- Use Neovim as IDEDone - 2025 Q2
- Get a motorcycle license and buy a bikeDone - 2025 Q1
- Become a good chef and host dinner partiesIn the future
- Become a master sommelierIn the future
- Become a pasta masterIn the future
- Do a V12 Graded Climb Indoors + OutdoorsIn the future
- Get 10k followers on XIn the future
- Launch Dungeon HouseIn the future
- Learn malayIn the future
- Learn thaiIn the future
- Make a killer baguetteIn the future
- Set up a fish tankIn the future
- Start a Dog VillageIn the future
- Start a Resort in Southeast AsiaIn the future
- To have read 80 fiction and 80 non-fiction booksIn the future
- To make it to an MTG World Championship Top 8 by 35In the future
- To make it to Tennis UTR 6In the future
- Win a Golden Demon - Miniature PaintingIn the future