Singapore
Seasoned tech leader with 15+ years’ experience building, scaling, and leading engineering and product teams across fintech, web3, gaming, and digital platforms. Proven track record in launching high-impact products, driving AI/ML adoption, and managing cross-functional teams in startup and enterprise environments. Adept at translating business goals into engineering realities, fostering innovation, and delivering results at scale.
Developed Stiqy.io with a great team, a marketing platform for Web3 companies to provide engagement with their communities with the ability to create tasks/quests for their users to participate in with NextJS, Supabase Postgres and NodeJS backends. Implementation of several AI technologies such as a working chatbot on Avocadodao.io website, which links up with data in our database. An analytics AI layer was added to our client admin dashboards to allow them to chat with data that they've gathered over their compaigns in Stiqy.io Created multiple AI/LLM projects: ▫ Automated Telegram bot for chat, notes, image uploads, and daily alerts (Google Gemini). ▫ Agentic bots for X/Twitter, leveraging Supabase Edge Functions and Gemini. ▫ Slack bot integrating JIRA/Confluence/database contexts for company-wide knowledge access. Exploring the potential blockchain technological capabilities via GameFi, NFTs, yield platforms and other blockchain-related fields through popular chains such as BASE, BNB, Ethereum, amongst others. Develop and maintain optimized, high-level infrastructure for Web2 and Web3 platforms on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform hostings providers via the use of main services such as EC2, ECS, RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB. Work with management and operations teams to create internal tools to facilitate high-efficiency in developing and maintaining current and new Web3 projects. This involved created and working with new tools such as Appsmith for internal tools to be used by non-technical teams, and Posthog integration to ensure that all products are tracked correctly. Collaborating with engineering talent on development of Web Portal for existing and new scholars being recruited into AvocadoDAO (https://www.avocadodao.io in VueJS and NodeJS Planning and collaborating with world-class engineers across different timezones and countries to accomplish the organization's visions and objectives.
Managing the streaming operations behind podcasts with Facebook Live, Youtube Live, OBS with fancy special effects.
Leading the DevOps team to help architect infrastructure solutions on AWS to support the engineering teams, and ensure engineers are achieving their targets unobstructed. Planned, built and delivered Mamaschoice, a popular e-commerce platform for parent and baby care products, spanning across Southeast-Asia. Together with a great team of developers, it was created with Wordpress as the primary CMS, along with a diverse range of payment solutions to work seamlessly with different countries. Helped with the planning, design and development of theAsianparent Community (https://community.theasianparent.com) social network site for parents and parents-to-be on web, Android, iOS and Huawei platforms. Developed with the teams for theAsianparent (http://theasianparent.com) to cater to 30 milion monthly users with Wordpress and ReactJS as a frontend. Ensures the development team runs at its best, ensuring all members' welfare is handled with care, and essential training is taken care of. Work hand-in-hand with the engineering leads on the full-stack development for Tickled Media's products based on Amazon Web Services.
Technical Lead for a variety of games published in Gumi Asia. Led and involved in both client and server engineering of key mobile titles such as Knight Legends, Genjyu Hime and Brave Frontier for global markets. All titles are using Amazon Web Services as a backend, with server languages spread across Python and PHP, with extensive use of RDS MySQL and DynamoDB data stores, along with Redis and Memcache support. Developed scalable and highly-available architecture to support more than half a million players a day and few 100k of daily revenue. Game titles were developed in Cocos2D-X for Android and iOS devices. Brave Frontier (2013-2014) became a Top 10 Grossing game in all App Store platforms in countries such as South-East Asia, United States and Australia. Won the Global MVP 2014 award amongst all the global Gumi branch offices including Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, France, China and Philippines.