Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Strategic Engineering Director with over 20 years of experience building high-performance teams and scaling digital ecosystems. Proven track record at Moca Network, Microsoft, and Rapyd in scaling engineering organizations, accelerating delivery through AI-assisted development, and managing complex cross-border payments and global fintech compliance.
Animoca Brands is a leader in AI and blockchain technologies. The Moca Network project unifies Animoca’s ecosystem of over 540 projects and its partners through one common platform that empowers users to create digital identities, accumulate reputation, earn and spend loyalty points. # B2B2C Ecosystem: Collaborated with stakeholders to architect scalable B2C web applications and B2B2C partner SDKs, ensuring high security and modularity for external integrations. # Rapid Scaling: Built and led a distributed engineering team of 15+ developers, delivering the Mocaverse platform within 3 months and onboarding 1.7M+ users within 6 months. # Agentic Innovation: Architected and deployed Agentic Identity and Agent-friendly Wallets, enabling users to execute financial transactions and send money with reusable KYC. # AI-Assisted Development: Championed the integration of AI-assisted development and Cloud agents across the engineering lifecycle, resulting in a 60% increase in team delivery speed. # Technical Strategy: Orchestrated the use of Account Abstraction and ZKP to enable credential Issuing & verification to unify 600+ projects into a single digital reputation platform. Tech Stack: Node.js, Typescript, AWS, Account Abstraction (ERC-4337), MPC, React.
Rapyd is a global financial technology company that provides a wide range of payment solutions and financial products for businesses. Its platform enables businesses to accept and send payments globally, manage multiple payment methods, and access a suite of financial services that includes foreign exchange, card issuing, and digital wallets. # Fintech Leadership: Oversaw the Disburse business unit, managing global payouts, virtual accounts, and FX services for a company valued at $8.75B. # Strategic Delivery: Improved team performance by setting clear KPIs and coaching leads within a 25-person engineering organization. Tech Stack: Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, Microservices.
Neat is a fintech startup that provides multi-currency accounts to SMEs through a fully digital web & mobile experience, with capabilities to send and receive payments through bank transfers and cards securely by employing automated screening, fraud detection, and transaction monitoring. # Financial Infrastructure: Spearheaded API integrations with DBS, Railsbank, Nium for Global Payments, and Visa for direct card issuance; ensured full PCI-DSS compliance. # Global Team Oversight: Directed the entire engineering department across HK, Philippines, Indonesia, London, and Dubai. # M&A Leadership: Facilitated the successful acquisition of Neat by Rapyd; led technical due diligence and drove the Post-Merger Integration (PMI) of systems. Tech Stack: Node.js, Ruby, Cypress, Mocha, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloudflare, Datadog.
Grana is a fashion ecommerce startup backed by Alibaba to provide high-quality clothing at affordable prices. # Engineering Growth: Mentored and trained engineers in development, testing, and strategic planning; developed custom Magento 2 features to drive global sales. # Infrastructure Transformation: Improved cloud availability using load balancing, redundancy, and auto-scaling. # Performance Engineering: Dramatically increased web performance via ElasticSearch, caching, and CDNs, using New Relic to identify bottlenecks. # Data Strategy: Designed internal data pipelines (Redshift/Tableau) for automated business reporting. Tech Stack: Magento 2, PHP, JavaScript, Python, Selenium, AWS, New Relic, Redshift, Tableau.
WWE is a joint venture by Wharf Holdings and Lane Crawford Joyce Group that founded MyMM: a social e-commerce mobile application for luxury brands in China with features such as product search, checkout, chat, friends, social sharing, and newsfeed. # Founding Lead: Joined as a founding member of MyMM (social e-commerce); built a team of 12 internal/offshore engineers to launch versions 1.0 through 2.0. # Strategy: Designed test automation for iOS, Android, and Web covering functional and security aspects. Tech Stack: Node.js, Swift, Java, MariaDB, ElasticSearch, WebSockets, Protractor, jMeter, Jenkins.