A Software Engineering Manager with 8+ years of experience in various areas of Software Engineering including native Android (Java, Kotlin), Hybrid Mobile framework (Reactive Native, Flutter), Rest APIs, backend services, distributed systems, web frontend development (Angular, React), etc. Managed engineering teams of 8+ engineers including NCG, interns, and senior & staff engineers. Had extensive experience working with different cross-functional teams including design, product, business, sales, etc. Had client-facing pre-sale & solution design experience. List of skills: • Android, Java, Kotlin, Flutter, Dart, Javascript, Node.js, React, Angular, Mongo DB, MySQL, SQLite & Room • Solution Architecture, System Design, Security Enhancement & Optimization, Algorithm & Data Structure • Digital card issuance & Card Control, Tokenization, Loyalty & offers solution, Blockchain, Crypto, Payment VAS
• Managed an engineering team of 5+ engineers for Isomer product, the secure, reliable, and rapid website builder for Singapore government agencies. Isomer is hosting 530+ government websites from 70+ government agencies, accounting for about 50% of all Singapore government websites.
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• Managed an engineering team of 8+ engineers from junior to staff level. Defined the strategic direction & targets for the team. Established the right engineering practices within the team. Consistently improved code quality, stability, scalability, and security for the platform, services, and features. • Partnered and aligned with cross-functional leaders across product, design, data, and business to build the product & technology roadmap for tours, experiences, demos, and pilots in SG & Global Innovation Centers. • Participated in client engagements and sales enablement activities as the tech partner & solution architect across the AP region. • Attracted and retained engineering talent, actively mentored and helped team members to grow their individual careers. Transformed the team to be more agile, organized, self-motivated, and autonomous.
Visa New: • Pilot initiative to build Visa’s first bank account to bank account payment scheme using VisaNet rails. • Acted as the tech lead and solution architect, built the end-to-end solution architecture. • Led a team of 4 developers and drove the project into pilot with backend API services and 2 OBO mobile apps Digital Engagement Engine (DEE): • Visa’s first customer engagement and transaction gamification platform built internally to test fresh engagement strategies and expand Visa’s capabilities. Led a team of 4 developers with additional dev resources from the vendor. • Led the architecture, design, and development of the platform services and successfully completed the PoC stage. Led Technical Solution Architecture in a few Co-creations with global clients from APAC, including Coins.ph, T2P, Agoda, ICICI India, etc. Acted as the hiring manager for 2 summer interns, and the mentor & on-site manager for 2 senior developers.
• Playdee: Worked as dev lead with a team of 4 developers on the Playdee Android App which was Visa’s first gamification-based mobile app for the end-customer engagement. The app was live with 400+ internal Pilot users. • Digital Receipt: Led the solution architecture of a patented idea to convert paper receipts to enriched digital ones. • Global Innovation Experience Station: Worked closely with regional stakeholders and led the effort of developing, promoting, expanding, and deploying the Innovation Experience to 9+ global markets including New York, Sydney, Beijing, Vietnam, London, etc.
• Developed Android Visa Now App for Rio Olympics event (Published to Google Play Store). Led the team of 4 (managed 3 offshore devs from india), architected and developed the core pieces of the app to showcase Visa’s capability in mobile technology, wearable payments, and eye & facial recognition during a month long Olympics event to more than 1000 high dignitary clients and consumers. The app showed individually customized itinerary, balance and payments history through NFC ring/wristband, live Olympics news, local/push notifications, program & contact information. Integrated with EyeVerify SDK and Here Map SDK, the app allowed users to log in using their eye print and provide offline map support, walking/driving/public transport directions, turn by turn instructions. • Developed Android Visa Now App for Super Bowl 50 event (Published to Google Play Store). Architected and developed the core pieces of the app to showcase Visa’s capability in showcase various new technology experiences during the 3-day Super Bowl 50 event in San Francisco by showing event agenda, wristband wearable check-ins, balance and payment history, live feed notifications, facial recognition photos, and trending. Integrated with Google Maps API to provide provide event locations and polyline driving directions from users’ current location. • Developed Android Been There app during Visa Hackathon 2015. Build a prototype showing the potential to provide users customized Visa merchant offers when they are travelling aboard. Completed the whole development work of the prototype in 12 hours. Filed a patent based on the idea of this prototype for Visa • Developed Android Token Control App for connecting users’ payment cards to various merchants • Improved and upgraded Android Everywhere Shop App for new in-store shopping experience • Upgraded and maintained Android P2P app for peer to peer payments transfer