Richard Pung

Software Engineer

Singapore

About

Specialised in distributed systems, backend engineering and system design. Hope to play my part in making tech for the good of society. Feel free to reach out and AMA :) Would be more than happy to connect and chat.

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Apple
    Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

  • Senior Software Engineer at Temus
    Sep 2023 - Aug 2025 · 2 yrs

    • Built AI avatars with real-time voice capability for financial institutions • Lead the development of an internal financial and human resource tracking platform used to drive leadership decision making • Worked on data loading and transformation of production database for a government agency

  • Software Engineer at Grab
    Aug 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    • Maintained Grab’s in-house A/B Experimentation platform with 40,000 QPS as part of Product Insights and Experimentation Platform Team • Improved feature rollout performance time by 70 percent through cpu profiling (flame graph) and using Golang goroutines to parallelize bottlenecks, reducing feature rollout time for 27 million users across Southeast Asia • Developed RBAC access control authorization system for 2500 experimentation platform users • Developed feature to support country level experiments creation for 3 major stakeholder teams • Developed and migrated infrastructure in terraform for 4 important microservices • Improved experiment portal UI, making it more user friendly and intuitive for 2500 experiment platform users • Handled on call duties to address stakeholders queries and resolve infrastructure issues

  • Co-Founder (Product & Engineering) at Galaxy Gaming
    2021 - 2021 · Less than a year

    • Started on Ethereum and moved to Solana • Building Solana’s first NFT loaning marketplace • Researched, designed, and developed collateralized loans in Rust and Solana Programming Library • Created multi-signature ownership smart contract for non-collateralized loans of fungible and non-fungible tokens that currently does not exist in the market • Raised 200,000 SGD at a 4 million valuation from angel investors