Singapore
Senior Cloud & Network Architect with 20+ years driving enterprise digital transformations across Banking, Media, and Automotive sectors. Currently providing strategic advisory to ASEAN public sector agencies on cloud adoption and digital government initiatives. Extensive experience delivering multi-million-dollar cloud migrations and architectural solutions for Fortune 500 clients. Proven expertise in resilient, high-performance, hybrid cloud strategies, security compliance, and cost optimization. Led critical infrastructure architecture for Hong Kong's first virtual bank, architected global hybrid network connectivity for global bank's cloud first strategy and led cloud networking and security architecture for Japanese smart city.
Leading cloud adoption strategy for ASEAN public sector finance agencies, driving digital transformation initiatives and delivering technical thought leadership across the region. • Strategic Pipeline Development: Leading early-stage conversations with several ASEAN central banks, revenue departments, and ministry of finances on differentiation of cloud architectures, modern data and AI/ML strategies to deliver key business intelligence, fraud detection and compliance/regulatory reporting capabilities. • Digital government agency national scale payment platforms: architectural and security review and enablement of key ASEAN country’s ability to manage government to citizens disbursements. The platform was designed to scale to handle 5 to 10 million active users monthly whilst processing 100k transactions per second. The platform demonstrated its capabilities through a major support program that distributed USD $200million to 120k farmers. • Technical Leadership: Active AWS Technical Field Community member specializing in networking, presenting deep dive technical workshops, game days and roadshows on advanced topics such as Cloud networking, IPv6, Network security, zero-trust application networking, global routing, scalability and resilience to customer on a regular basis.
Designed and delivered advanced cloud architecture solutions for AWS's enterprise clients across finance, automotive, and media industries, specializing in complex network strategies and compliance requirements. Global Multinational Bank (Hong Kong) - Mobile Payment Migration • Network Design: Created phased migration connectivity patterns ensuring 99.99% uptime during transition. • Documentation: Delivered architecture documents across platforms, data, security domains for governance approval. Global Automotive Company - Smart City Initiative (Japan) • Drove strategic architectural alignment: through executive workshops, architectural consultations, and development of reference architectures. • Delivery: designed and delivered AWS Organizations structure, hybrid connectivity, virtual private cloud (VPC) connectivity and security inspection patterns aligned to organizational security controls. Provided Terraform modules and Cloudformation templates for networking capabilities.
Led enterprise cloud connectivity strategy and implementation across multiple regions, managing hybrid cloud architecture. • Hybrid Cloud Architecture: Engineered SCB's hybrid cloud connectivity (MPLS, BGP, L2VPN, L3VPN, Firewalls, AWS, Azure) across Europe and East Asia, migrated 700+ cloud workloads with 99.99% uptime • Cost Optimization: Achieved $1million+ annual savings by re-inventing the networking architecture to utilize advanced connectivity architecture • Multi-Region Expansion: Designed resilient AWS and Azure connectivity across 5 regions countries using 3rd party carrier “network as a service” (NaaS) solutions • Security Framework: Developed security trust definitions ensuring robust controls across two cloud service providers and on-premises networks • Strategic Consultation: Advised SC Ventures and CIO teams on emerging market initiatives including BaaS and blockchain in AWS
• Led the architecture and delivery of network infrastructure for Hong Kong's first virtual bank. • Ensured compliance with HKMA-CRAF regulatory standards within a tight 3-month beta release timeline. • Designed a secure network environment supporting 4 million monthly transactions, integrating critical partners like SWIFT and TransUnion. • Developed hybrid connectivity and cloud-native networking solutions for KYC and fraud detection systems.
• Low-Latency Optimization: Managed HFT network infrastructure processing $122B daily volume with predictable P99 latency • Performance Enhancement: Optimized routing, load balancer and firewall configurations, improving latency and failover mechanism by 30%
Lead network architect
As part of the Engineering team defining Network standards and architecture. • Led global IP routing and switching engineering initiatives • Wrote standards on VRF segmentation, Multicast and campus designs. • Designed remote desktop hosting environment across 14 global data centers supporting 80k end users.