I am a technology leader with 20+ years of experience building scalable systems, cloud-native platforms, and high-throughput transaction flows. I excel at aligning C-level strategy with execution, mentoring engineering leaders, and delivering robust software that scales in complex environments. My career highlights include driving Ebay-scale blogs and social platforms, migrating large-scale properties to AWS with SOA governance, and delivering high-impact products like GrabRewards in under 3 months. I thrive in data-driven, security-conscious settings and enjoy mentoring teams to ship reliable, secure systems while continuously improving engineering practices.

I am a technology leader with 20+ years of experience building scalable systems, cloud-native platforms, and high-throughput transaction flows. I excel at aligning C-level strategy with execution, mentoring engineering leaders, and delivering robust software that scales in complex environments. My career highlights include driving Ebay-scale blogs and social platforms, migrating large-scale properties to AWS with SOA governance, and delivering high-impact products like GrabRewards in under 3 months. I thrive in data-driven, security-conscious settings and enjoy mentoring teams to ship reliable, secure systems while continuously improving engineering practices.

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I am a technology leader with 20+ years of experience building scalable systems, cloud-native platforms, and high-throughput transaction flows. I excel at aligning C-level strategy with execution, mentoring engineering leaders, and delivering robust software that scales in complex environments.

My career highlights include driving Ebay-scale blogs and social platforms, migrating large-scale properties to AWS with SOA governance, and delivering high-impact products like GrabRewards in under 3 months. I thrive in data-driven, security-conscious settings and enjoy mentoring teams to ship reliable, secure systems while continuously improving engineering practices.

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Work Experience

Consultant at Aida Lab
August 1, 2023 - Present
Provide project and contract-based consultant services to clients. Worked with Pantheon Lab to integrate cybersecurity solutions with bank systems; designed and implemented ISO 27001 certification plans; designed multi-agent Conversation Engine with LLM integration, offline transcription features, and semantic search. Led development of Audit Bot using ASR + LLMs and contributed to various client projects including HomeGlobal.sg, OpenPrivilege.com CMS, and WorkRamen.
Chief Technology Officer at Speedoc PTE LTD
August 1, 2023 - October 27, 2025
Led Digital Product department (≈60 talents) and oversaw IT security controls to meet ISO 27001; steered the PDPC undertaking as a remedial measure; migrated from monolith to microservices with standardized API contracts, idempotency, and background workers; designed CI/CD and IaC pipelines; built data pipeline (Airflow), data warehouse (Redshift), and dashboards with GenAI capabilities; guided Lean product management and clinic management system development.
Consultant at Freelance
February 1, 2022 - October 27, 2025
Provided project and contract-based consultancy for multiple clients, including ArtWallStreet.io (Circle Payment + Ethereum NFT on Polygon with minting), EatMatch (ETL from Firebase Firestore to Google Cloud BigQuery for analytics), and Wizly (UI/Onboarding improvements and deployment optimization).
VP of Technology at EVO Holdings
May 1, 2021 - October 27, 2025
Launched EVO's first product EvoLive, a platform for streamers and live sellers, in 1.5 months with a small team. Tech stack included Golang, Next.js, Checkout, AWS ECS, MongoDB, and Terraform-managed infrastructure.
Deputy Director at SP Digital, SP Group
July 1, 2020 - October 27, 2025
Participated in the Digital Grid Taskforce; helped define DERMS solution; implemented Internet Surfing Separation; established SP Digital IT support processes; led Chrono Framework for timeseries data management and Chronos+ forecasting; supported data-driven initiatives including migrant worker movement tracking during Covid-19.
Lead Engineer / Engineering Manager at Grab Singapore
August 1, 2017 - October 27, 2025
Managed GrabRewards Engineering Team; designed, developed, and deployed GrabRewards from scratch in two months with deep integration into Grab Microservices Mesh; built real-time user targeting to apply dynamic business rules using an event-driven architecture and data-driven recommendations.
Architect / Senior Tech Lead at PayPal Singapore
August 1, 2016 - October 27, 2025
Provided architecture and design guidance for engineers to meet business requirements and dependencies while adhering to Paypal engineering guidelines.
CTO at Wedilo.com PTE LTD
October 1, 2015 - October 27, 2025
Launched a high-performance captive portal for WiFi hotspot login, including Hotel Dashboard, Consumer Site, and Internal Admin Site within two weeks.
Co-founder / CEO / CTO at SweetSpring Media
March 1, 2015 - October 27, 2025
Founded and led the company, built high-performance websites, managed budgets, and steered product development with a small team and limited infrastructure.
Software Architect at PropertyGuru
February 1, 2014 - October 27, 2025
Architected SOA-based system to reduce cost and increase performance; developed Big Data components using MongoDB and AWS Redshift; led RapidResponse Team to improve bug metrics and deployment turnaround; stabilized AWS infrastructure to improve site availability.
Senior WebServer Engineer at Razer
April 1, 2011 - October 27, 2025
Built REST API platform on LAMP stack for desktop apps and contributed to backend services.
Lead Software Engineer at Yahoo (US, Taiwan, Singapore)
May 1, 2010 - October 27, 2025
Managed Yahoo Adsystem daily operations; developed monitoring tools for vital statistics; oversaw Yahoo Search frontend (400+ servers) and led the 360+ blogging platform with 10M users and billions of monthly pageviews.
Software QA Engineer at Avant! Corp.
May 1, 2000 - October 27, 2025
QA engineer involved in software quality assurance and testing activities.
VLSI Layout Engineer at Altera Corp.
May 1, 1998 - October 27, 2025
VLSI layout engineering experience in hardware design workflows.

Education

B.S. in Computer Engineering at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
January 1, 1996 - January 1, 1997

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Healthcare, Education, Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services