I've been automating my way out of boredom since 2015. In my third year of engineering, I got tired of refreshing the college results page during holidays — so I wrote a scraper that played music on my laptop when the page changed. Then I didn't stop. I scraped the entire college's results, bypassed the captcha (it was just adding two numbers), and suddenly had grades for every department — friends, rivals, crushes, exes, the lot. Repetition is a design flaw. That thought shaped everything I've built since — and somewhere along the way, the love for building itself took over.
These days I work on tech strategy, org design, and talent attraction — the stuff that shapes how engineering actually functions. Most orgs end up optimising for local wins — not because anyone chose to, but because the org design, communication flows, and incentive structures made it inevitable. I apply engineering thinking to those problems: theory of constraints on how teams collaborate, org design treated like system design, fixing the structures that make people optimise for themselves instead of the whole. You don't build a basketball team by replacing football players one at a time — you redesign the game, and the mindset follows. I teach at HyperVerge Academy — something that gives me real joy, helping folks who want to help themselves — speak at conferences, and run a 2,000+ member tech community.
Somewhere in between, I picked up General Management at IIMB — for fun, mostly. Ended up finishing top of the class as the youngest in the cohort, winning strategy competitions along the way. Turns out questioning how things are managed is something I can't stop doing.
I wrote the first line of code for a digital bank that went on to serve 1.5 million customers in 18 months. Architected most of the critical services — built a 5-minute microservice templating system with all the bells and whistles before Backstage was even a thing. Designed the full network path: traffic hitting edge, mTLS to API gateway, through Kubernetes, down to databases and on-prem data centres. HA clusters, DC failover drills, regulatory approvals, everything as code — including a hacky but working HA Kafka setup across only 2 availability zones on Alicloud. Scaled the team from 3 engineers to 300, and migrated the entire cloud from Alicloud to GCP with just 4 hours of downtime. Everything automated, nothing left to chance.
Before that, I helped the largest telco in Southeast Asia re-architect their consumer apps to handle 30 million users — taking them from 5 million without breaking a sweat. Across my career, I've built across insurance, gaming, banking, and SaaS ecosystems.
I've tried the startup thing. PMF stayed elusive. Currently testing an idea at the intersection of learning and markets.
Problem solver at heart. I question processes the way others question tech debt — because process debt is just as real and twice as ignored. I have opinions about everything that matters: time, money, partners, family, friends, and work. Most of them end up here.