Experience

Antler

• Singapore
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 700 & Above Employee

• Entrepreneur in Residence

  • Aug 2023 - Present

  Antler is a VC fund supporting entrepreneurs with a day-zero incubator programme. While tinkering with ML/AI techniques, I developed a large-language model (LLM) chatbot that can provide answers to any taxation law questions with citations to the source, legislations and cases. Built two landing pages with contact forms. Provided technical advice to early start-ups, often talking directly to founders to help them succeed with product-market fit and ideation. Antler is a VC fund supporting entrepreneurs with a day-zero incubator programme. While tinkering with ML/AI techniques, I developed a large-language model (LLM) chatbot that can provide answers to any taxation law questions with citations to the source, legislations and cases. Built two landing pages with contact forms. Provided technical advice to early start-ups, often talking directly to founders to help them succeed with product-market fit and ideation.



Macquarie Group

• Australia
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Lead

  • Mar 2023 - Jul 2023

  As the technical lead for a specialised team that maintains an application that supports international transactions and financial reporting used internally to facilitate syndicated loans, I helped to reduce support time by enforcing post-mortem, 5 whys. Make sure new code is up to standard by code-review, automated tooling, and making sure acceptance criteria are well thought out. Create and update architecture diagrams to improve knowledge sharing. Coordinate the team spanning 5 time zones across the globe. The role does not match my expectation, I left the position at the end of June to search for product focused roles. Key responsibilities: •Improve development experience •Facilitate agile ceremonies •Review architecture •Facilitate knowledge sharing sessions •Mentoring and help team members set professional goals that aligns with project Tech stack: •Java, Spring, AWS Show less



Lendi

• Australia
• Financial Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Aug 2022 - Mar 2023

  I rejoined Lendi for: continued learning, contacted by a previous colleague to come back, and wanted a more permanent role outside of contracting.Planned many large scale projects that spanned across the business. I design and build well-documented event-driven systems that handle near real-time processing which allows brokers to do KYC and better inform customers, and qualifies people for their home loan. I used my in-depth understanding of home loans and its customer journey to fast-track product development. Onboarded and mentored software engineers.At Lendi I am proud to have had the smoothest release in the company's history, receiving the feedback “Smoothest release at Lendi!” from the product managers. This was achieved with extensive planning, cross-team collaboration, frequent re-prioritisation, enhanced observability, and eventually, on-time delivery.Left the position to pursue a technical lead role.Key responsibilities: •Project and sprint planning •Showcase new tech to engineering team •Facilitate agile ceremonies •Improve developer experience by process automation, and manage task dependencies •Improved developer productivity by automating manual process •Onboarding and mentoringTech stack: •Kafka, NodeJs, AWS •LaunchDarkly, Buildkite •Typescript Show less

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2021 - Sep 2022



Eclipx Group

• Australia
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Lead back-end engineer

  • Jul 2020 - Dec 2020

  Led and architected the consolidation of the novated leasing platform to replace three existing platforms, under strict project deadlines, I was able to deliver it on-time. Spearheaded a green-field project that transitioned back-ends systems from a monolithic architecture to a microservice architecture for better maintainability. Left the position to prioritise professional growth, and a balanced work schedule. •Sprint planning •Triage •Technical design •Code review Tech stack: •VueJs, Typescript •NodeJs, pubSub, Auth0, PostgreSQL Show less



Lendi

• Australia
• Financial Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Mar 2019 - Jun 2020

  At the scaling startup Lendi, I was the inaugural hire for the decision engine team. I spearheaded the challenging transition from a legacy monolithic system to an event-driven architecture. Tasked with integrating new and old systems, I set high coding standards and built efficient, consistent services using Kafka in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Left the position to expand product development skills. Key responsibilities: •Finding requirements •Code review •Develop internal toolings for developer and business •Onboarding Tech stack: •Redis •DynamoDB •NodeJs with Typescript •Java 12 •Kotlin •PostgreSQL •Kafka •Typescript, React, MaterialUI •Terraform Show less



Allwrencher

• Wholesale
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Owner

  • May 2018 - Dec 2018

  Allwrencher is a hand tool online retail business.Most of the business is automated, and product delivery service solely relies on Amazon FBA. Allwrencher is a hand tool online retail business.Most of the business is automated, and product delivery service solely relies on Amazon FBA.



World Manager

• Australia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Oct 2016 - May 2018

  E-learning platform • Maintain legacy codebase • Project planning, designing, scheduling, and reporting • UI/UX planning, design, development, and testing • PHP legacy maintenance • Rewriting application to new system; PHP -> Angular/Java • Scala, Java-Spring REST APIs • Angular, Sass, building component • Improve test coverage, rework tests- JUnit, integration testing, Selenium • Framework/tool research • Technical documentation E-learning platform • Maintain legacy codebase • Project planning, designing, scheduling, and reporting • UI/UX planning, design, development, and testing • PHP legacy maintenance • Rewriting application to new system; PHP -> Angular/Java • Scala, Java-Spring REST APIs • Angular, Sass, building component • Improve test coverage, rework tests- JUnit, integration testing, Selenium • Framework/tool research • Technical documentation



Cammy

• Australia
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Feb 2016 - Aug 2016

  • Created scalable RESTful API with safe and scalable data structures • Created API gateways and de-coupled API services to microservices • Created unit-agnostic Haskell library for measurements • Created Haskell parsers for Session Description Protocol • Created API Swagger documentations • Front-end: Created, deployed and maintained NodeJS front-end web servers • Front-end: Created internal tooling (with React, NodeJS, and D3) • Front-end: Created manageable, reusable React components • Front-end: Created scalable React web page with understanding of code/structure clarity in JS • Learned and practice with maintainable development stream using Git • Practice and gained fundamental understanding for reliable CI/deployments for development, staging, and production • Learned to organise API errors with with understanding of the nature of front-end requirements • Developed consistent and sensible coding habits for code clarity (JS, Scala) Show less



Private tutor

• Java, Prolog Tutor

  • Mar 2013 - Nov 2015

  • Developed training materials • Successfully improved students’ performance • Developed efficient, fast-tracked learning environment • Developed training materials • Successfully improved students’ performance • Developed efficient, fast-tracked learning environment



Macquarie University

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Coach

  • Mar 2013 - Nov 2013

  • Developed training materials • Successfully improved students’ performance • Developed efficient, fast-tracked learning environment • Developed training materials • Successfully improved students’ performance • Developed efficient, fast-tracked learning environment