Career
A decade or so across payments, growth, and infrastructure — roughly half as an individual contributor and half leading teams — and lately, a lot of AI.
Education
- National University of Singapore — Bachelor of Computer Science, 1st Class Honours (2010–2014)
- UC San Diego — Computer Science, exchange (2012)
Apr 2026–Present
Senior Staff Software Engineer · Meta
- Re-platforming products from legacy, proprietary stacks onto an AI-native stack, and building agentic automation on frontier models.
Jun 2022–Mar 2026
Staff Software Engineer / Engineering Manager · Google
- Led engineering for Google Pay across infra, release, social, and comms — scaling the team from 4 to 15.
- Drove GenAI initiatives: streaming, generative UI, agentic campaigns, and an AI chatbot.
- Landed the Google Pay Merchant app's migration to Flutter across 20 engineers and 3 sites.
Apr 2021–Jun 2022
Tech Lead Manager · ByteDance
- Built and led a 20+ engineer team across Singapore and Beijing for paid ads and CRM, from inception.
Jul 2016–Mar 2021
Senior Software Engineer · Google
- Led an infrastructure team supporting ~150 engineers across 7 sites; mentored engineers and tech leads.
- Co-led the iOS team to feature parity with a much larger Android team, at lower crash rates and higher ratings.
Jun 2014–Jun 2016
Software Engineer · Sea (Garena)
- Built global payment services and a mobile-games open platform deployed across 7 APAC countries.