Founding Engineer at Talk to Breezi Ltd (2025-09 – Present)
- Crafting an AI-powered conversational platform aimed at facilitating therapeutic-style conversations and guided user journeys, enabling users to feel acknowledged while capturing meaningful session insights.
- Architected a flexible, multi-provider LLM layer (OpenAI, Gemini, Bedrock) to enable adaptable, context-aware conversations without the need to rewrite core logic.
- Designed and implemented safety-focused systems, combining rule-based detection and AI classification to identify risks, respond appropriately, and maintain audit-friendly visibility.
- Engineered voice-to-session workflows, capturing real conversations, transcribing them, and transforming them into structured sessions for ongoing support and reflection.
- Developed a conversation intelligence layer, featuring AI summarisation, personality-aware responses, and configurable prompts, allowing for a more personalised and empathetic user experience.
Lead Full-stack Developer, Founding Engineer at STRAT7 Jigsaw (2019-02 – Present)
- Forged a long-term strategic partnership while serving as technical architect, DevOps owner, and AI lead for an award-winning research platform.
- Reported directly to the Group CTO, exercising full autonomy over the technical roadmap.
- Conceptualised and architected "Whycatcher", evolving a blank-page concept into a global enterprise production system.
- Engineered high-availability AWS infrastructure and a Laravel/Vue backend to efficiently manage complex research workflows (surveys, polls, real-time discussion forums) at scale.
- Overseen end-to-end technical delivery, acting as the de-facto technical owner for security, stability, and DevOps.
- MRS Innovation of the Year (2020) – Recognised for the platform's architectural impact on conversational research.
- Championed the company's Generative AI pivot by architecting RAG-based analysis pipelines using Claude (Bedrock) and OpenAI to automate complex qualitative research.
- Designed and deployed "Maya", a fully autonomous AI WhatsApp moderator that manages participant engagement and sentiment analysis in real-time, reducing manual setup efforts by ~80%.
- Developed multi-modal data capture, integrating AssemblyAI (audio-to-text) and WhatsApp to enable conversational research at a global scale.
- Pioneered the use of Cursor and Claude Code within the workflow to enhance feature velocity and code quality.
Full-stack Developer at Uncharted Partners (2018-11 – 2019-02)
- Served as Engineering Lead for an early-stage fintech startup, accelerating the launch of a greenfield online insurance brokerage platform.
- Architected and delivered secure RESTful APIs using Laravel to support complex financial transactions.
- Developed a high-performance Vue.js/Nuxt frontend, implementing enterprise-grade authentication and secure data-handling protocols.
- Acted as a technical partner to a small founding team, driving high-velocity engineering decisions and rapid product iteration in a fast-paced fintech environment.
Full Stack Developer at Templar Executives Ltd (2018-08 – 2023-06)
- Served as the Founding Engineer & Sole Developer – Managed the delivery of a greenfield maritime cybersecurity platform, from inception to architecting the entire system (backend, frontend, and infrastructure).
- Designed mission-critical architecture – Built a secure, high-stakes Laravel application focused on cyber-risk mitigation, successfully launching it as a core component of a Singaporean Cyber Security Centre of Excellence.
- Maintained long-term strategic stewardship – Established deep institutional trust, resulting in multiple re-engagements over a five-year period to lead architectural expansions, security audits, and ongoing technical direction.
- Emphasised regulatory and security-first design – Architected the platform with a rigorous focus on data integrity and risk management for the highly regulated maritime and maritime security sectors.
Full Stack Developer at AngloInfo Ltd (Smartexpat.com) (2018-01 – 2018-07)
- Executed high-traffic scaling and performance strategies – Engineered the rapid scaling of a global expat platform to serve over 2M monthly sessions and 4.5M page views, achieving a global Alexa rank of 44k within 90 days of launch.
- Led legacy-to-Laravel transformation – Directed the technical migration from a complex legacy environment to a modern, high-performance Laravel architecture (SmartExpat), maintaining 100% uptime for the live platform.
- Enhanced infrastructure security and resilience – Proactively mitigated sustained, multi-region DDoS attacks, ensuring platform stability and availability during a period of massive global user growth.
- Optimised cloud performance – Streamlined AWS infrastructure (EC2, ELB, CloudFront) to handle worldwide traffic distribution with sub-second response times for a global user base of over 1M users.
Full Stack Developer at Vodafone Group plc (2017-01 – 2017-12)
- Engineered enterprise platform architecture – Designed a complex internal pricing and quotation system for global operations, handling multi-currency, multi-language, and sophisticated role-based access control (RBAC).
- Demonstrated security and compliance leadership – Led the platform through rigorous independent penetration testing and enterprise security audits, achieving full certification for use within Vodafone's global infrastructure.
- Architected complex data models – Developed a high-performance Laravel/Vue.js engine to support intricate product configurations and dynamic pricing logic across diverse international markets.
- Optimised UI/UX for enterprise tools – Designed and constructed a high-utility frontend using Vuex and Semantic UI, prioritising data density and user efficiency for internal procurement and sales teams.
Senior Front-end Developer at Modulr Finance Ltd (2016-01 – 2016-12)
- Early engineer on a high-growth API banking platform, building the first-generation customer experience
- Designed and delivered the core portal for multi-currency accounts, payments, and real-time reporting
- Built secure, scalable interfaces supporting high-volume financial workflows and data integrity
- Collaborated closely with the engineering team to translate complex APIs into intuitive, high-performance user experiences
UI Developer at Monitise Group Plc (2012-01 – 2015-02)
- Collaborated with Visa to design and prototype fraud prevention and authentication systems (3D Secure)
- Delivered enterprise-grade mobile banking and financial interfaces used by millions of customers globally
- Acted as a technical bridge between product and engineering, translating complex financial and cryptographic requirements into intuitive user experiences
- Led R&D prototyping of emerging fintech products, driving technical feasibility and user-focused design
Intranet UI Developer at BG Group plc (2008-02 – 2012-01)
- Delivered large-scale intranet applications used by 25k+ employees across global business units
- Provided technical leadership and mentorship, establishing front-end best practices and coding standards
- Led end-to-end delivery across the full SDLC in both Agile and enterprise (Waterfall) environments
- Optimised complex, data-heavy applications for global performance, achieving sub-second response times and high accessibility
