IT Director at De Stijl Technology Network
Jun 2024 to Aug 2026
Web3, AI, and digital-commerce technology company headquartered in Hong Kong, with an office in Kuala Lumpur.
Scope
- Reported directly to the CEO, leading two engineering teams of 20+ engineers across Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Mainland China.
- Built the IT department from the ground up: personally recruited and hired all 25+ members across engineering, QA, design, and project management.
Systems
- Directed the ground-up rebuild of the flagship product from legacy PHP to a TypeScript stack (React, Express, React Native).
- Architected a serverless-first AWS platform: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS, EventBridge.
- Established company-wide DevOps discipline: infrastructure as code (Terraform, SST, Pulumi), GitHub Actions CI/CD with OIDC, and automated multi-stage deployments.
- Instituted engineering standards across regional teams: mandatory PR reviews with CI gates, strict TypeScript with shared ts-rest API contracts, daily standups, and incident postmortems.
Impact
- Launched PFun Store in Feb 2025 under a tight schedule; now serving 16,000+ users.
- Launched DxSxT Network, a mobile-first Web3 mining platform with a Solana on-chain layer, in Oct 2025; grown to 175,000+ users.
- Maintained 99.99%+ uptime across production infrastructure.
- Cut monthly user-verification costs by ~90% by replacing SMS with Twilio WhatsApp verification, while improving delivery reliability in the SEA market.