Experience

IT Director at De Stijl Technology Network

Jun 2024Present

Web3, AI, and digital-commerce technology company headquartered in Hong Kong, with an office in Kuala Lumpur.

  • Report directly to the CEO, leading two engineering teams totalling 20+ engineers across APAC (Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, 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.
  • Directed the ground-up rebuild of the flagship product from legacy PHP to a TypeScript stack (React, Express, React Native), launching 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.
  • Architected a serverless-first AWS platform (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS, EventBridge) sustaining over 99.99% uptime.
  • Established company-wide DevOps discipline: full infrastructure as code (Terraform, SST, Pulumi), GitHub Actions CI/CD with OIDC, and automated multi-stage deployments.
  • Cut monthly user-verification costs by ~90% by replacing SMS with Twilio WhatsApp verification, while improving delivery reliability in the SEA market.
  • 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.

Software Engineer at Mega Food Limited

Dec 2023Jun 2024

Hong Kong-based premium Japanese food import/export business supplying supermarkets, restaurants, and distributors worldwide.

  • Sole technical owner — independently designed, built, and deployed software end-to-end to digitise the company's operations.
  • Built and shipped the company's B2B marketing and product-catalogue website with Next.js 15, React 19, and TypeScript, deployed serverlessly on Cloudflare Workers.
  • Automated supplier price-quote consolidation and supplier-sourcing research with custom Python scripts, eliminating repetitive manual data entry.

Full-stack Blockchain Engineer at DigiGear Technology

Oct 2022Nov 2023

Blockchain solutions studio delivering bespoke products for enterprise clients.

  • Developed and maintained scalable web applications in React and TypeScript, improving front-end load time by 30%.
  • Delivered bespoke event ticketing solutions for top-tier international financial institutions.
  • Built a library of modular React components with Storybook stories, streamlining later stages of the product lifecycle.
  • Drove architectural design decisions in the overhaul of the back-end system.

Software Developer Intern at Honcho Green Limited

Summers 20212022

Maker of AutoMi, an in-house cloud accounting platform.

  • Implemented a C# integration for the WooCommerce platform and a cross-platform data synchronisation service for in-house software.
  • Built e-commerce data import/export tooling and an automated data retrieval mechanism for a cloud accounting platform.

Education

BEng in Computer Science · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

20192022

Final Year Project: MARS — Mobile attendance taking and management system with Bluetooth LE beacons.

Higher Diploma in Information Technology (Computing and Data Science) · HKU SPACE Community College

20172019

Principal's Honours List, 2018 and 2019.

Honours & Awards

ChampionAWS AI League, AWS Summit Hong Kong

Hong Kong, 2026

Hong Kong RepresentativeAWS AI League Global Championship Grand Finale, AWS re:Invent

Las Vegas, US, 2026