May 2022 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Singapore

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Sep 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Singapore

• Building product and enabling transformation in FairPrice Group

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos

Dec 2015 – May 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Grew and managed a 130+ sized product & engineering organisation across 4 hubs – Singapore (50+), Taipei (60+), Bangalore (20+), Ho Chi Minh (5+)
• Developed job levels and compensation banding for individual contributors and managers across engineering, data, product management and project roles across all hubs
• Managed a wide variety of functions in terms of strategy and roadmap – Product Engineering, DevOps, Data Science, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence
• Develop a strong engineering culture of trust, quality and ownership with emphasis on teams, not individuals
• Drive decisions on technology choices such as Build vs Buy and technology stacks
• Dive deep and be hands-on when necessary to get ground context in the business, operations and tech to facilitate higher level decision making
• Oversee logistics and eCommerce product development for 8 geographies – SG, HK, TW, MY, PH, TH, ID, JP
• Manage stakeholders to crystallise business needs and perform product roadmap prioritisation
• Led product and engineering development for habitat by honestbee, a Food and Groceries O2O retail store
• Handle incoming product and technology due diligence for fund raising
• PR trained and served as the spokesperson for English and Chinese media and events
• honestbee tech stack: AWS, Kubernetes, DataDog (Monitoring), Drone CI, Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch, RoR, Golang, Python (Data), Airflow, Redshift, Looker (BI), Node/React, React Native, iOS, Android, Git

Jan 2015 – Dec 2015 · 11 mos

• Development and code reviews for for consumer web (Node.js, rendr.js) and backend (Ruby on Rails)
• Set up CI/CD (AWS, Travis CI) and BI Tools (Periscope)

Aug 2014 – Dec 2014 · 4 mos · Singapore

• • Led the MVP development of a headhunting network in Ruby on Rails

Jun 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Singapore

• Developed a search engine using JavaScript, Node.JS, ElasticSearch to query a candidate database • Developed LinkedIn search SOPs and automated repetitive work via a Chrome Extension
• Self-trained as a recruitment consultant specialising in technical recruitment
• Generated revenue from recruitment that moved the company into the black in 2014 Q1

May 2012 – Aug 2012 · 3 mos · Singapore

• Led a team of developers to develop, enhance and deploy systems for 5 different Voluntary Welfare Organisations (VWO) with PHP and Drupal 7.
• Carried out requirement studies for the systems involved.
• Managed clients’ requirements and expectations realistically to prevent feature creep and ensure timely deployment.

May 2010 – Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Singapore

• Worked in a team that was involved in building a Client Management System for Movement for the Intellectually Disabled in Singapore (MINDS).
• Developed the Attendance Taking and Attendance Reporting modules.

Jul 2010 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr · Menlo Park, San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed language localisation for Zong's products across 30+ countries worldwide. Streamlined the localisation workflow from the start (communicating with vendors) to the end (deployment) to ensure quick response time while maintaining low costs. Wait time for translations from vendors was shortened from 2 weeks to 3 days.
• Developed a Flash demo game implementing one of Zong’s newest product – a headless mobile API payments solution. Demo game was used as a showcase in presentations for clients and conventions.
• Assisted product team to gather analytics data and carry out testing of product payments flow across multiple countries using DeviceAnywhere.