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Career TL;DR
Summary of my professional life
If a traditional resume works better for you, you can download my latest from this page (I'm pretty proud of having a LaTex resume, wdyt?)
TL;DR a technologist hoping to start my own thing someday. Founded a startup in 2014, made some bank but not enough to be considered a real job; also taught me how inexperienced I was with technology. Joined the Singapore government's digital transformation team thereafter, made wonderful relationships and thoroughly enjoyed the social-good aspects but got worn out from the bureaucracy from beyond my department. Joined StashAway, loved it but it matured beyond a startup pretty soon after I joined. So I went to an even earlier stage startup to get my full startup experience. Currently at watchTowr as a founding member building a system to help secure large organisations; because which techie doesn't think having a legitimate reason to hack others is cool?
- 1.You are trying to deliver awesome software products/services using Agile methodologies
- 2.You're looking to improve the business and technological resiliency of your product through adoption of cloud-native architectures and technologies such as Kubernetes
- 3.You're looking to kickstart a sustainanable engineering culture with a focus on the fine line between engineering excellence and delivery effectiveness
- 4.You're looking for someone who is both technically capable and business-savvy to front an engineering team
- 1.You are in the bootstrap/scaling out phase of the product/organisation
- 2.You pay well and my rewards are tied to performance instead of butt-in-chair time
- 3.You focus on outcomes over processes with a culture of trust and autonomy
- 4.You can offer me a challenge that involves both people and engineering
- 1.Stared programming with C++ using Borland and DJGPP in 1999
- 2.Got banned from Neopets after automating my trading of marketplace items in 2000
- 3.Removed IT controls on laboratory computers in and enabled my class to play counterstrike over LAN in 2001
- 4.Created a tool that helps life science researchers easily find primer sequences to order for PCR analysis in 2013
- 5.Founded and bootstrapped my own tech startup serving as a platform for local musicians to be heard in 2015. Earned my right to say I've received the fabled First Dollar™.
- 6.Joined the digital transformation team at GovTech in 2016 before it was cool and was part of its growth from about 100 people to about 500
- 7.Part of the seed team that brought the MyCareersFuture product in GovTech from zero to one in 2017, helping to scale the engineering team from two to 25
- 8.Brought Kubernetes and IaC concepts into the tech stack of MyCareersFuture in 2017 way before Kubernetes was cool
- 9.Did a technical demo of MyCareersFuture's CI/CD pipeline to the Prime Minister of Singapore in 2018
- 10.Spoke at the DevOpsDays Singapore 2018 conference
- 11.Met the authors behind many super-widely-used open-soruce packages at KubeCon Barcelona in 2019
- 12.Serendipitously had lunch with Kent Beck in Singapore in 2019
- 13.Led my tribe's DevOps chapter and co-led my department's DevOps chapter from 2019-2020
- 14.Got more than 100 stars on a single Github repository in 2019
- 15.Managed to somehow get a new job when COVID first hit in 2020 and everything was a mess
- 16.Got the chance to mentor junior engineers at JuniorDevSG in 2020
- 17.Attended the Newfield Ontological Coaching programme and graduated as a trained coach in 2021
- 18.Led the implementation of an organisation-wide runbook solution at StashAway in 2021
- 19.Led the Communications Guild at StashAway in 2021
- 20.Part of the architects group at StashAway in 2021
- 21.Joined watchTowr in 2022 as a founding team member
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