I'm a Senior Engineering Manager who stays close to the code. I've scaled engineering orgs across SEA and South Asia — leading platforms that serve 97M+ users across 10+ countries — and built security practices that actually hold up under regulatory scrutiny.
My belief: a manager who can't read the architecture document can't lead the team that wrote it. Currently pursuing an MBA and working towards CISSP — because the problems I care about sit at the intersection of business, engineering, and security. Outside work, I tinker: home labs, IoT, smart home automation, and anything that can be hacked together on a Raspberry Pi.
I fully embrace AI — I've spent years testing, building with, and watching its capabilities compound in real time. There's always one or more active AI-driven side projects running. Beyond development, I reach for AI across planning, writing, research, and day-to-day decisions. The right model for the right job.
Industries
Fintech·Consumer Lending·Wealth Management·Healthtech·E-commerce·Investment Platforms
I've built and led engineering teams across five markets in SEA and South Asia — hiring locally, navigating each country's talent landscape, and managing across time zones, languages, and work cultures.
Team Building & Org Design
Hiring, structuring, and growing distributed engineering teams of 20–30+ across SEA and South Asia. Building the rituals and culture that make teams retain and perform — not just recruit.
Reduced hiring cycles · improved retention · expansion into new markets
Hands-on Technical Leadership
Staying close to the codebase, architecture decisions, and PR reviews. Technical credibility that earns trust from engineers — and translates complex tradeoffs into plain language for stakeholders.
Faster delivery cycles · reduced operational risk · improved engineering predictability
Security & DevSecOps
Embedding InfoSec into the SDLC — not as compliance theatre, but as an engineering discipline. Threat modelling, secure pipelines, incident response, and teams that take ownership of security outcomes.
Reduced vulnerability exposure · security culture that scales with the team
Delivery & Engineering Strategy
Turning product goals into roadmaps that engineering can actually execute. Managing scope, stakeholders, and cross-timezone complexity — so the business gets reliable delivery without micromanaging the team.
On-time delivery · improved cross-functional alignment · predictable velocity
AI-Augmented Delivery
Management, planning, product grooming, solutioning, UI/UX design, development, and deployment — paired with AI — compresses what used to take months into weeks. It gives teams disproportionate leverage, and makes it possible to take a product from concept to live end-to-end. Each AI model has its strengths; knowing which to reach for is the skill.
concept → production in weeks · amplify delivery across the entire org · ship faster with or without a team
ArgusPAM
Database Privileged Access Management tool with AI-powered risk assessment and anomaly detection. Provides real-time access governance, behavioural threat scoring, and audit controls for database environments in regulated financial services. Built to bridge the gap between enterprise PAM tooling and practical database security for fintech operators.