About Me
I'm a Principal Software Architect and People Lead at Zühlke Group, passionate about AI integration and modern software development. Based in Singapore, I specialize in creating efficient, scalable solutions that leverage cutting-edge AI technologies to solve real-world problems in enterprise software development.
With a strong foundation in both technical architecture and people leadership, I focus on building comprehensive AI-powered applications, developing toolkits for technical teams, and creating educational resources for emerging technologies. My expertise spans from traditional web development to modern AI/ML implementations, cloud architecture, and developer productivity tools.
Recent Professional Highlights
Latest Certifications
Recently earned ICT Assessment Certification for Solution Architect from GovTech Singapore (Dec 2024) and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) from The Linux Foundation (Sep 2024)
Leadership & Mentoring
Actively leading technical teams and mentoring developers while building strong professional networks with 1K+ followers and 500+ connections on LinkedIn
Cloud & Enterprise Architecture
Certified in AWS Solutions Architecture, ForgeRock Access Management, and SAFe Agile practices, bringing enterprise-grade expertise to complex software solutions
Community Engagement
Actively engaged in the tech community, participating in hiring initiatives, team building, and knowledge sharing across global engineering teams
Career
Two decades of systems and the teams that ship them, drawn the way an architect draws a building: current work at the top, everything resting on what came before.
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2018–now
Principal Software Architect & People Lead
Zühlke · Singapore
Architecture and people, held in one job. I design AI-powered enterprise systems for clients across the region, and as People Lead I grow the engineers who ship them: mentoring, coding sessions, and craftsmanship workshops.
- Health companion platform — technical lead for a Southeast Asian healthcare provider's customer health app: native mobile, microservice APIs, cloud-native on AWS.
- Digital-bank identity platform — tech lead for the IAM foundation behind a major Singapore bank's next-generation digital banking, and the DevOps practices around it.
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2011–18
Development Manager
Tullett Prebon · Singapore
Seven years running development at an institutional broker, leading the team behind a real-time derivatives trading platform built to handle 200–300 orders a second. Where architecture and people management became the same job.
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2010–11
Assistant Vice President
Barclays Capital · Singapore
Engineering inside a global investment bank.
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2008–10
Associate
Macquarie Capital Securities · Singapore
Securities and capital-markets systems.
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2006–07
Software Engineer
BCS Information System · Singapore
First professional role, where the craft started.
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MTech, Software Engineering
National University of Singapore
The foundation the rest is built on.
Skills & Certifications
Five domains I work across, and how they connect in practice — from AI systems down through the frontend, backend, data, and the cloud they run on.
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Architecture & Leadership
- Solution Architecture
- Distributed Systems Design
- Security & Identity Architecture
- Technical Discovery & Scoping
- Product Engineering Leadership
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AI Engineering
- LLM Application Architecture
- RAG & Semantic Search
- Agentic Workflows, MCP & Tool Calling
- Realtime Voice & Multimodal AI
- LLM Evaluation, Guardrails & Human Review
- AI-Augmented SDLC
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Web & Mobile Engineering
- React, Next.js & TypeScript
- React Native & Expo
- Flutter
- Tailwind CSS & Design Systems
- Responsive & Accessible UI
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Backend & API Engineering
- Node.js & NestJS
- Python & FastAPI
- Kotlin & Ktor
- REST & GraphQL API Design
- OAuth 2.0, OIDC & RBAC
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Data & Integration
- PostgreSQL & Data Modelling
- Redis & Caching
- Data Pipelines with Glue, Athena & S3
- Vector Search & Embeddings
- Analytics APIs & Dashboards
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Cloud & Platform Engineering
- AWS & Azure
- Kubernetes, EKS & Docker
- Terraform & Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD & Release Engineering
- Observability with Datadog & OpenTelemetry
Select or focus a domain to trace its stack · drag any node to explore
Professional Certifications
Digital badges and certifications demonstrating expertise across cloud platforms, development practices, and emerging technologies.
Key Certification Areas
Featured Projects
Developer Activity
My recent contributions across GitHub, CodeHub (Zühlke GitLab) and other dev platforms.
Contribution Calendar
Photography
A curated list of photography work from my personal Flickr account.
Visit my full photography portfolio on Flickr
Get In Touch
I'm always open to discussing new projects, creative ideas, or opportunities to be part of your vision. Feel free to reach out to me through any of the platforms below.