Technology Leader · Kuala Lumpur, previously Singapore
AI changed what technology can deliver. Leadership determines whether your business captures it.
I run engineering organisations through that change: see the whole, find what is stuck, make it work. It is rarely the code.
B2B commerce to $100M at DKSH. Digital banking across 31 markets at Standard Chartered. CTO of a Singapore startup through acquisition. Twenty years of it.
Fixing these across six engineering teams: delivery velocity doubled, manual QA down 70%.
Software factories were tried in 1980s Japan and again across US Defense. Both fell short in the same way. The agentic version in 2026 is different in one specific respect, and it is not the agents.
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I build the teams and operating models that turn technology into revenue. Now at Mindvalley I lead an engineering team through its shift to AI-native, changing how the work gets done, not bolting AI on the side.
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