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Singapore

Abu Dhabi, AE

Secure and regulated digital assets custody, enabling you to invest confidently.

Abu Dhabi, AE

CredibleX powers businesses to provide their SME customers with instant access to lending solutions. Founded in Abu Dhabi in 2023, MENA’s pioneering embedded finance platform was established to address the needs of an underserved SME community that typically struggles to access financing options. CredibleX powers businesses to provide their SME customers.

Abu Dhabi, AE

Further is the region's leading Venture Studio building FinTech and Digital Asset companies. We act as an institutional co-founder to our startups, investing both capital and dedicated resources across product, tech, design, marketing, legal, and other functional capabilities. At Further we work with founders as early as idea stage to validate, prototype.

Singapore, Singapore, SG

• The EQONEX Group provided a NASDAQ listed digital asset ecosystem centered around the EQONEX exchange, the EQO token, crypto custody, trading and asset management.
• Responsible for technology across the group and a member of the executive committee.
• Led a department of 100 people covering mobile, web, backend, DevOps, data, quality assurance, product management, cybersecurity and corporate IT.
• Oversaw the development and operations of a low latency digital asset exchange with spot and derivative products. Developed onboarding journeys for retail and institutional customers incorporating KYC controls and.
• Reduced the AWS bill by $200K USD / month.
• Achieved ISO27001 certification for the group.

Hong Kong, HK

• Built a new bank from scratch with capabilities including deposits, lending, cards, payments, anti-fraud, AML, operations, finance and marketing automation.
• Led a distributed team of 150 engineers and architects to design, build, test and run a cloud native, event driven microservices architecture with web and mobile apps.
• Responsible for the technology budget, product management and delivery functions as interim CIO.
• Supported the banking licence application process and worked closely with independent assessors to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Presented Mox technology to key stakeholders such as the regulators, the board and Standard Chartered executive committees.
• Governed the overall enterprise architecture and led buy/build/reuse decisions.

Hong Kong, HK

Hong Kong, HK

Blackpool, GB

• Responsible for the delivery and operations of Tandem’s websites, mobile applications and backend systems.
• Managed 35 engineers including web, mobile, backend, DevOps and quality assurance.
• Acted as Scrum Master and scaled scrum to six teams.
• Defined and enforced coding standards, patterns and practices.
• Architected, provisioned and managed environments in Azure, AWS and on-premises.
• Defined the continuous delivery strategy and led the implementation of CI/CD pipelines.

Blackpool, GB

Blackpool, GB

• COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA – LONDON, SEOUL (JUL 2011 – AUG 2015)
• Architected and built ACDC, Commonwealth Bank’s core DevOps system for managing configuration and executing deployments.
• ACDC performed over a million deployments yearly for all of Commonwealth Bank’s major systems across all environments from development to production.
• Used by 1,000+ applications with a total of 10M+ files and 280GB+ of configuration data which was deployed to 1,500+ servers.RANKINGS HQ – SEOUL (MAR 2010 – JUL 2011)
• Used the.NET Platform to develop web, mobile and desktop applications to manage tournaments. This included the development of CI/CD pipelines, payment gateway integrations and a Swiss system-based tournament rankings.
• Established and implemented a database release process for managing CommSec’s white label stockbroking platform.

London, GB

Set up a Content Management System and a SMS application using ASP, SQL Server 2000 and IIS.Built a thick J2EE front-end for a document management system (Autonomy).