I start everything by asking: "Is this the right thing to do?" before moving on to "How do we do this right?"Empathetic, data driven and battle hardened engineering leader that doesn’t subscribe to “magical thinking”; let’s find the evidence! I cut through the cruft and focus on solving root causes. I can manage, lead and code.Career highlights:- Achieved 6x reduction in downtime at a FinTech- Improve feature release cadence by over 2x while utilising existing resources through coaching, mentorship and adopting better engineering discipline (TDD, pair programming, architectural refactoring & introducing Elm)- Manage engineering department budget of US$1.2M annually- Expertise in applying AI judiciously in problem domains where they make sense (dodge the hype train!)
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Engineering LeadNextpay (Yc W21) Feb 2022 - PresentSingapore- Develop and manage financial systems that transact over US$52 million annually with high SLA (99.91%). Integrations with Xendit, Stripe and Union Bank's proprietary banking API.- Built brand new product vertical for sales-lead generation using multi-agent chain-of-thought LLM (Claude 3), increasing MRR by 23% in the quarter post-release.- Operationalise DevSecOps mindset: 6x reduction in downtime for the same time period year-on-year- Increase velocity by leading massive code refactoring and mentorship of 12 engineers: median feature release cadence improved from 35 days to 15 days- Leading recruitment efforts for senior engineering talent -
Co-Founder & CtoOnigiri.Ai Feb 2021 - Feb 2022SingaporeOnigiri is an ecosystem of intelligent, technology-driven tools designed to support founders throughout their fundraising journey.- Train RNN-based AI systems for matching startups and VCs based on known and hidden attributes- Cumulatively, startups raised over USD$1.5M through our AI driven matchmaking platform- Recruitment and hiring of founding software and AI engineers- Fundraised US$300K -
Entrepreneur @ Ef Sg9Entrepreneur First Jan 2021 - May 2021SingaporeEntrepreneur First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch.Launched https://beta.onigiri.ai as part of SG9 cohort. -
Technical LeadStaffany Aug 2019 - Dec 2020SingaporeReported to the CTO & managed product engineering squads. Performing 1:1’s, diagnosing bottlenecks, offering mentorship to improve productivity of the engineering team.- Optimised existing infrastructure using monitoring tools to reduce monthly AWS bill by 50%+ while simultaneously improving 99 percentile latency from 548ms to 231ms- Writing Kotlin and Swift native extensions for React Native to detect BSSID of connected Wifi networks for verification of user’s claimed location, increasing user trust and product adoption by 25% Month-Over-Month. -
Founding EngineerPoint Digital Finance Sep 2016 - Mar 2019Palo AltoEngineer Hire #2 of a16z-backed company.- Autonomously worked on high leverage initiatives as one of the core engineers, pushing KPIs towards Series A (US$9.1M) and Series B (US$22M) raises- Product Engineering: implement high impact customer facing features and practiced continuous deployment and agile development. Mean time to feature deployment was 5 days- DevOps: instrumentation and performance monitoring to reduce long-tail latency and improve uptime & rapidly deploy bug fixes -
Senior Fullstack Software EngineerEverlane Jul 2014 - Jul 2016San FranciscoBuilt an in-house eCommerce + ERP system with Ruby on Rails and React with a fantastic team.Was instrumental in a handful of high-impact projects (from a revenue perspective, and also application performance perspective). Did too many fun things to sum up in 3 sentences! -
Front End Software EngineerQuantcast Jun 2012 - Jul 2014San FranciscoEngineered a business critical client-facing AngularJS dashboard app for our Advertise clients, creating reusable modules and integrating with Play backend.Spear headed front-end architecture and introduced front-end best practices, including using Zurb Foundation for responsive websites and SCSS stylesheet management. -
Web DeveloperMadrenegade Sep 2009 - May 2011Vancouver, Canada AreaBuilt complete website solution using suitable platforms, including Django, Drupal and Wordpress.Dynamic elements using jQuery. Styled using SCSS.Configured servers for deployment & production.
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Web Designer & Developer, InternshipBlackberry May 2010 - Aug 2010Waterloo, OntarioWorked with the BlackBerry Securities department to revamp Intranet and Extranet portals, generated multi-use graphics and created an UI for an internal application.4 Month co-op term at RIM's Waterloo Campus.
Peter Gao Education Details
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B+ (3.43 Cgpa)
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