Profile
AI & data leader, Singapore
AI-first strategy, large-scale data platforms and governance — mostly across financial services, telco and consumer tech.
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- 23+
- years in technology
- 15+
- transformation programs
- $20M
- annual budget managed
- 50+
- person team led
- Director — Artificial Intelligence Jan 2025 — present
- Leading Keppel's enterprise-wide AI platform from concept to scalable reality
- Architecting a next-generation agentic platform blending grounded, symbolic and generative AI
- Defining long-term AI strategy and the cloud infrastructure to carry it
- Tech Partner 2023 — 2025
- Built and managed the data practice across ASEAN
- AI/ML and Generative AI strategy, including secure client solutions
- Data security and compliance architecture across all client verticals
- Evaluated MLOps, DataOps and ingestion frameworks for efficiency and availability
Senior Principal — Financial Services & Data 2022 — 2023- Client anchor for consulting deliveries across multiple FS accounts
- CIO/CTO-level stakeholder work on design and growth strategy
- APAC/ANZ SME for SaaS implementation and legacy data migration
- Full-lifecycle solution consulting with AWS, Azure and GCP
Program Director 2019 — 2022- Single point of contact for all client engagements
- Operational excellence through data-insight-decisions, automation and API integration
- Hybrid cloud solutions with enterprise security standards and data retention policy
- Product manager for middleware across programs; estimation, SoW, pre-sales
- Enterprise Architect 2014 — 2019
- Enterprise Architect and global dev lead for Collateral IT (Private Bank, Wealth, MIS)
- Led business and regulatory initiatives: MiFID II, Brexit, reforms program
- Designed a Python ML trade-matching engine processing ~1B records daily
- Data segregation framework for entity separation (GDPR, PDPA)
Business Change Manager 2013 — 2014- Settlement & clearing data modeling; new clearing houses (India, Korea)
- LCH and CME feed processing framework; stakeholder prioritization
- Scrum master for sprint ceremonies; proxy product owner for the backlog
Project Development Manager 2010 — 2014- Cross-functional team of 8; agile working group member; reg-reporting lead
- WCF web-service capabilities for the whole platform
- Pioneered BDD/SpecFlow; CI/CD with TeamCity and SonarQube; org-wide SonarLint PO
- Solutions Architect / Technical PM
- GLOSS.net: stakeholder management, CAPEX/OPEX planning
- Real-time settlement & clearing adapters (SWIFT / FIX)
- Set up JIRA, Perforce and TeamCity; data-driven report distribution framework
- Technical Lead
- Barclays fund-of-funds application suite; DataSynapse grid computing
- Equity derivatives / middle-office self-service analytics (SSRS)
- Black-Scholes and Monte-Carlo simulators in Java, .NET and Oracle
- Continuous integration and test-driven development
- L&T InfoTech — Project Lead 2004 — 2005
- SWIFT upgrade project; market interface designer for SWIFT messaging / OTC products
Gateway Technolabs — Sr. Analyst 2002 — 2004- Lead Java / C# / .NET programmer-analyst for legal and finance applications
- Client relationships, stakeholder management, data migration and analytics