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Head of AI & Data @ RegASK · Singapore

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I build production AI systems for a domain where being wrong is expensive — and I build the teams and habits that keep shipping them.

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01 / PROFILE

From senior engineer to owning AI and data across the company in under three years. I make teams faster — moving a ~50-person company's daily work onto AI in three months, and shipping AI products to global markets. Fourteen years of engineering across regulatory intelligence, decentralised identity, fintech and healthcare.

14+
years of engineering — junior dev to Head of AI & Data
7
companies founded, led or shipped at — across four industries
3
months to move a ~50-person company's daily work onto AI
5
teams transformed — customer success, regulatory experts, sales, engineering, marketing
~80%
of engineering code AI-written, after upskilling the whole team
15K
monthly users on a product designed, built and shipped solo

02 / JOURNEY

Junior dev → founder →
Head of AI & Data

2012 — NOW · EACH CHAPTER SCROLLS SIDEWAYS ↓

01

TNO Systems

Junior Developer

2012–2013

Origin story

First engineering role

Front-end features for an enterprise ERP. Translated client business requirements into technical specs and ran onboarding training for client users.

02

Pollask

Founder & CTO

2013–2015

Founder mode

Self-taught, shipped everything

Taught myself PHP, native Android and iOS. Designed, built and deployed the whole product on AWS — 15,000 monthly active users at peak.

Hustle

Analytics & angels

Ran usage analytics to steer the feature roadmap, and pitched multiple angel investors at Tech in Asia Speed Dating.

03

TBop (Netrust)

Full Stack Developer

2015–2019

Modernisation

Legacy CRM → microservices

Led three engineers revamping a legacy Java CRM for micro-finance into a customisable, scalable NodeJS microservice with improved UI/UX.

Offline-first

Built for no connectivity

Rebuilt the mobile app (Ionic / Angular) with offline support for rural areas with no connectivity — vastly better performance and UX.

Foresight

Credit scoring + blockchain R&D

Credit-scoring analytics predicting default rates so micro-finance companies could forecast cash flow. Ran R&D on blockchain for the industry.

04

Validus Capital

Data Engineer

2019–2020

Trust & safety

Fraud detection framework

Python framework running the in-house fraud detection algorithm over multi-source data, plus a microservice validating and landing data in the lake.

Analytics

Knowing the customer

Designed metrics segmenting key customer profiles and funnels — surfacing optimisation opportunities across the business.

Scale

Mobile + backend revamp

Co-led the team revamping the cross-platform app and NodeJS microservices for scale and modularity; integrated the backend with Salesforce.

05

Health Promotion Board (via Activate Interactive)

Application Consultant

2020–2021

National scale

Covid infrastructure for Singapore

Scalable TypeScript microservices for national Covid test scheduling and vaccination — sharing sensitive health information safely across institutes.

06

Affinidi

Senior Full Stack → Engineering Lead

2021–2023

Medical-grade SaaS

Data sharing on verifiable credentials

Led architecture and delivery of a multi-tenant SaaS for medical data sharing on W3C Verifiable Credentials and HL7 FHIR — extended with a client mobile app.

Security

A wallet for health data

Architected a secure digital wallet for W3C medical credentials, with a security protocol aligned to Singapore's medical data-handling standards.

Cross-border

Covid verification, per government

A widget verifying Covid certificates against country rules — grown into a serverless SaaS with per-government workflows, async OCR on Lambda + EventBridge.

Leadership

Libraries and teams

Created the TypeScript encryption library used company-wide, and led both in-house and offshore engineering teams across these deliveries.

07

RegASK

Senior SWE → AI Lead → Head of AI & Data

2023–NOW

Public launch

AI label review, launched globally

Led development of RegASK's AI-assisted label review — cutting reviews from weeks of manual checks to under 10 minutes at ~95% accuracy across 16 markets.

Stepping up

Inherited the flagship platform

Took ownership of RegGenius after the Head of AI departed — stabilised delivery, then modernised it into an enterprise-grade real-time AI platform.

Transformation

AI-native in three months

Pitched and led the company-wide transformation — full Claude adoption and automated workflows across all five business functions.

Governance

Evals gate every release

Established production AI governance — release gates for accuracy, consistency, expert agreement, latency, cost and retrieval quality.

Data foundation

One vocabulary, 60 regions

Unified the enterprise data foundation — taxonomy standardisation across millions of documents, unlocking cross-product intelligence.

Leadership

Building the AI organisation

Lead 4 AI engineers, convert the wider org to AI-native practices, own the AI budget, and partner with executives on strategy and capability building.

03 / IMPACT

Transform the company.
Move the industry.

Pitched and led a company-wide shift to working with AI every day — five teams, three months, fifty people.

Individual client reports generated in five minutes, down from three to five days.

Due-diligence research in minutes instead of days, at 95% accuracy.

Prospecting-to-outreach automation surfacing account insights in minutes that manual research would have missed entirely.

Automated bug fixes, automated release notes, and AI-generated QA test suites — days saved per suite.

On-brand content drafting at pace, plus a branding plugin letting anyone generate company-branded documents on demand.

Enabled non-engineers to build their own internal web apps, moving cross-team collaboration off spreadsheets.

FLAGSHIP · PUBLICLY LAUNCHED

AI-assisted label review, live across global markets

Checks product labels against F&B regulations across 16 markets — plus cosmetics in Taiwan. Requirements gathered from regulatory experts, results validated against them.

DAYS–WEEKS → <10 min @ 95% accuracy
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REGGENIUS

Stabilised, then modernised the flagship

Took ownership of RegGenius after the previous Head of AI departed — stabilised delivery while defining its long-term direction, then modernised it into a scalable, enterprise-grade AI platform: real-time knowledge ingestion, optimised RAG, MCP services and production guardrails.

GOVERNANCE

Nothing ships without evidence

Established the company's production AI governance and evaluation framework — release gates covering accuracy, consistency, expert agreement, latency, cost and retrieval quality — built on strategic relationships with regulatory experts, so enterprise customers can trust what ships.

Before AI — trust infrastructure for healthcare and travel.

AFFINIDI · VERIFIABLE CREDENTIALS

Medical data sharing, rebuilt on trust

Led architecture and delivery of a multi-tenant SaaS for medical data sharing built on W3C Verifiable Credentials and HL7 FHIR — with a secure digital wallet aligned to Singapore's medical data-handling standards. Led in-house and offshore teams to ship it.

AFFINIDI · COVID-CERT SAAS

Covid verification, configurable per government

A website widget verifying Covid certificates against departure and arrival rules — grown into a serverless SaaS with per-government customised workflows, embeddable anywhere, with asynchronous OCR verification. Plus the TypeScript encryption library adopted company-wide.

04 / ARSENAL

The stack.

AI & ML

ClaudeAzure OpenAIGemini Voyage AIRAGMCP Agentic workflowsLangChain LLM evalsVector DBs Azure AI FoundryVertex AI

Data

Data pipelinesTaxonomy & harmonisation PostgreSQLMongoDBCosmosDB DynamoDBAnalytics

Backend

PythonFastAPITypeScript NestJSKafkaEvent-driven MicroservicesC#

Frontend

ReactJSNext.jsAngular VueJSReact NativeFlutter

Cloud & Platform

AzureAWSKubernetes DockerServerlessCI/CD IaC

Leadership

AI transformationTeam building Technical strategyMentoring Budget ownershipCross-functional

05 / CONTACT

LET'S BUILD
SOMETHING
INTELLIGENT.

Singapore