Work Experience

Tech Co-Founder

June 2024 – Present
D2CFoodTechAISaaS
  • Sole engineer leading all products, services, AI systems & infrastructure.
  • Scaled a multi-brand D2C food delivery and subscription system to $390k ARR with 82% customer retention by owning the architecture, backend, frontend, and infrastructure.
  • Engineered the core customer app features, including subscriptions, meal tracking, food customisation, and ad-hoc ordering for a user base of 500 daily active users.
  • Architected and implemented the delivery planner and routing engine, optimising logistics and supporting complex subscription flows (skips, pauses, recurring payments).
  • Developed a RAG-based WhatsApp support agent (LangChain) to automate user queries, resulting in a 95% reduction in manual support load.
  • Engineered an AI-assisted menu planner leveraging embeddings and vector search (pgvector) to handle food customisation at scale, leading to a 25% increase in meal personalisation adoption.
  • Implemented robust background jobs and event-driven workflows using BullMQ for critical systems (order processing, inventory updates), ensuring >99.9% uptime.
  • Automated daily, weekly, and monthly reporting pipelines for inventory and unit economics, saving operations 10+ hours per week.
Node.jsReactReact NativePostgreSQLpgvectorRedisAWSDocker SwarmBullMQLangChainLLM APIs

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2021 – May 2024
Upraised (acquired by Kello)
EdTechAI
  • Designed and launched the core interview prep platform with scheduling flows and integrated Dyte/Zoom; incorporated AI evaluations to generate feedback on verbal and non-verbal cues.
  • Developed a secure online testing platform, incorporating real-time system checks and fraud detection, resulting in high exam integrity across 500k concurrent users.
  • Contributed to the full-stack development of the learners' dashboard, streamlining access to coaching, content, and payment portals, improving feature engagement by 46%.
  • Designed a recruitment CRM that automated the placement lifecycle, portfolio creation, and opportunity pipelines, improving time-to-placement by 70%.
PythonDjangoCeleryGolangReactReduxNext.jsLLM AgentsPostgreSQLRedisAWSWebRTCKubernetes

Software Engineer

Sep 2018 – Feb 2021
LoginRadius / Social9
CIAMSaaS
  • Engineered a multi-cloud distributed Data Service Layer (DSL) for event sourcing and access control, designed to support scaling to over a billion user identities.
  • Migrated the legacy admin console from Angular to React, achieving a 3x performance improvement for user operations and a 2x faster Software Development Life Cycle.
  • Decoupled large monolithic services into a microservices architecture, reducing the average deployment time by 80% and improving system maintainability.
  • Optimised a Node.js data export service, increasing throughput to process millions of records with a 40% reduction in execution time using a cluster running architecture.
Node.jsGolangReactMongoDBRedisAWSKafkaMicroservicesKubernetesDocker

Associate Trainee

August 2017 – August 2018
Kony, Inc. (acquired by Temenos)
E-Commerce
  • Project Tooling: Developed project tooling that streamlined the process of automatically importing dependencies and implementing essential build changes in XCode. This innovation significantly reduced build times for iOS applications, enhancing development efficiency.
  • Designed and implemented advanced features within mobile applications like authentication, theming, in-app downloads and saved collections.Leveraging in -memory databases and seamless post- sync with device storage, these enhancements led to a remarkable 25 % boost in app performance.
  • Championed the adoption of component development best practices, resulting in a nearly 40 % reduction in development time for future projects.This proactive approach paved the way for faster and more efficient development cycles.
  • Led the development of a mobile app for Amway Korea, which included features such as product catalog, offline demo, shopping cart, and checkout.
Kony Platform(omni-platform mobile apps)JavaSwiftXCodeiOSAndroid