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• Explored Linux network programming and wrote a TCP client in Rust.

• Deepened knowledge in Rust and cryptography.

• Founding member of Shopify’s Payments Platform APAC team.

• Championed, designed, and built Shopify Payments’ credit cards import service.

• Worked with internal stakeholders and engineers from a Shopify Plus merchant to execute a successful import of 1 million credit cards for said merchant.

• Designed and implemented Shopify’s China CDN monitoring solution to prevent performance regressions.

• Mentored junior engineers in the company as part of Shopify’s Engineering Mentorship Program.

Carousell is the leading secondhand goods marketplace in Southeast Asia with >10M MAUs.

• Initiated and led a team of 2 engineers to architect and build a performance-first mobile web experience in 6 months, achieving a 3x faster listing page load that increased organic traffic by 63% and conversion rates by 46%. Wrote about our experience in https://medium.com/carousell-insider/how-we-made-carousells-mobile-web-experience-3x-faster-bbb3be93e006.

• Led and completed the migration to replace Carousell’s existing web app with the new performance-first web app and scaled the team from 2 to 14 engineers.

• Engaged business and product stakeholders to balance between performance, completeness of existing product features, and time to market for the new web experience.

• Established and iterated on onboarding, code review, and code ownership processes for all 14 web engineers at Carousell.

• Mentored and initiated regular 1:1s with new hires and interns on the team.

• Designed and implemented a single sign-on service for a seamless login experience across all 9 of Carousell’s marketplaces.

• Designed and implemented an automated, IFTTT-like rules platform to combat fraud and minimize the impact of bad actors on the marketplace.

• Organized Hack&Roll 2017, Singapore's largest student-run hackathon with over 500 participants.

• Designed and conducted an introduction to HTML5 & CSS3 workshop for beginners.