Engineering and operations

I help teams find where work stalls.

I lead TikTok’s Cost and Performance team in Singapore and also serve as Singapore Site Leader for Server Architecture.

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Selected work

Making an inherited monitoring platform useful

In my previous TikTok operations remit, I took over an existing monitoring platform, repositioned it, and redesigned its user flows. Adoption grew to 33 engineering teams across TikTok within a year.

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Community support · AI-generated conceptual illustration, not a project photograph

Project Stable Staples

During COVID, I co-founded Project Stable Staples to get essentials to families in rental blocks while longer-term help caught up. Volunteers and partners made that possible through fundraising, logistics, and a fast-built donation portal.

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Recent essays

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Delete Yesterday's AI Scaffolding

As models improve, the next AI productivity gain may come from removing yesterday's prompts, plugins, and orchestration while keeping the controls that protect judgment.

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How I Architected My OpenClaw Instance

The open-source OpenClaw runtime gives me the substrate. The real work was designing the operating layer on top: routing, memory, capabilities, state, lanes, and context discipline.

In my operations work, I look at what people repeatedly review, what information they need to decide, and whether a tool actually removes work or just moves it. Those details matter more than a list of technologies.

Separately, I co-founded Project Stable Staples during COVID. With BLESS as a partner, we organized a volunteer response that raised over SGD 160,000, supported more than 600 households, launched a donation portal in under two days, and operated with zero expense ratio. Building the portal mattered, but so did fundraising, communications and volunteer logistics. Families needed practical help while longer-term support caught up.

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