Work
Professional work
A record of shipped work, not a pitch. The essays on this site draw on this experience; this page is where the receipts live.
Roles
- Mandate
- Translate liquidity flows (tokens, RWAs, protocols) and contract risk into simplified DeFi products across Base, Arbitrum, and Robinhood Chain.
- Set product strategy and $MANDATE tokenomics from ecosystem research, financial modelling and revenue analysis, judging whether a build is natively competitive or a workaround.
- Architect Mandate's execution layer, moving from agent-led to deterministic execution with the agent as an intelligence layer that strengthens strategy reliability.
- Build the strategy knowledge base, a RAG pipeline and strategy templates grounded in real-time market liquidity data.
- Factor.fi
- Defined Factor's integration strategy, determining which DeFi protocols to onboard and how they combine into coherent financial products that support the asset management marketplace.
- Translated financial strategy into technical build specifications, partnering directly with engineering to convert contract-level complexity into simplified DeFi flows for end users, and vice versa.
- Operated 24 Factor vault strategies on Arbitrum and Base, led a four-person team on marketing strategy, and owned Factor Docs, the primary reference for developers and users.
- Kyber Network
- Owner of KyberSwap Docs and the KyberSwap Academy, writing across all technical levels from new-user guides to protocol research and API specs.
- Grew organic search traffic to the Docs and Blog by producing content that ranked in the top 10 for DeFi-specific search terms.
- Contributed to all core UX flows and technically validated products, using banking-honed financial judgment to translate protocol mechanics into plain language for marketing.
- Reduced business overhead by building internal knowledge management tooling and dashboards that streamlined technical knowledge transfer across teams.
- Presented KyberAI at Token2049.
- DBS Bank
- Technical design and consulting for the Capital Markets team on the DBS Digital Exchange application, covering client onboarding and the listing of security tokens.
- Product management for the Climate Impact X operations console, live and used by CIX to manage the purchasing and claiming of carbon credits, supporting settlement and registrar services.
- Ran workshops and business analysis with stakeholders and carried the product through testing to final delivery.
- IBM
- Delivered hybrid cloud application solutions built on Hyperledger Fabric and IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, working with clients on end-to-end blockchain architecture.
- Collaborated across teams on microservice-based software architecture to support clients' cloud migration.
- JLL
- Product management and systems design for enterprise software tools, including ESRI-based network planning, M&A dashboards and scorecards, a mobile lease explorer, and an internal tracker of client portfolios across ASEAN.
- Consolidated client requirements and technical feasibility across UX/UI design, data governance, and systems design.
- Completed rotations with the Integrated Facilities Management Solutions Development and Corporate Solutions Consulting Teams, including portfolio lease strategy for the APAC division of a global IT company and workplace utilisation studies in Malaysia.
Official contributions
- Ethereum.org Shipped 25 merged pull requests to the official Ethereum.org repository over 8 months (Dec 2022 to Aug 2023), including a restructure of the dapp discovery page adding Metaverse, Social, and DeFi categories with 20+ new dapps, and a site-wide cleanup of EthHub references across a dozen-plus docs pages after EthHub's deprecation. Further contributions are here.
- Bancor3 A tokenomics explainer featured as a canonical resource on Bancor's official docs, an 8-part code guide walking through the trading contracts function-by-function via UML diagrams, and breakdowns of the omnipool redesign, single-sided staking mechanics, and the governance voting premium created by the dual-token BNT/vBNT model.
Freelance Work
- Blockchain Training Smartcademy, facilitating a multi-day professional course covering blockchain and cryptocurrency concepts.
- Documentation Mirai Labs (Guildtech, Shards), Harmonix, XOX Labs.
- Commissioned Articles RockX Babylon BTC Staking
Media
- MONEY FM 89.3
Societal impact of blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
- CNA938 Money Mind
Cryptocurrencies as a form of investment.
- The Straits Times
Singapore's cryptocurrency scene.
- e27
Blockchain technology beyond cryptocurrency and NFTs.
- gradsingapore
Blockchain, cryptocurrency, and fintech advice for new graduates.
- Tech Trade Asia
Blockchain concepts in the business context.
Writing elsewhere
- Medium Analysis and technical guides are also duplicated to Medium, with this site set as the canonical source. More complex pieces, like the interactive work under Prying, remain here only.
Education
- University College London Awarded the Departmental Prize 2013–14 for the highest-achieving first-year student in the Bartlett School of Planning BSc programmes.
- Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)