02 / ABOUT

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FIG. 01 — Photograph by a friend, somewhere in Penang, 2025.

“I've been writing software since I was thirteen. I haven't run out of curiosity yet.”

I grew up in Kuala Lumpur, taught myself to code on a borrowed Dell with a cracked screen, and turned that into a six-year career across two acquired startups and a handful of side projects I'm still proud of.

Today I work as a senior engineer at Lumen Labs, where I lead the runtime team. Outside of that I write a quiet engineering newsletter, maintain a small open-source CLI used at a few companies you've heard of, and occasionally take on a thoughtful client.

I care about the boring parts: keystroke latency, p99 graphs, the words on the empty-state screen. I think the future of software is calmer, smaller, and closer to the metal — and I'd like to help build it.

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Toolkit,
roughly.

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TypeScript
Rust
Python
Go
BACKEND
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Redis
ClickHouse
FRONTEND
React
Svelte
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CSS the long way
INFRA
AWS
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Docker
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DESIGN
Figma
Linear
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