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.