Led a 15-person development team at PingAn Insurance, a team of 3 at BTMU, and now Engineering Lead owning a full ERP accounting module — with co-founder experience across two companies in between.
generating a tailored summary…Engineering Lead owning the full accounting module of a SaaS ERP for North American beverage distributors — spanning AP/AR, GL, bank reconciliation, tax compliance, and integrations — from technical design through production release.
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Co-founded a funded InsurTech startup in Shanghai with a team of 6, building a crowd-share motor insurance platform in collaboration with some of China's largest insurance underwriters. Exited in early 2024 after the COVID-19 pandemic made sustained Sydney–Shanghai travel impossible for three years, ultimately preventing the hands-on co-founder involvement the business needed.
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Co-founded Safemore, a consumer electronics company that designed, manufactured, and marketed an innovative vertical power outlet with integrated USB charging ports — built real revenue across Australian and UK retail markets, with genuine P&L ownership and a full supply chain from factory to shelf.
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Seven-year tenure delivering mission-critical financial systems — from AML compliance reporting to FX straight-through processing — culminating in a project lead role owning delivery across multiple business units.
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Career-opening role at one of China's largest insurance groups — leading teams building the core insurance platforms that underpinned the business.
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Part of the winning team at the internal company-wide AI Hackathon (November 2025).
Contributed to the cross-functional team that built and demoed an AI innovation project rated highest across the company. The win validated the Cowork AI direction and accelerated internal buy-in for LLM integration into the ERP's core accounting workflows.
Maintained 95%+ done-rate across 119 Jira issues including 43 high/highest-priority items.
Completed 119 issues over two years spanning AI features, open-banking integration, third-party finance platform connectors, AP/AR improvements, GL work, TTB excise tax compliance, and multi-state tax reporting — with zero critical regressions on the owned module. Delivery included 45 feature requests, 32 bugs, 23 subtasks, and 18 infrastructure maintenance items.
119 issues completed · 43 high/highest-priority · 95%+ done-rate
Grew the team and led business development alongside full technical and product ownership.
Wore every hat a co-founder wears: engineering manager, architect, product owner, and business development lead simultaneously. Cultivated partnerships with insurance providers, technology firms, and industry stakeholders. Built and managed the engineering team, implemented risk management protocols, and ensured regulatory compliance across the insurance domain — the kind of breadth that only comes from building something you personally own.
Led team of three to build Electronic Payment Services (EPS) for corporate clients, completing the bank's online product suite.
Initiated and led the Electronic Payment Services project for corporate banking clients, leading a team of three engineers. The service completed the bank's online product offerings and significantly improved its competitiveness in the corporate payments market.
Led a team of 15 to build the Property & Casualty Application System and General Reinsurance System.
Oversaw development of PingAn's Property & Casualty Application System and General Reinsurance System, covering system architecture design, hardware contract negotiation, budgeting, project management, and outsourcing. The system ran on HP-UX, Digital-Unix, Oracle, and MS Windows.
Led 15-person development team
Led a team of 6 building General Insurance System V1.0, quota share reinsurance automation, and Accounting System.
Supervised a team of six programmers delivering General Insurance System V1.0, quota share reinsurance automation, and an Accounting System. Also personally contributed to development of the Underwriting System, Motor Insurance Claim System, and Marine Cargo System using RPG400, CL, DB2, and Foxpro.
Led 6-person engineering team
When Encompass ran its internal AI hackathon in November 2025, the team I was part of took a deliberate approach: build something a controller would look at and say 'I'd use this on Monday,' not just the most impressive-looking demo. That meant the AI Accounting Agent had to create records in a reviewable state, not auto-post them — which sounds like a limitation but is actually the feature. I contributed by implementing key APIs in the agent integration layer. We won, and the more important outcome was that the alpha rollout had unusually fast adoption because finance users trusted it from day one.
In the early 2000s at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, there was no in-house CRM. Client exposure data lived in spreadsheets and individual relationships. I proposed and built the Data Pooling System from concept through full operation — without a PM, without a design document, just a clear understanding of what the Corporate Credit Department actually needed to do their jobs. It became part of core operations. Years later that project is the clearest example I have of what it means to understand a business problem deeply enough to build the right thing without being told what to build.
Outside of work I've coached a high school FIRST FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) team — and the team won the Australian championship two years in a row. FRC is intense: six weeks to design, build, and program a robot from scratch, then compete. The coaching challenge isn't just technical — it's helping teenagers under pressure make fast decisions with incomplete information, divide work across mechanical, electrical, and software sub-teams, and iterate on a physical system when there are no rollbacks. What I brought from professional engineering: systems thinking, the discipline of breaking a hard problem into testable pieces, and the habit of asking 'what's the most important thing to prove first?' What coaching gave back: a renewed appreciation for how much you can teach by asking the right question instead of giving the answer, and the patience that comes from watching someone figure something out for themselves. Two back-to-back championships suggests the approach worked.
The bank's first in-house CRM and an intranet portal that became the primary platform for data sharing across the Sydney office — plus Electronic Payment Services for corporate clients.