Technical Architect and former CTO with 15+ years leading engineering teams and partnering with
business leaders across Asia. I specialise in modernising legacy ecosystems,
designing cloud-native, event-driven architectures, and aligning technology
decisions with commercial priorities, regulatory constraints and operational
realities.
I operate at the intersection of business strategy and technical execution,
translating complex requirements into scalable systems, shaping product direction, and enabling
organisations to deliver faster with lower risk. Known for
cross-functional influence, I help business, product and engineering teams
converge on clear decisions, predictable delivery and measurable outcomes.
Most recently I have focused on AI-enabled decisioning: architecting an
AI-assisted underwriting solution, integrating an AI underwriting decision engine with a
chatbot, and contributing to the AI security and governance of these
initiatives.
Core Capabilities
AI & Intelligent Systems
AI security & governance: defining the perimeter of where AI can be
applied (what it can and cannot do) and establishing technical and functional guardrails
for AI-assisted decisioning
AI/LLM integration into business-critical workflows (AWS Bedrock, Claude)
AI-assisted underwriting decisioning, from solution architecture to integration
Conversational AI: connecting AI decision engines with chatbot interfaces
Bringing emerging AI capabilities into existing enterprise systems
Architecture & Technology Strategy
Modern software architecture: microservices, event-driven, CQRS, Event Sourcing, DDD
Legacy-to-modern migration aligned with business priorities
Cloud-native design on AWS with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
API ecosystems, distributed systems and domain modelling
Business & Cross-Functional Leadership
Partner with business, product and operations to shape strategy and roadmap
Translate commercial constraints into architecture decisions and delivery plans
Structured trade-off analysis and clear technical communication
Drive stakeholder alignment in regulated, global environments
Engineering Leadership & Delivery
Agile, Lean and DevOps culture; continuous delivery and automation
Team building, hiring frameworks and coaching high-performance teams
Developer experience optimisation and secure-by-design practices
Delivery predictability and reduced operational friction
Professional Experience
Technical Architect, RGA Reinsurance Group of America
Hong Kong · 2022 – Present
Global leader in life and health reinsurance.
Partnered with business leaders to define a unified architecture strategy,
aligning modernisation with regulatory and commercial priorities.
Architected an AI-assisted underwriting solution and integrated the AI
underwriting decision engine with a conversational chatbot, bringing AI-driven decisioning
into the underwriting workflow and contributing to AI governance and security
for these initiatives.
Led the transition of a legacy system to cloud-native, event-sourced
microservices, improving resilience and auditability while reducing operational
overhead.
Established communication frameworks across engineering, product, underwriting and
operations, reducing decision latency and improving delivery predictability.
Designed a structured hiring and evaluation process for on-shore and
off-shore teams, reducing time-to-hire and improving retention.
Embedded security-first, compliance-aligned design into mission-critical
architecture decisions.