Allica Bank is a UK challenger bank dedicated to empowering small businesses with flexible, data-driven lending solutions. As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the lending team, I partner closely with underwriters, product owners, and UX designers to build an internal underwriting tool that streamlines decision-making, surfaces actionable insights, and accelerates loan approvals.

• Developed key lending workflows, enabling underwriters and operations staff to view and capture customer, KYC, and security details, and seamlessly advance applications through each stage.
• Built a dynamic form builder to add security and loan-related assets based on configurable JSON.
• Implemented end-to-end tests with Cypress and unit tests with Jest, achieving over 90% frontend coverage and ensuring stability across releases.
• Led cross-functional discovery sessions, translating underwriter pain points into wireframes and interactive prototypes.
• Mentored junior engineers and championed best practices—introducing linting rules, CI/CD pipelines, and regular design-system syncs to maintain quality at scale.

Bitfount is a federated AI and data science platform that enables organizations to accelerate AI initiatives without sharing sensitive data. Through web and desktop apps, it connects data owners, algorithm developers, and problem solvers to train and evaluate models on distributed datasets—ensuring zero-trust controls, end-to-end encryption, and compliance with GDPR and HIPAA.

• Shaped & shipped user-centric features in Next.js and TypeScript, guided by direct feedback from clinicians and data scientists.
• Built a scalable component library on MUI 5, reducing dev friction and time-to-prototype by 30%.
• Designed cross-platform workflows in Tauri, enabling seamless handoff between browser and desktop for no-code model orchestration.
• Collaborated with product and design teams on advanced data visualizations and AI workflows.
• Advocated engineering best practices to uplift code quality, standards, and team culture.
• Enhanced test reliability by refactoring modules into reusable patterns and rolling out Playwright-driven E2E suites.

A major UK retailer engaged via Valtech (formerly Kin & Carta) to unify and elevate the checkout experience across all marketplace apps. I partnered with the Checkout squad to integrate third-party retail fulfilment, real-time delivery updates, and A/B testing—delivering a seamless, consistent flow for customers in every region.

• Developed the marketplace frontend to enable customers to order and receive items from partnered retailers.
• Built real-time delivery tracking features for the super-fast same-day delivery service, improving customer visibility and satisfaction.
• Refactored and documented the codebase into reusable React and Next.js components, boosting development velocity and maintainability.
• Migrated Node.js from v14 to v16, streamlining build processes and enhancing developer experience.
• Integrated Optimizely and GraphQL to power feature flags and efficient data fetching for personalized checkout flows.
• Line-managed and mentored two mid-level engineers, fostering their growth and adoption of best practices.

Proofpoint delivers an AI-driven email security platform that predicts and eliminates human-error threats—like data exfiltration, accidental loss, and phishing—outperforming major business email providers.

• Crafted a clean, minimal dashboard that elevated the user experience and boosted sales conversion rates.
• Introduced atomic web design principles, focusing on accessibility, usability, and testability to ensure consistent UI across the portal.
• Collaborated on a company-wide design system, working with product designers to build and publish a shared component library.
• Owned the third-party integrations module, architecting configurable connections to external security services.
• Eliminated legacy inconsistencies by replacing outdated components with new, tested ones from our component library.

Coda Payments’ Codashop.com provides alternate payment channels for digital content monetisation in emerging markets—enabling carrier billing, bank transfers, e-wallets, vouchers, and cash payments at retail outlets where bank cards aren’t common.

• Owned the migration of the Codashop.com frontend from a legacy JSP stack to Vue.js, modernizing architecture and developer workflows.
• Implemented offline capabilities, pre-rendering, and aggressive caching to drastically reduce page load times.
• Shipped wallet, customer engagement, and authentication features to streamline user journeys and boost conversion.
• Led and mentored the frontend engineering team, establishing coding standards, peer reviews, and best practices.
• Enhanced the content management system with new tools and workflows, improving marketing and support efficiency.

SkoolNet is a comprehensive content management system and React Native app designed for NTUC First Campus. The web portal centralizes management of multiple static school websites, while the mobile app fosters parent-teacher engagement by delivering real-time updates on student activities, attendance, and transportation.

• Built a React/TypeScript CMS, reducing content-publishing turnaround by enabling non-technical staff to manage multiple sites from a single control panel.
• Developed React Native screens for the SN Staff app on iOS and Android, enhancing parent-teacher communication features.
• Architected a Gatsby-based static site platform, automating build and deployment workflows for school websites.
• Migrated four school sites from static HTML to Gatsby, driving measurable improvements in UX and SEO.

SanDisk Wings Suite is an internal web-based automation platform that empowers firmware engineers to configure tests, decode results, manage device properties, and perform failure analysis in the cloud—replacing cumbersome command-line workflows and dramatically accelerating validation.

• Automated device testing workflows, saving up to 10,000 man-hours per day.
• Led and mentored the frontend team in designing and building the automation platform.
• Developed a dynamic form generator in React to onboard new devices in hours instead of days.
• Engineered high-performance components with lazy-loading and optimistic UI updates.
• Coordinated technical planning by breaking down features into actionable tasks.
• Mentored two junior engineers, fostering their growth in frontend best practices.

XInsure

XInsure is a modular SaaS platform for insurers, brokers, and reinsurers, deployable on-premises or in the cloud—streamlining policy management, underwriting, and claims processing across distributed teams.

• Built reusable React/Redux components and services to handle policy CRUD operations.
• Developed and documented backend API endpoints with Node.js and Express.
• Wrote comprehensive unit tests using Jest to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Implemented UX enhancements and polished interactive elements to improve user workflows.

Installment billing portal

Engaged to deliver an installment billing portal enabling AIG customers to pay home and motor insurance premiums in interest-free monthly EMIs, driving affordability and retention.

• Architected and built Angular components and services to consume and display EMI payment plans.
• Developed RESTful APIs in Node.js/Express to manage payments and customer data in MySQL.
• Configured Jenkins pipelines for continuous integration and seamless deployments.
• Enhanced claims request and reporting features, improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction.