01 Acefone · Dec 2023 — present

Asia's first WhatsApp IVR, inside one agent inbox

Acefone was moving off a legacy PHP monolith onto MERN microservices. I took the greenfield work and built Interaction Hub — one inbox where an agent handles voice, WhatsApp messaging and WhatsApp Calls without switching tools.

Asia-1st
WhatsApp IVR integration
3
channels one inbox
3
engineers mentored
NestJSNext.jsTypeScriptKafkaRedisSocket.io
02 TRIBE · Aug 2021 — Sep 2023

Zero to 100,000 users as a founding engineer

Founding team member at a stock advisory platform. I built the product from nothing, led three developers, and owned the real-time market data pipeline — then kept shipping unpaid for two months when regulation put the funding at risk.

100K+
users scaled to
10K+
Chrome extension installs
70%
fewer bugs after CI
ReactExpressRedisBullMQAWS SQSSocket.io
03 EMPRO Real Estate · Jun 2023 — Dec 2023

A Canadian property platform, built solo

Six months, one engineer, a full platform for the Canadian market — role-based access control, real-time messaging between buyers and agents, and an architecture chosen so a single person could keep it running after handover.

99.9%
uptime achieved
6 mo
brief to launch
1
engineer
Node.jsMongoDBSocket.ioDigitalOceanRBAC
04 PostEngage.ai · 2024 — present

WhatsApp automation, run by one person

WhatsApp and Instagram automation for businesses. Product, infrastructure, billing, deliverability and support — all mine. The constraint was never scale; it was that every system had to be boring enough for one person to operate at 2am.

1
engineer
24/7
unattended runtime
0
ops headcount
Node.jsNext.jsPostgresBullMQMeta APIsStripe

also shipped

freelance & contract · 4 countries

Freshmade

Belgium

Food & catering platform — SSR/SSG frontend, Storyblok CMS, SendGrid transactional email.

Next.js

Casa Studios

France

Creative agency site — performant Next.js frontend with CMS-driven content for a non-technical team.

Tailwind

Vinci Club

Gym

SEO-optimised site with class schedules and trainer profiles, accessible by default.

Headless UI

VBM Rental

Car rental

Booking frontend on Firebase — auth, Firestore, real-time notifications, third-party vehicle APIs.

Firebase

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