About

Singapore-based cloud architect and engineering leader with 17+ years building enterprise systems that scale and stay operational when things go wrong. My work spans high-availability platforms, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture in mission-critical environments. These days I build production AI agent infrastructure and open-source tooling, including pdf-mcp, an MCP server that has passed 28,000 PyPI downloads since its January 2026 launch.

In production systems, silence is not neutral. It's dangerous.

What I write about

1. 01 Cloud Architecture Resilient, scalable systems on AWS. Multi-region strategies, failure modes, and cost discipline.
2. 02 AI Engineering Building with GenAI and agentic AI — retrieval, MCP servers, evals, and making LLMs behave in production.
3. 03 Distributed Systems Patterns for reliable software at scale. Consistency, consensus, and the trade-offs you don't notice until you do.
4. 04 Engineering Leadership Building and leading technical teams — hiring, mentoring, and the parts of the job that aren't in the code.

Open source

1. 01 pdf-mcp MCP server for reading large PDFs without hitting context limits. Chunked reading, hybrid search, OCR, and SQLite caching. GitHub · PyPI
2. 02 blueclaw Observable AI agent runtime with structured tracing, regression testing, and trace replay. Model-agnostic. Built on Strands Agents SDK. GitHub · PyPI
3. 03 redmine-mcp-server Production-ready MCP server for Redmine. Connects AI agents to project management with security, pagination, and enterprise features. GitHub · PyPI

Certifications

1. 01 AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional 2026 · Credly
2. 02 AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate 2024 · Credly

Experience

• 2022
  Deputy R&D Director, GDC Technology

  Directing architecture of enterprise digital cinema software sustaining GDC's industry leadership. Owns AWS serverless platforms supporting mission-critical operations — 50% scalability improvement, 40% reduction in operational overhead. Leading 10+ engineers across two regions.
• 2013
  Senior R&D Manager, GDC Technology

  Built and scaled cross-functional engineering teams through rapid growth. Led delivery of Cinema Automation 2.0, the second-generation Theatre Management System modernizing cinema operations globally. Introduced Git-Flow and Kanban, cutting development cycles by 30%.
• 2007
  Senior R&D Engineer, GDC Technology

  Designed and delivered the first-generation Theatre Management System deployed across large cineplex environments. Built electronic cinema playback systems with HDCP security compliance and high-availability requirements.
• 2006
  Software Engineer, Cyberlink

  Started career building multimedia software. BSc Computer Science, National Taiwan University.

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