Work & About

Myanmar, 2006. No reliable internet. No Stack Overflow. No YouTube tutorials. Just a 12-year-old, a borrowed programming book, and a compiler that spoke only in cryptic error messages. That taught me to figure things out.

First company was consulting. Selling. Boardrooms. Enterprise clients. Making legacy systems talk to modern consumer products. The code took a backseat. Then it disappeared from the rearview entirely.

Outgrew the consulting company. Couldn't run payroll on spreadsheets. So I built a payroll system. It now operates in 4 countries. Myanmar, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam. 100,000 employees. Millions in payslips processed. Through all of it, I missed coding. Deeply. But the opportunity never came.

Then LLMs arrived. Picked up coding agents. React, React Native, backend, then agents themselves. Now I build AI agents for real work. Financial transactions at Peek. Payroll automation at Better HR. Workflow systems for founders.

I've been the CEO who couldn't build. I've been the engineer who couldn't sell. Now I do both.

Track Record

companies founded

capital raised

$5.5M+

users served

100,000+

countries

Experience

PRJ-001 / Peek ↗Active

Co-Founder, CPTO2024 – now

AI-native expense journal. 16,000+ users in the US. Team of 2 engineers and 1 designer.

— Built React frontend, React Native app, backend, and multi-agent AI system.
— Transaction categorization engine: 1,500+ transactions in <90 seconds, 90%+ accuracy.
— Real-time user profiling delivering spending insights in <30 seconds.
— Reverse-engineered Endowus, Stashaway, and other financial platforms. No official APIs.
— 60%+ bank connection success rate through proprietary system reverse-engineering.
— 500+ user interviews. Shipped fixes the same week.
— 40%+ retention increase using PostHog analytics.

PRJ-002 / Better HR ↗Active

Founder → Board Chair, Fractional CTO2019 – now

Myanmar's first bank-integrated payroll system. 700+ companies. 100,000+ employees across 4 countries.

— Built the AI agent that runs payroll, leave, onboarding. Not a chatbot. A system.
— Scaled to $2M+ monthly payroll volume across Myanmar, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam.
— Partnered with two major Myanmar banks for fully automated payroll-to-bank integration.
— Cut payroll processing to <60 seconds for 1,000 employees via parallel execution.
— Reduced AWS spend by 25% and system downtime by 50% as fractional CTO.
— Raised US$500k in venture funding. Hired a CEO and created a succession program.

PRJ-003 / BluejayClosed

Co-Founder, COO2022 – 2024

Crypto stablecoin P2P crowdfunding platform for small businesses in Southeast Asia.

— Raised US$1M+ in private credit.
— Shipped MVP in 6 months. React SPA on Ethereum public blockchain.
— Built real-time transaction reconciliation with automated settlement logic.
— Designed KYC/AML compliance frameworks for Southeast Asian markets.

PRJ-004 / Nexlabs ↗Semi-acquired

Founder, CEO2013 – 2021

Full-service product studio and incubator. Scaled from 4 to 80+ people (30 engineering, 50+ creative).

— Incubated Better HR, FastForward, and Hush as internal SaaS products.
— Enterprise clients: Yoma Strategic Holdings, Prudential, Nestlé, Samsung.
— Engineers I mentored went on to Grab, Dell, Apple, and Atlassian.
— Spun off the creative agency as a separate business.
— Engineering unit acquired by SGX-listed Yoma Strategic Holdings in 2021.

Recognition

Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia2019

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