A fellow human being — just curious, committed, respectful.

At STPI — a science-and-technology policy research institute in Taiwan — I design and build its digital products end to end. Three have shipped: Seek (a scholar-recommendation engine) and TOP Grants (the review workspace for discipline conveners — the senior scholars who run each field's grant decisions) — which together modernize how the government reviews its research grants — plus TEMatrix (patent-and-literature analysis), which maps where a technology is crowded or wide open for industry and academia. I owned Seek's algorithm and led product, API, and front-end design across all three, working shoulder-to-shoulder with the back-end engineer and directly with the client — who's become a strong advocate. Rebuilding the conveners' workspace was the highest-stakes piece: those conveners are some of Taiwan's most respected scholars, and a clumsy tool reflects straight back on the office running the program. What I'm most excited about is where Seek goes next — growing it from a reviewer-matcher into the connective tissue of the research ecosystem: pairing students with advisors, and academics with the companies that need them.

Part-time AI product strategist for an AI virtual-character (VTuber) startup. I authored a complete US$6M fundraising pitch for the JETRO deep-tech program, and built an automated content pipeline — HeyGen, VTube Studio, generative AI, and Python — that turned work of days, sometimes weeks, into hours, producing 6+ video assets. I also ran competitive intelligence and product-strategy consulting across the health-supplement and semiconductor verticals.

Spacematter Apps is a studio started by a close friend, where I collaborate as a founding member. I co-designed the ShiShi Timer app with one of the founders, and on the IFC Travels & Tours engagement (Yangon) I was the client-facing lead — pitching, presenting three strategy proposals, and running the relationship end to end — while the Spacematter team built the design and prototype: an MVP integrated with one of Myanmar's largest mobile-payment super-apps, with feasibility vetted alongside Huawei's China team.

As IT project manager I ran six concurrent projects — remotely from Myanmar for a Singapore app studio — for clients including Isetan Singapore, AIA Myanmar, and Extra Space Asia.

A self-funded venture and my first real turn as a founder: I set out to validate a food-education app to help people with diabetes live better, starting from nutrition data for 300+ local foods — testing the value before building the product.

Over four years I grew from project manager to technical product manager, owning the roadmap for enterprise people-operations platforms — the systems that run payroll, performance, and leave for whole companies. I grew the client base to six enterprises handling 2,700+ employees a month, and the platforms I shipped delivered real gains for those clients: 133+ staff-hours saved a month, performance appraisal completion up to 94%, and leave-approval waits cut by ~80%.

Two earlier projects stand out. On a nationwide government tender for a digital-cattle system, we were the local underdog against far better-funded players — foreign firms included — and still finished one of two finalists among 16 teams (our prototype tested 144 cattle in three days). And on a microfinance platform, I led the team to harden system stability, tune it to real customer needs, and bring reporting up to industry best practice — work that helped recover about US$100k in bad debt.