My life story begins here.

I did not come from a particularly well-off family, but I think I grew up in a happy one. That gave me a stable place to return to, even when I was confused, struggling, or trying to figure out who I wanted to become.

As a kid, I played a lot of games. Heroes of Newerth was my favorite, and I also spent a lot of time on DayZ, The Witcher 3, and Company of Heroes 2. I usually picked the hardest difficulty whenever I could, partly because I liked the challenge and partly because I wanted to push myself. I did not realize it then, but that probably helped build the same resilience I would lean on much later in life.

Looking back, my path makes more sense when I tell it from the beginning: a difficult high school life that built resilience, a foundation year that helped me reinvent myself, university that shaped my character, and work that slowly turned into a calling.

I was quite lost in high school and had to deal with a lot of things here and there. It was not an easy stretch, but it gave me something I still carry with me now: resilience.

Those years taught me how to keep going even when I did not have much clarity. They were uncomfortable, but they built the mental endurance that carried me through the rest of my life.

My grades were only mediocre, but they were enough to get me into Xiamen University Malaysia for foundation. That stage mattered because it gave me a fresh start, and I used it to rebuild myself in a more intentional way.

It was also the period when I studied the hardest, much more seriously than I had in high school. I pushed myself properly for the first time, and I was satisfied with what I achieved in the end: Second Class (Upper Division).

That was also when I started going to the gym seriously. I always wanted to change my body shape, and for the first time in my life I began making that happen. In many ways, that period was not just about study or fitness. It was the first time I felt I was actively becoming the person I wanted to be.

When I entered INTI International University to study Computer Science, I lived alone for my entire university life. That experience built my character in a way I did not fully appreciate at the time.

Living on my own forced me to understand myself better. I had to become more disciplined, more independent, and more aware of who I was when no one else was around to shape my routine.

Computer science felt natural to me from the beginning. It never felt forced, and that made the learning feel different. Over time I kept making the dean's list, and by the end I graduated with First Class Honours, became a valedictorian finalist, published a paper as the main author on software quality assurance, and received the Best Student award. It made it clear that this was not just a subject I was studying. It was something I genuinely had a calling for.

Fusionex was my first team shipping software that had to be correct, not just impressive. I helped build e-commerce and reporting features, wrote SQL for analysis dashboards, and got comfortable with code review, documentation, and integration work.

That experience showed me what production work feels like when other people depend on your output. I received a return offer, and it confirmed that I wanted to keep building in environments where shipping, reliability, and communication matter at the same time.

Eventually, I got my first job offer from Eezee, a Singapore startup. It meant a lot to me because it felt like the first real bridge between everything I had been working toward and the kind of work I wanted to do next.

Then COVID hit. One day before my flight to Singapore, I had to stay put because of the lockdown. I ended up waiting six months and working remotely for Eezee until October, when I finally got the chance to travel to Singapore by land. Looking back, that was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It was a strange period, but it also showed me how much people can stretch and adapt.

At Eezee, I learned what it meant to own software end to end. I worked on procurement flows for enterprise buyers, including SAP Ariba, Coupa, and Oracle PunchOut and cXML integrations used by Fortune 500 customers and SMEs across Southeast Asia.

A lot of the work sat between product, operations, and engineering. I spent time with ops, logistics, finance, and sales across five markets, shaped UX and requirements, and shipped systems that helped the business move faster. I also handled reliability work, dug into edge cases, and built reporting that gave leadership a clearer view of what was actually happening.

What I value most is that the role pushed me to be useful beyond the code itself. I wrote runbooks, cleaned up legacy modules, mentored interns, and became the person people came to when a client issue was genuinely high stakes.

Venari Solutions is where I’m packaging everything I learned into a smaller, more direct setting. I’m building in private for a few SaaS products and also building custom systems for SMEs in Malaysia.

What I value most here is full autonomy in how I solve the work. The client’s business requirements still set the direction, but within that, I get to decide the simplest useful path and build it properly. It feels less like a new direction and more like the point where everything started to connect.