Work

HSBC UK · United KingdomNow

• Integrated internal Active Directory into the Red Hat platform so users get SSO rather than another password.
• Drove release frequency up ~30% and tightened security monitoring with modern coding assistants in the inner loop.

HSBC Hong Kong · Hong Kong

• Project lead for automations across Linux, Windows, VMware and OpenShift in HSBC Internal Cloud: bare-metal build, landing accounts, SSH key rotation with HashiCorp Vault, CVE drift remediation, SSL issuance and renewal.
• Created the Ansible Linux Profile that enforces OS, filesystem, cybersecurity and tooling standards
• Shipped secret-zero plugins so application teams manage Vault secrets without a human in the loop.
• Offered highly available, customisable IaaS to retail banking, commercial banking, and securities trading.
• CI/CD for JavaScript and Python onto Kubernetes with Helm; centralised logs into Kafka for pre-incident alerting on storage, latency, and tier-0 bottlenecks.

HSBC Hong Kong · Hong Kong

• Ansible pipelines and low-latency Python FastAPI services to produce RHEL layer-1 images used globally on public and private cloud
• Authored, tested and published maintenance packs consumed across the bank.
• System hardening, filesystem standards, networking; tuned TCP/IP and multicast for low-latency HFT paths.
• Level 2 incident response on critical applications and infrastructure.
• Cut Linux image prepare-and-release from 10 days to 2, with better consistency and team utilisation.

HSBC Hong Kong · Hong Kong

• End-to-end OS and middleware patch management automation.
• System-level REST APIs for telemetry: patch compliance, build version, load balancing, core metrics — Mule, Ansible, Puppet, Java, Go.
• Automated VMware Tools and Visual C++ .NET upgrades on Windows.
• Agile lead and Scrum MC across regions; Grafana observability for senior leadership.
• Project lead for One Data Dashboard — multi-region operational datasets, correlated, actually used.

Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong · Hong Kong

• AI systems to flag copyright violations with PyTorch and Keras.
• Oracle databases and PL/SQL for large-catalogue analysis.

Horus Intellisys · Bangalore

• Classifier tuning for India's first Advanced Driver Assistance System; precision up 15%+.
• Optimised C++ computer-vision paths with gdb, g++ and Make on Debian — latency from 1s to 4ms.