Hi, I'm Xin Wei — a software engineer/architect crafting fast, reliable application.

Self Introduction

A builder and solution-focused architect who enjoys turning ambiguous problems into impactful, production-ready solutions. My work blends product thinking with strong fundamentals in systems and frontend engineering, supported by deep expertise in cloud-native technologies and DevOps practices. I focus on enabling teams, improving developer experience, and driving technical excellence across scalable, high-performing systems — while continuing to write about engineering, mentor others, and explore new developer tooling.

1. Corporate Solution Architect · Redis

   2025 — Present

   Leading regional solution architecture across ASEAN and GCR, driving Redis Enterprise adoption through strategic solutions, technical leadership, and automation to deliver scalable, high-performance systems.

   • Partner with Account Executiove to define winning solution approaches, support complex corporate sales cycles and lead Proof of Concepts (POCs) showcasing redis values
   • Design and deliver reference arhitecture for high performance cachin, real-time analytics, vector search, session management, AI/ML workload
   • Build automation frameworks and scripts to streamline the full customer lifecycle: sizing, provisioning and deployment

2. Senior Software Engineer · GovTech Singpass

   2022 — 2025

   Led multiple national-scale digital identity initiatives at GovTech, architecting serverless and DevOps frameworks, optimizing cloud costs by 85%, and guiding engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient authentication systems.

   • Spearheaded the establishment of foundational Serverless infrastructure and designed DevOps framework for 5 projects, automating CI/CD pipeline and optimising deployment workflow to improve efficiency
   • Rearchitect and implement the Signpass Face Verification (SFV) system, reducing hosting cost by b85% from 1.7 million to 120,000 annually
   • Implemented observability and cost optimisation strategies to enhance system resilience and maintainability
   • Part of the engineering team to develop a new Singpass Login drop-in replacement utilising a monolithic architecture, aimed at enhancing reliability, reducing operational dependencies and streamlining system complexities
   • Contributed to a high impact product managing nearly 1 million transactions faily, applying engineering best practices, test strategy and proactive incident response for production workload
   • Led and mentored teams of engineers to deliver microservices-based authentication and decentralized identity solutions, driving code quality, agile execution, and technical excellence

3. Sea Limited · Security/Infrastructure Intern

   2021 — 2021

   Coordinated security and infrastructure projects, streamlining vulnerability management through automation and Kubernetes deployment to enhance compliance and audit readiness.

4. Shopee Product Team · Technical Project Management Intern

   2020 — 2020

   ChatGPT said: Collaborated cross-functionally to align engineering and product teams, ensuring timely releases and building a Jira-integrated analytics portal for workload and project tracking.

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