Kenneth TehLead Engineer · Singapore

Product-minded backend leadership for systems where correctness, customer experience, and operational reality meet.

Product engineering, end to end

I build product systems that hold up in the real world.

I lead from ambiguity to durable execution—shaping the product, clarifying the system, and helping teams ship with confidence.

Lead Engineer in Singapore specialising in backend systems, fintech card platforms, payments, rewards, onboarding, distributed systems, and AI-assisted software delivery. Open to conversations about Lead and Staff Backend Engineering roles in fintech, payments, and platform teams.

Building at Crypto.com

Public workbench

03 / Interactive systems
Interactive demoEligibility Lab
DECISION / ELIGIBLE / SG-v1

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Singapore policy passed. The customer can move into the market-specific product path.

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Change the inputs to inspect the decisions, state transitions, and delivery evidence.

Working principlesProduct firstReliable by designLeverage through tooling

Working notes

Thought leadership, from the workbench.

Short, practical arguments about building product systems and using AI with enough discipline to deserve the velocity.

From finance and founding a startup to product engineering

My route into engineering began in business economics, investment banking, founding and building my own startup, and product experiments. That context still shapes how I lead: understand the customer and commercial constraint, make the system legible, then help the team deliver the smallest durable solution.

Ruby / RailsGoPostgreSQLDistributed systemsAPI design / OpenAPIObservabilityCI/CDTechnical writing