Project Manager / Senior Software Engineer
- Sep 2025 - Present
- Singapore
Stepped up from engineering into a hybrid project-lead and senior-engineer role — owning delivery for factory-automation and AI projects across Southeast Asia's semiconductor industry. I split my time between architecting the systems myself and steering the partners, vendors, and stakeholders who ship them.
80%
Manual inspection time cut
6
Projects delivered on schedule
3
OSAT partners across SEA
What I did
- Own technical scoping, architecture, and delivery for factory-automation and AI agent projects across multiple semiconductor customers
- Lead vendor and OSAT partner relationships end-to-end — requirements, integration contracts, and delivery schedules
- Architect AWS-based platforms and computer-vision pipelines, then guide the engineers building on them
- Translate floor-level manufacturing problems into roadmaps that the business and C-suite can act on
Key wins
Led factory automation for a major IDM's Southeast Asian facility, architecting a Python-based solution integrating advanced computer vision for defect detection with real-time data analytics from bonding equipment (Die, Clip, Wire Bonding) — 80% reduction in manual inspection and alarm handling time
Directed an AI Agent research project for a global semiconductor manufacturer, building a LangChain/RAG-based agent over real-time MES processing data with quality parameters, reducing root cause analysis time for backend packaging issues
Managed external vendor relationships and technical scoping across 3 OSAT partners in Southeast Asia, defining requirements for backend/frontend packaging integration and delivering 6 projects on schedule
Architected an AI-powered marketing intelligence platform on AWS serverless, aggregating field sales data and semiconductor market trends with ML-driven predictive analysis to inform C-suite strategy for the advanced packaging market
Work & life
Leading across borders
Most of my work happens across time zones and cultures — IDM customers, OSAT partners, and engineering teams spread across Southeast Asia and China. Learning to scope tightly, write things down, and keep everyone pointed at the same outcome has mattered as much as any architecture decision.
From building to leading
Moving into a project-lead seat meant trading some hands-on keyboard time for unblocking other people. I still architect and prototype the hard parts myself, but the win now is a team shipping reliably, not just my own commits.