PLAYER ONE HAS ENTERED THE GAME
I practise law. I build AI. Every challenge is a level worth clearing. I start with the friction, the thing that is quietly costing people hours and nobody has fixed yet. To me, that is the most interesting problem in the room.
Being a lawyer is the unfair advantage in AI work. I do not just understand legal pain points from the outside. I have lived them, drafted around them, and stayed late because of them. That context is baked into every agent I build.
I am an in-house legal counsel who got tired of watching the same inefficiencies repeat themselves every quarter. So I did something about it. I taught myself to build the tools that legal teams actually need, not the ones vendors think they need.
My legal work spans IP, litigation, corporate venture capital, and cross-border transactions. Increasingly, the most interesting part of my job sits at the intersection: where a lawyer's eye for risk meets a builder's instinct for systems.
I have shipped compliance platforms, built multiple AI agents on critical use cases with proven adoption and user ratings, and led trainings across my department. Not because it is trendy, but because I saw what was costing people hours and decided that was worth fixing.
Tech is not a side interest. It is how I practise law. I identify where the real friction is, then design and ship agents that solve it on critical use cases, with real users and measurable results. The contract drafting agent was shortlisted from 600+ company-wide submissions. That kind of result comes from starting with the right problem.
Multi-year disputes do not run themselves. I have been a key contributor through to the appellate level, domestically and internationally. The work that makes decisions possible: the research, the due diligence, the briefings that need to land with executives who have thirty seconds to form a view.
Multi-million transactions across borders and jurisdictions, advising on IP and corporate venture capital. I draft bespoke licensing and commercialisation agreements that do not exist in templates, because great deals rarely fit in boxes.
Ongoing legal advisory for CVC deal flow, from structuring and due diligence through to investment documentation and portfolio support. I also organise cross-functional sessions to bring venture capital fundamentals closer to the wider business.
Complex ideas are only useful if people can act on them. I have emceed company townhalls, co-authored official key takeaways reports, and spoken at AI and cybersecurity trainings. The through-line: turning dense legal, technical, and IP concepts into language people can actually use. Not simplified. Translated.
Most AI projects fail because they start with the technology. I start with the friction and the challenge. To me, that is where the best opportunity lives. Once you see it clearly, the solution tends to follow.
Identify where time, morale, or money is actually leaking. Not the polished problem statement. The real one that comes out at 5pm on a Friday.
Turn the challenge into a solvable brief. Define scope, guardrails, and what success looks like before writing a single line.
Develop the agent end-to-end with prompt logic, integrations, and edge cases. Test against how real people behave, not how they are supposed to.
Roll out with accountability built in. Iterate as the organisation evolves. Make sure it keeps working when I am not in the room.
LEARNING + PLAY
I design learning experiences that make people forget they are learning. It started with Wishes for Learning, a community initiative bringing joyful, hands-on education to children in hospitals and orphanages across Kuala Lumpur. The board games I build carry the same DNA: story, strategy, and that moment when someone stops thinking about the rules and just leans in.
COMMUNITY
Showing up for people has never felt optional to me. Co-organised KBS' Rakan Prihatin at the Petaling district level in 2025, volunteered with Project Anak Malaysia, and served on the committee for the Sabah State STEM Carnival. I believe nation-building starts with young people feeling seen and capable, not just with policies written about them.
The best AI agents are not built top-down from a brief. They are built by people who have felt the friction firsthand and decided to do something about it.
Being a lawyer makes me a better builder, and building makes me a sharper lawyer. The law teaches you to be precise, to anticipate failure modes, to think carefully about what happens when things go wrong. That same mindset applies when you are designing a system that real people will depend on. Technology does not replace judgment. It is where judgment lives.
Whether you are thinking about AI in your legal function, a transaction that needs careful hands, or you just want to compare notes on what is actually working, I am always up for a good conversation.