How I got here
I grew up in Malaysia. In 2014 I moved to Hualien, on Taiwan's east coast, to study Information Technology and Management at Tzu Chi University of Science and Technology.
At university I joined the traditional music club and took up the yangqin, a Chinese hammered dulcimer. I started later than most people around me, so I practised more. The club soon handed me other jobs too: cutting videos, writing out scores, planning and promoting concerts. That is where I first learned to organise people, not just notes.
My part-time jobs were web design and event photography. None of them lasted long, but they gave me a base and made me want to keep learning, starting with Google Apps Script.
After graduating I went back to Malaysia to look for the right job, and spent the time on an ELS English programme. By then Taiwan's pace and way of life had become mine, so I came back to build my career here.
Each of my three jobs taught me something different. As a project assistant at my old university, I ran events and kept bringing small programs into the admin work to make it faster; helping the staff welfare committee showed me how other parts of an organisation run. As a senior engineer at Unimicron, a PCB maker, I did product R&D and quality control, and learned that quality depends on working across departments. At the Tzu Chi Foundation I lead IT: I build the websites, the platform under them and the AI tools colleagues use, and I run the projects from requirements to launch.