Principal Engineer · LSEG · Singapore
The Agentic Engineer.
I publish weekly on The Agentic Engineer YouTube channel, with practical, hands-on tutorials for engineers building with agents. 16+ years across banking, FX, and platform engineering, now fully focused on agent frameworks, harness engineering, and context engineering.
About Me?
Building agents in production. Teaching it on YouTube.
I'm an Agentic Engineer. By day, Principal Engineer at LSEG Singapore, leading agentic-engineering adoption across the FX division. By night, I run my personal life on Sathi, a custom AI agent that triages my email, books my visas, and drafts my replies. I also ship open-source agent tooling on GitHub.
I publish weekly on The Agentic Engineer YouTube channel, with practical, hands-on tutorials for engineers building with agents, not another hype thread. 16+ years across banking, FX, and platform engineering, now fully focused on agent frameworks, harness engineering, and context engineering.
In 2026, every engineer is an agentic engineer.About Me
On YouTube
The Agentic Engineer.
New episode every week.
12:49
I Stopped Building MCP Servers. Here's Why.
When a CLI beats an MCP server: token cost, latency, and reliability compared on the same workflows.
11:25
Every Web Page Is Becoming a Function Call
Web MCP, A2A, UCP: what's real, what's vapourware, and what changes for QA when the web becomes agent-native.
19:37
Meet OpenClaw: How One Developer Gave AI Hands
A 20-minute deep-dive on OpenClaw, the brain–hands–loop framework I use to ship every other agent on this site.
5:23
AI Agents Explained: Brain. Hands. Loop.
Five minutes on what an AI agent actually is, separated from the hype, in three components you can build.
Open-source agents
Agents I ship.
In public. In production.
atlassian-cli
A deterministic command-line interface for Jira and Confluence, designed for AI agents first, humans second. The 'CLI > MCP' philosophy from Episode 04 in shipped form: faster, cheaper, and more debuggable than wrapping every endpoint in an MCP server.
figma-cli
A command-line interface for Figma files, components, and design tokens, built on the same agent-first philosophy as atlassian-cli. Read frames, export images, list components, extract tokens, all from JSON-shaped commands an agent can chain.
Web MCP
Web MCP is the protocol layer that turns any web page into something an agent can call as cleanly as a local function. Featured in Episode 03 of The Agentic Engineer, including the QA-flavoured deep-dive on A2A, UCP, and what it means when the open web becomes agent-readable by default.
OpenClaw
An open-source framework for giving AI agents the ability to act, not just talk. The runtime featured in Episode 02 of The Agentic Engineer. Built around a brain–hands–loop architecture you can extend to any tool.
Sathi
Sathi is the agent I built for myself. It triages my email, books my visas, drafts my replies, manages my calendar, runs my house. The most honest test of agentic engineering: would you trust it with your own life?
VidSnatch
Give your AI assistant hands on YouTube. Download 4K, extract audio, grab timestamped transcripts, trim segments, all through a CLI built for agents and an MCP server that plugs into Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot. Powers my own video research pipeline.
Writing
Long-form on agentic engineering.
Every Web Page Is Becoming a Function Call
Companion essay to Episode 03 of The Agentic Engineer. Web MCP, A2A, UCP, and a working bank you can clone tonight. The new browser primitive that quietly changes what UI automation means.
Ditch the Photographer, Embrace the AI: Generate Stunning Headshots for Free
Why pay for a professional photographer when AI can generate beautiful, varied headshots for the price of a coffee? A walkthrough of the workflow I used to ship my own.
Experience
16 years. One thread: make engineers ship quality faster.
16+ years across Banking, eCommerce, and Telecom. Currently Principal Engineer at LSEG, leading global test engineering for the FX division and pioneering AI-powered quality engineering practices at scale.
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Contact
Got a hard problem in quality engineering? Let's talk.
I'm always up for a conversation about AI in testing, platform engineering, or leading quality teams at scale. I reply to most emails within a day.