Supply Chain & Logistics Foundation
Graduated in Supply Chain Management and went straight into freight forwarding. Quickly learned that the industry runs on fragmented data and a lot of manual paperwork.
Learning Journey
From Supply Chain
to Software
Milestones, challenges, skills acquired, and domain knowledge built, one year at a time.
MilestoneChallengeSkillDomainEducation
2021
2022
Discovering the systemic bottleneck
Working across sea and air operations, I noticed how much time we wasted on things that should be faster. Started using Excel more seriously to pull useful info from messy data. Cut reporting time by about 60%. First time I realized I liked solving process problems.
2023
Mastering the rules of the game
Started working toward my customs broker license. Learning trade law and HS codes taught me that compliance isn't something you bolt on later. It has to be built into the system from the start.
Attempting to learn Mandarin
Started learning Chinese around June. Found it really hard and eventually paused to focus on other things. Didn't stick, but at least I tried.
2024
The ERP wall and the pivot to custom build
Looked at off-the-shelf ERPs to replace our legacy system. Too expensive per user and too rigid for our workflow. So instead of buying software, I started learning how to build it myself.
2025
The 12-hour daily grind
This was when I went all in on learning to build. Spent most days doing 12+ hours between operations work and coding. Every week I'd realize how much I still didn't know.
First production web app deployments
Went from spreadsheets to actual full-stack apps. Built the internal dashboards the team uses every day. Using a cloud backend made iteration way faster than anything I'd tried before.
Event-driven AI automation
Set up an automation workflow with AI to read vendor emails, thread conversations, and route inquiries automatically. Saved the team about 85% of the time they spent sorting emails by hand.
Engineering on a developing-country budget
Hit the cloud hosting free tier limits and realized I needed to be smarter about costs. Started self-hosting what I could, picking open-source tools over paid ones, and making sure nothing quietly racks up monthly bills.
2026
ChallengescriptingETLcloud-databasedata migrationSQL & Databases ↗Cloud Backend ↗Python ↗Legacy Systems ↗
Zero-downtime legacy database migration
Wrote a sync script that moves 490K records from a legacy database to the cloud. Runs incrementally, fixes dirty data on the way, and hasn't broken anything in production yet.
Self-hosted AI Gateway & Agentic workflows
Put an AI gateway on an affordable VPS to stop paying per-call API fees. Now it powers my personal AI agent that handles routine questions and tasks. Cut AI costs by about 80%.
MilestoneAI agentsedge computingGPU inferencemesh network
Dual-agent architecture across cloud and edge
Deployed a second AI agent on a home server with a dedicated GPU for local inference. Two agents work in parallel: one handles business ops 24/7 on a cloud VPS, the other runs strategic analysis and research locally. Connected via encrypted mesh networking.