Zach Khong Lap Hoe

Curriculum Vitae

+60172883933 · me@zacharyy.dev · zacharyy.dev · github.com/multipletwigs

Work Experience

Part-time Contract Software Engineer, Solana Developer Platform at Solana Foundation · May 2026 — Present

Remote (Malaysia)

TypeScript, Hono, PostgreSQL, Redis, NextJS, Solana Kit, Kora, Clerk, Zod, Vercel

Built fiat on- and off-ramps across BVNK, Coinbase, Lightspark, MoonPay, MoneyGram, Stripe and Mural Pay, all served through one consistent, unified endpoint, so developers move between fiat and stablecoins without integrating each provider themselves.

Built onchain payments on Solana, including subscriptions, recurring payments, payment requests and batch transfers, all routed through a shared counterparty system so teams set up a recipient once and pay them through any flow.

Built the delivery-versus-payment (DvP) trading experience so two parties can swap assets on Solana and settle in a single step, with network fees covered by the platform.

Led engineers on bring-your-own-key (BYOK) support for custody and RPC providers, and regularly joined calls with providers to work through integration issues and get them settled.

Fullstack Engineer at Patlytics · April 2025 — May 2026

Remote (Malaysia), San Francisco, California

AWS, S3, Pinecone, Vercel, NextJS, TailwindCSS, Python, FastAPI, Langchain, Auth0, Temporal

Worked as an engineer through Patlytics’ growth to its $40M Series B. 🎊

Led R&D and launch of an agentic platform using a supervisor-worker dispatch architecture to orchestrate 12+ modules (web search, file uploads, claim charting, prior art analysis) through a unified chat interface, enabling users to execute complex multi-step workflows that previously required manual E2E operations, built on LangChain and Temporal.

Engineered chat ingestion pipelines with OpenAI Embeddings and Pinecone, implementing auto-compaction and semantic context retrieval to maintain continuous conversational memory across long sessions.

Shipped 21+ features across 200+ PRs in 2025 at a cadence of 3–4 major PRs per week, sitting in on client calls to scope requirements and translating feedback directly into full-stack implementation, improving platform tooling conversion by 40% and user engagement time by 35%.

Boosted GTM sales efficiency by 40% by redesigning and implementing the enterprise billing pipeline integrating Maplebilling for automated credit deduction, billing and real-time usage transparency for customers and internal teams.

DevOps Engineer at Trontal Group · June 2024 — May 2025

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

AWS, OVH, Gitlab, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ansible, Helm, Prometheus Stack, ArgoCD

Architected and implemented a custom Go-based ApplicationSet Generator plugin for ArgoCD that automatically discovers deployments across repositories, managing 100+ applications across staging and production environments in a multi-cluster environment.

Empowered all engineering teams with self-service deployment capabilities through UI-based syncing on ArgoCD while maintaining security best practices, eliminating DevOps bottlenecks and reducing deployment dependencies.

Engineered a warm build environment for Go pipelines, eliminating Docker-in-Docker overhead and achieving 50% faster build times, significantly reducing resource utilization and accelerating developer feedback cycles.

Implemented advanced monitoring for Kubernetes clusters using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager, improving incident response times by 40% through Discord Bot integrations.

Frontend Software Engineer, Web Core Team at MoneyLion, Inc · July 2023 — May 2024

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Next.js, React, Styled-Components, Storybook, Node.js, TypeScript, DataDog APM, Cloudflare Pages

Enhanced MoneyLion’s observability on the Node.js Middleware APIs by refactoring legacy code to utilize modern utilities allowing developers to trace endpoint specific errors on DataDog resulting in a 40% faster response time to PagerDuty production alerts.

Improved MoneyLion UI Design Library (MLDS) Developer Experience by enhancing hot-reload efficiency, achieving an 18x speed increase. Spearheaded the creation of deprecation guidelines for library components, ensuring backward compatibility and faster shipping of updates.

Education

Monash University Malaysia · Oct 2020 — Nov 2023

Bachelor's of Computer Science · Subang, Malaysia

3.91 GPA, 86 WAM, Monash High Achiever Award (HAA).

Highest grade for Semester 1, 2023 in FIT3164 Data Science Project 2.

Projects & Achievements

🥉 Cursor × Anthropic Hackathon — 3rd Place · Dec 2025

NextJS, TLDraw, v0, Vercel

Developed an open canvas lo-fi wireframe generator designed to help UI designers prototype wireframes at the speed of light, and turn that sketch into usable React Components, fully integrated with v0 workspace.

🥇 DevTo Pinata Challenge — 1st Place · Nov 2024

NextJS, Shadcn/ui, Supabase, Pinata File API

Developed an OG Image builder with the option to host it using Pinata File API, streamlining the process of creating OG Images for various paths on a website.

🥈 Taylor’s ImpactHack — 2nd Place · Jul 2023

NextJS, Chakra UI, OpenAI GPT-4, Vercel

Built Resumetry, which parses a candidate’s resume and generates behavioural interview questions tailored to their actual experience, in place of generic screening questions.

🥉 Dell Hack2Hire — 3rd Place · Nov 2022

NextJS, Chakra UI, Prisma, Supabase, Vercel

Built an events management system in two days with a team of three; the prize included a software engineering offer from Dell.

Supabase Community Speaker · Dec 2024

Supabase Auth, PostgreSQL, Storage CDN, NextJS

Developed and presented a full-stack ticketing application at Supabase Launch Week community meetup, showcasing Supabase Auth, PostgreSQL, and Next.js integration to 50+ developers.

Actively contribute to the Supabase community through technical presentations, knowledge sharing, and demonstrating real-world implementations of the platform’s features.

Last updated February 2026