About
I'm Ian. I ship AI in regulated stacks.
Engineer based in Kuala Lumpur. Over a decade in FinTech & RegTech. Now I'm building AI applications for Malaysians. I co-founded CekapAI.
Most engineering writing I read online is either a vendor's content marketing or somebody's personal brand exercise. I'm trying to do the third thing, which is telling the truth about what actually works in production, what doesn't.
What you'll get here
One essay a week, written from inside the work. Eval harnesses, kill switches, fraud rules, and the boring infrastructure that decides whether an AI feature survives a regulator letter or a 3am incident.
What you won't get: AGI takes, model comparisons, "how to do X with AI" tutorials. Ten thousand substacks already write those.