Builder. Changemaker. Technology Strategist. ICF-Accredited Coach.
Nedved Yang — Chief Digital & Technology Officer, AI Builder, Singapore
Chief Digital & Technology Officer @ ConstellarSingapore
Stabilise→Simplify→Scale
Enterprise transformation. AI-first engineering. Startup to acquisition. Hands-on builder who ships.
20+ years turning complex, regulated organisations into high-performing technology engines across financial services, e-commerce, retail, and media in Asia-Pacific. PhD builder who still ships code. Fewer Developers, More Builders →
About
Engineer at heart. Not the kind of CTO who stops coding — the kind who opens Google Colab on weekends to experiment with MoE architectures, vibe-codes with DeepSeek, and builds multi-agent AI systems hands-on. 150+ technical articles. 9K StackOverflow reputation reaching 1.5M developers. 20+ years turning complex, regulated organisations into high-performing technology engines. Whether it's the 2nd employee of a startup building to multi-million dollar acquisition, or a CDTO leading an AI-first SDLC transformation — I build, ship, and scale. Angel investor focused on AI for education and coaching, backing early-stage startups via Angel Central. Fewer Developers, More Builders.
Career Journey
20+
Years in Tech
150+
Tech Articles
~9K
SO Reputation
1.5M+
Devs Reached
Builder DNA
Not a PowerPoint CTO — a builder who ships. Whether it's a startup from zero or a post-merger enterprise, I build with my hands and lead from the front.
Startup Builder
Employee #2 at a tech startup — did everything from office setup and admin to building the entire APAC engineering team from scratch. Stayed 5 years through the grind to acquisition. Secured multiple Singapore government R&D grants (IDA, IMDA, MDA, STB), built iBeacon SDK, shipped rich media ad solutions across mobile and smart TV. When there's nothing, you build everything.
Enterprise Transformer
Consolidated 30+ legacy systems into 4 core platforms, migrated 90% to cloud, scaled to 100+ engineers across 4 countries. Led post-merger integration lifting delivery success from 20% to 100%, cut IT OPEX by 40%. Stabilise first, then scale.
Hands-on AI Builder
Codes on weekends in Google Colab. Built multi-agent career coaches with AutoGen, kid-safe AI agents with Singapore-specific PII detection, shipped with Google ADK days after release. Uses Claude Code daily on real projects — learned that AI agents are like very capable developers: fast but imperfect, needing structure, review, and engineering discipline. 150+ technical articles — all built, not theorised.
AI-first Team Leader
4 iterations into a real AI-first project — evolved from 'AI can do everything' excitement to designing an AI-native SDLC. Learned that AI coding without engineering discipline just produces bugs faster. Now building the playbook: requirement grilling, spec-to-task workflows, TDD as guardrails, LLM verification loops, and AI-friendly task decomposition. Contributing back to the open-source community.
Impact
Numbers that matter — results delivered across enterprise transformation, AI adoption, and engineering scale.
130+
Engineers Led
Across SG, MY, ID, CN
40%
Cost Reduction
IT OPEX optimisation
100×
AI ROI
$3K spend → $300K+ revenue
$300M+
VONB Scale
Digital assets managed
30→4
Systems Consolidated
Legacy to core platforms
45%→10%
Risk Reduced
Enterprise risk index
Experience
2023 — Present
Group CDTO & CISO
Constellar Group
— Temasek portfolio company
Post-merger digital transformation, enterprise AI across sales/finance/engineering, and CISO accountability to the board.
2018 — 2023
Head of Digital Technology
AIA Singapore
— Asia's largest insurance group
Built 100+ engineering org across 4 countries. Consolidated 30+ legacy systems into 4 core platforms. 90% cloud migration.
2018
Head of Innovation Lab
Dairy Farm Group
— Giant, Cold Storage, 7-Eleven, Guardian
Set up the innovation lab. Built data lake on AWS. Drove e-grocery, omni-channel, and in-store innovation.
2017 — 2018
Group Technical Innovation Lead
Global Fashion Group
— E-commerce across emerging markets
Built AI/ML pricing engine for a $1B+ revenue base. Architected global Data-as-a-Service platform across 5 ventures.
2012 — 2017
Director Software Eng. / R&D (APAC)
Crisp Media
— Startup → Acquired by Quotient
Employee #2. Set up everything — office admin to engineering. Secured SG government R&D grants (IDA, IMDA, MDA, STB). Built APAC team from scratch through to acquisition.
2009 — 2012
Principal Engineer / Manager
Mediacorp
2007 — 2009
Software Engineer
Motorola
2005 — 2007
Application Consultant
NCS
Coaching & Mentoring
ICF-Accredited Coach (ACC, CCE) passionate about unlocking potential in technology leaders and teams. I combine 20+ years of hands-on engineering leadership with professional coaching methodology to help individuals and organisations navigate complexity, build high-performing teams, and drive meaningful transformation.
Areas I Coach
- Technology leadership transitions (IC → Manager → Director → CTO)
- Engineering team performance & culture
- Career coaching for senior technologists
- AI transformation strategy & execution
- Post-merger technology integration
Writing & Thought Leadership
150+ articles on The Constellar Digital & Technology Blog, Medium & LinkedIn
From AI Coding to AI SDLC: What Four Iterations Taught Us
Routing Meets Retrieval: Context-Aware Multi-Agent Orchestration with AG2 + FAISS
Jul 2025Build Your Own Autonomous AI Agent with DeepSeek v3 and Browser-Use Web UI
Jan 2025Creating a Local AI Agent on Mac with AutoGen Builder & Microsoft Phi3
Jul 2024Play with AutoGen
Oct 2023Building a Multi-Agent Financial Advisor Copilot with AG2, OpenAI & DeepSeek
2025Building an Agent2Agent Startup Coach with Google ADK
2025From Prompts to Programs: DSPy + DeepSeek for Better Coaching Agents
Sep 2025Building a Kid-Safe AI Agent with Multi-Layer Protection
Aug 2025Human-in-the-Loop Safety for High-Stakes AI Agents
Jul 2025Supercharging Multi-Agent AI: Hybrid Routing with AG2
Jun 2025Play with the Newly Released OpenAI's Swarm
Oct 2024Building an Interactive Career Coach with AutoGen GroupChat
Sep 2024Creating a Graph-Based FSM Group Chat with AutoGen & Nvidia NIM
Aug 2024Creating an Agent with Customized Skill in AutoGen Builder
Jul 2024Tree-of-Thought for LLM Reasoning
Feb 2026DeepSeek-Powered Query Expansion and Self-Querying in Advanced RAG
Oct 2025Understanding Inference-Time Reasoning in LLMs
May 2025RAG vs. CAG in Google Colab
Mar 2025Mixture of Experts (MoE) vs. CNN: A Google Colab Experiment
Feb 2025QKV and Multi-head Attention in LLM
Nov 2023PPO vs GRPO on Google Colab: Two Ways to Align Language Models
May 2025Demystifying vLLM's KV Cache, Latency & Context Isolation for Faster LLMs
Jun 2025LLM Inference Exposed: How It Works And How to Make It Fast
Jun 2025Simulating LLM Short and Long Memory with FAISS, LangChain, and Google Colab
Jun 2025Knowledge Distillation in TensorFlow: Smaller, Smarter Models
Jan 2025FP32 vs. FP16 Quantization on Google Colab's Free T4 GPU
Oct 2024Testing TPU vs GPU on Google Colab After Meta's Shift Toward TPUs
Nov 2025Simulating Distributed Training on TPU & GPU in Google Colab
Feb 2025Back to When I First Asked "What Is a Container?" — CGroups and Namespaces on Colab
Sep 2025Part 2: Super Cheap Fine-Tuning DeepSeek-7B with QLoRA, RunPod, and Cursor
Apr 2025AI in the Browser: Run WebLLM for Local LLM Experiences
Dec 2024Try LLM and Embeddings on Nvidia NIM with Node.js
Jul 2024Playing with a Machine Learning Pipeline with PyTorch and MLflow
May 2024"Vibe Coding" on Google Colab with OpenAI & DeepSeek
Feb 2025Automating UI Testing with GPT-4 + Playwright in Google Colab
Jul 2025Exploring Opensource AnythingLLM: All-in-One AI Platform
Dec 2024Experiment with AI-powered Cursor: Reflections from the Edge
Apr 2025Play with LangChain
Mar 2024Building a Cheap Custom Chatbot with Gradio & Fine-Tuned DeepSeek-7B on Hugging Face
2025Tune the OpenAI Model with NodeJS
Jul 2023Fewer Developers, More Builders: Why We're Starting an AI-First Project
Feb 2026Fewer Developers, More Builders (Part 2): The First Week of Going AI-First
Feb 2026Ctrl+Alt+Delete My Career? A Veteran Developer's Take on How LLMs Are Changing Software Engineering
2023Build a Continuous Learning Environment through Tech Brown Bag Sessions
2023First-time Use Codes Generated by ChatGPT
2023How Can We Use AI in the MICE Industry?
Feb 2023Side Hustles
Live products I build and run on the side — because builders gonna build.
RetireCan.sg
Singapore FIRE retirement calculator — estimates your nest egg, CPF LIFE gap, and monthly savings needed. Making early retirement planning simple for Singaporeans.
PSLE.me
AI-powered PSLE learning companion for Singapore primary school students. Built with LLMs and fine-tuned models to support the MOE curriculum.
Get in Touch
I enjoy connecting with fellow builders and tech leaders.
Whether it's about AI, engineering culture, coaching, or just geeking out — feel free to reach out.
© 2026 Nedved Yang
Vibe-coded with AI + Next.js + Tailwind CSS
Singapore