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Partner at Westgate Ventures · AI applications

Westgate Ventures
Melbourne, Australia · AEST (UTC+10)
10+ years experience
Melbourne Business School
English
Investing
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Overview

Partner at Westgate Ventures, backing AI applications companies. Backed 15 founders at pre-seed and seed. Most at home with product and venture capital.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in developer tools
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on product decisions
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack

Replies on weekday evenings

Skills
productventure capitalapplied ML
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $25k cheques into pre-seed AI applications in Southeast Asia

Cheque size
$25k
Stages
Series A
Sectors
Developer tools, AI applications
Geographies
India
Lead or follow
Lead
Decision time
10 business days
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

Happy to follow a strong lead. We reply to every founder.

Melbourne, Australia · remote OKapplied mlventure capitalproduct
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Experience

  1. Partner
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Westgate Ventures · 1 yr · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 38% in two quarters.
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 425ms to 81ms.
    • Led the migration of 65 services to applied ML.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    Aug 2022 - Oct 2025
    Sea · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 5.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
    UOB · 2 yr · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Backed 36 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  4. Principal Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
    Tencent · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Led or co-led 27 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Backed 31 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  5. Director of Engineering
    Dec 2016 - Oct 2018
    SoftBank · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Grew the developer experience team from 5 to 35 engineers.

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Education

  1. Melbourne Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2015 - 2017
  2. University of the Philippines Diliman
    BS, Computer Science
    2007 - 2011

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