Executive summary / Personal profile
Arif Rahman
Chief Technology Officer Singapore / Southeast Asia · Global perspective
Engineering the platforms on which the future is built.
Open to Board appointments · Advisory roles · Speaking invitations
Start a conversation01 / Leadership approach
Engineering choices shape what a product can become. I invest in architecture, technical leadership and developer effectiveness so teams can move with confidence. Reliability and delivery speed are decisions to design together, with trade-offs made explicit.
02 / Areas of responsibility
- Technology strategy
- Platform engineering
- Responsible AI
- Product innovation
- Users on the platform
- 40 M
- Across web, mobile and partner APIs
- Release frequency
- 6×
- With fewer production incidents
- Engineers led
- 1,200
- In five global engineering hubs
- Patents granted
- 23
- In payments and applied AI
Evidence from practice
- Platform transformation
- A successful product was reaching the limits of its original platform.
- Engineering scale
- Engineering growth had introduced inconsistent delivery practices and unclear ownership.
- Innovation programme
- The organisation had many promising experiments but no consistent route from prototype to supported product.