# Ridzuan Ashim Ridzuan is a Technologist who has spent a good part of the past **20 years in various engineering-related roles** in the startup scene across multiple industries - *communications*, *marketing & advertising*, *digital currencies*, *security(OSINT surveillance and counter surveillance)* and *sports*. He is especially adept in helping young startups and SMEs **set up their initial engineering teams**, **cross-divisional processes** and **engineering culture**. At present, he spends his time advising companies on both software engineering, technical architecture related subjects and how to build effective teams. ## Past ### Fields of Work - **Digital solutions development** - (Marketing+others) Lead Developer @ Splazz Solutions - A development consulting company that helped companies and individuals build various web solutions - CRM, company website, EDMs - Also had expertise in building BlackBerry applications - (Marketing) Head of Development @ INEO Solutions - Digital Marketing agency working with various local and regiona - (Generic) Business Development and Project Management @ Octasia Labs - Octasia Labs focused on the production of marketing related digital assets - EDMs, campaign microsites for social media campaigns, CRMs, mobile apps. Worked with marketing/pr agencies with regional brands and local ministries - **Offensive/Defensive Security** - (Surveillance / Countersurveillance) Solutions consultant for Hire - (Field Work + OSINT Ingestion) Independent contributor to online criminal community infiltration and surveillance efforts - **Unified Communications** - Startup CEO @ Widgeous - Widgeous was a unified communication startup solving the problem of an abundance of communication platforms by allowing users and platform developers to determine how message routing will take place across platforms - **Blockchain/Cryptocurrencies/Web3** - CTO @ XSQ - Set up the cryptocurrency mining farm and built the operations team to support the running of it - Advised the investments team on the technical feasibility of projects under evaluation - Advised companies in the company portfolio - Independent advisor to blockchain startups - **Health & Fitness** - CTO / CPO @ LIV3LY - LIV3LY was a health and fitness mobile app that tracked a person's workouts and plugged them into a community of other like-minded health conscious individuals - Was responsible for building up an engineering team, technical architecture the product and managing offshore human assets - Simultaneously played an interim role to manage the product roadmap, feature planning/design and roll-out strategies. - Major highlights include rolling out the Star Wars(Disney) Virtual Run and overseeing the development of the Jurassic World run which incorporated the use of AR tech in mobile. ### Formal Education - Anderson Secondary School - Anderson JC - Computer Engineering, NTU ## Present ### Work **Technology & Innovation Lead @ The MINISTRY Agency** MINISTRY is a multi-faceted digital agency that is able to work with clients end-to-end - from tightening strategy all the way to the day to day execution of initiatives. **Lead Architect @ Start Line Initiative / Last Line Initiative** Word of mouth based general consultancy where we help solve a broad range of problems and challenges. While SLI is typically engaged to help build up/re-organise software engineering teams and processes, LLI is often engaged for 'emergency' situations requiring dynamic coordination across multiple jurisdictions at short notice. **Lead Architect @ JERVIS Network** A private infrastructure for my close friends and family. The private network is aimed at being an independent system to manage individual and group information, joint-security, joint-finances. It has a footprint across multiple countries, has high redundancy and is almost entirely privately owned and minimises reliance on external party dependencies **Co-Founder, Vanguard @ Excalibur Circle** Excalibur Circle is a private but more open group that aims to be a self-sufficient community that takes inspiration from the concept of Network States. **Lead Architect/Developer @ Project Trinity Worlds** An experimental multi-dimensional text-based game where users determine the growth and evolution of the game world. Functions across 3 layers - web domains, an in-game world space and the real world. ### Interests - Gaming - Reading / Learning - Autonomous Networks - Technology - Stoicism & Leadership ## Future ### Broad View For a long time to come, I intend: - to continue keeping on top of applied technology trends - to keep working with others to help actively build the future with the goal of pushing the human condition forward. We are all custodians of the future making impact through others. ### Personal View In the more immediate term, I am looking: - For opportunities to keep on top of technology advancement and adoption - To continue helping people build teams, processes and products - to work with highly motivated teams looking to make a meaningful dent in an industry/space. - to figure out how to incorporate gaming as a productive way for resource and people management skills training ## Contact Information Email: [email protected]