Ayao is a developer.

Wins

• 2026 Zcash Hackathon · atoz.cash Bounty ↗ Winner
• 2025 ETHGlobal Agentic Ethereum · Payphone Coinbase announcement ↗ 4 prizes: Coinbase AgentKit 3rd, CDP Agentic Payments, Base AI app and more
• 2024 ETHGlobal Bangkok · Miracam Showcase ↗ The Graph Best Substream, Chainlink prize
• 2024 ETHGlobal Singapore · angpao.money On stage at 26:36 ↗ Finalist (top 10 of ~310), The Graph Grand Prize, ENS 1st place, Worldcoin prize
• 2024 Base Frames Hackathon, Singapore · Racecar Best Overall
• 2020 Sustainable Entrepreneurial Mindset Showcase (SEMS 3.0) 3rd prize, SDG 08 category winner, Best Video
• 2019 Startup Weekend Johor Bahru @ UTM · bitReceipt Team post ↗ Winner, 54-hour startup
• 2019 Startup Weekend Johor Bahru @ UTM · GimmeFood 2nd prize
• 2019 UiTM iCTFF, capture the flag & forensics 2nd runner-up

Work

• Payphone 2025 An AI voice agent that answers the phone for small businesses in Southeast Asia, books the slot and collects a deposit onchain so no-shows cost something. payphone.pro ↗ETHGlobal ↗
• angpao.money 2024 Crypto red packets you send as a link. No wallet, no gas, a free ENS name for every sender. I led the front end and wrote the ENS gateway. Demo ↗ETHGlobal ↗
• Miracam 2024 A camera that proves a photo is real. Every shot is signed by the iPhone Secure Enclave and checked onchain. I wrote the whole iOS client. miracam.xyz ↗ETHGlobal ↗
• Zcash payment links 2026 Venmo-style ZEC transfers by URL (ZIP-324) built into the Zodl iOS wallet, plus atoz.cash, the claim page. The key rides in the URL fragment and never touches a server. atoz.cash ↗Code ↗Bounty ↗
• Mai 2025 A WhatsApp concierge for Mega View Hotel that answers guests, opens tickets for staff and drives a small display at the counter. The latest piece of a client relationship that started in 2021.
• Racecar 2024 Growth tools for onchain apps: user profiling, segments and campaigns over XMTP messaging.
• Agent runtimes 2026 An ongoing line of experiments in how groups of AI agents should talk, remember and route work, rewritten in TypeScript and Rust along the way.
• ezup 2026 Turns Claude Code session history into changelogs and reports. GitHub ↗
• 奇門遁甲 engine 2026 A Qi Men Dun Jia chart engine, reverse-engineered and checked against a reference until 2,436 of 2,436 fields matched. GitHub ↗
• polycrypt 2024 A small encryption library on the native Web Crypto API. npm ↗
• Micabowl 2022–24 POS with self-order kiosk, cloud thermal printers and Grafana sales dashboards for a Mega View Hotel outlet.
• ghostfriend.my 2023 Online store for 《真的友鬼》, a Malaysian Chinese book series. Built for speed and SEO. ghostfriend.my ↗
• Mega View Hotel apps 2020–25 Technology partner to a Kuantan hotel: a cross-platform ordering app for its outlets that cut ~30% off delivery commissions, plus live staff delivery tracking.
• Persatuan Hokkien Kuantan CRM 2021 Member records and admin for a clan association, moved off paper.

From coffee to code

1. Age 10First website. Games at 13, hosting servers by 15.
2. 2016Head barista and graphic designer at Micasa Cafe by the River, Kuantan. SCA-certified barista.
3. 2018Started Computer Science (Data Engineering) at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
4. 2019Startup Weekend JB: 2nd prize in April, winner in November. First WhatsApp bot.
5. 2020Started taking on client work for hotels, restaurants and cafés. Became Mega View Hotel’s technology partner.
6. 2021Interned in R&D at Quandatics, building a real-time warehouse system. Built tools for Mega View Hotel.
7. 2022Graduated with First Class Honours (CGPA 3.97, Dean’s List). Final-year project on cloud warehouse systems with transaction consistency.
8. 2023Joined RuiLabs. Moved into LLMs: RAG apps, hosting models on serverless GPUs, fine-tuning Mistral.
9. 2024Web3 hackathons: Racecar, angpao.money, Miracam.
10. 2025Agents that do real work: Payphone, Mai.
11. 2026Won the Zcash hackathon with payment links in the Zodl wallet.
12. NowIndie. Building my own products and the agent tooling behind them.

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