Question 1

What does Apo do?

Accepted Answer

Apo is an engineering leader who still ships code. 14 years building products people use every day, across payments, mobility and consumer apps, with a soft spot for passkeys and AI agents that pay their own way.

Question 2

What does Apo build for AI agents?

Accepted Answer

When an AI agent hits a paid API that answers HTTP 402, it pays from its own wallet and retries. No API keys, no invoices. Apo has built the plumbing: x402, MCP servers, passkey wallets.

Question 3

What has Apo built?

Accepted Answer

A payments platform that moved $100M+ a year, peer-to-peer car sharing across two countries, a coffee platform built from scratch, and a football app used by 150,000 fans.

Question 4

What payments work has Apo led?

Accepted Answer

Mindvalley: 9 engineers, $100M+ a year, 100+ countries. A custom checkout lifted revenue 30%. Moving off the legacy system cut failed transactions from 18% to 6%.

Question 5

What was TREVO?

Accepted Answer

TREVO, SOCAR's peer-to-peer car sharing. Concept to live in under 6 months, then Malaysia and Indonesia. Apo also drove the move to 8 microservices on a platform of 250,000 users.

Question 6

What was RAGE Coffee?

Accepted Answer

RAGE Coffee, Kuala Lumpur. Apo co-founded it and built all of it: backend, Android and iOS apps, 12 outlets on one platform. A first in Malaysia.

Question 7

What did Apo build for Ooredoo Maldives?

Accepted Answer

A real-time Euro 2024 score-prediction app for Ooredoo Maldives. 150,000 users during the tournament. NestJS, React and Astro.

Question 8

Which companies has Apo founded?

Accepted Answer

Twice, both times as co-founder and CTO: RAGE Coffee in Kuala Lumpur, and Oviato, passkey wallets for Bitcoin and beyond, backed by Draper Associates.

Question 9

What is Oviato?

Accepted Answer

Self-custody wallets that take under 20 seconds to set up: a passkey signs, the wallet exists. No seed phrases, no browser extensions. Like Apple Pay, but for wallets. Backed by Draper Associates.

Question 10

How does Apo lead engineering teams?

Accepted Answer

Small senior teams, short feedback loops, everyone owns the outcome. Up to 16 engineers across 3 teams. Hired 5, sponsored 3 promotions.

Question 11

Is Apo a manager or an engineer?

Accepted Answer

Both, on purpose. Apo moves between leading teams and writing the code, and has built whole products end to end: backend, iOS and Android.

Question 12

What is Apo's tech stack?

Accepted Answer

TypeScript everywhere. React, React Native, Next and Astro up front; Node, NestJS and Hono behind; Postgres, Redis, AWS and Cloudflare underneath.

Question 13

Where did Apo's career start?

Accepted Answer

The Maldives, 2011. News platforms for the country's biggest media outlets, built and run under heavy traffic. Apo has since advised the Maldives Independent too.

Question 14

What recognition has Apo received?

Accepted Answer

Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia, Enterprise Technology, 2020.