Generated Cover Letter

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GREETINGS

Dear Hiring Committee,

WHY AM I INTERESTED

- I am interested in the Director of Engineering, AI and Computing Infrastructure role in Singapore because it aligns with my experience building and leading engineering organizations that deliver large-scale e-commerce and infrastructure platforms, and because I have a track record of establishing site-level technical leadership and customer-focused delivery.

HOW DO I FIT

- **Engineering leadership at scale:** As Head of Engineering at GotPhoto.com | fotograf.de (2025–present) I defined and executed strategy via OKRs, owned engineering outcomes for three remote Product-Engineering teams, and rebuilt and scaled teams through targeted hiring and org design.
- **Infrastructure & platform modernization:** At NewStore I led strategy, architecture, and development to scale an Omnichannel Order Management Platform, growing from a few retailers to over **48 retailers** and increasing throughput from ~2 to **~400 orders/second**.
- **Customer-focused technical engagement:** In multiple roles I worked closely with product and stakeholders to close feature gaps, make performance metrics visible, and improve release confidence (e.g., Fintech migration with end-to-end testing and Stripe sandbox at GotPhoto; customer-facing roadmap and architecture at prior roles).
- **Operational rigor & incident management:** Introduced severity levels, escalation policies, and PIRs at GotPhoto to modernize incident management and support operations.
- **AI/automation adoption:** Standardized AI-assisted development practices across engineering (noted usage of **Claude Code** and **Devin**) to increase engineering velocity.
- **Open-source & technical contributions:** Public GitHub projects include **Search-engine** (Python) and **markov-guess**, and contributions to high-profile repositories (e.g., a contribution to chhoumann/quickadd) that reflect sustained developer engagement.

MATCH SCORECARD

- Role-building & site leadership — EVIDENCED: Head of Engineering role with org design, hiring, and cross-functional alignment at GotPhoto.
- Leading high-performing teams — EVIDENCED: Director roles at NewStore and ShipMonk; led six teams and multiple engineering managers at NewStore.
- Large-scale infrastructure systems — EVIDENCED: Scaled Order Management platform to ~400 orders/second at NewStore.
- Cloud/large-scale compute experience — MISSING/gaps: Toon timeline documents platform scaling and infrastructure work but does not explicitly list GCP or equivalent cloud provider operations experience.
- AI/ML infrastructure expertise — PARTIAL: Experience includes machine learning tooling and AI-assisted developer workflows, but no explicit large-scale AI/ML infrastructure ops record.
- Customer technical sponsorship — EVIDENCED: Customer-facing work, feature gap closures, and fintech integrations noted in GotPhoto and earlier roles.
- Mandarin fluency — MISSING/gaps: No evidence provided in timeline.

AI DISCLOSURE

> AI disclosure: Generated from the Shoeb's verified work timeline only—no JD-driven additions.
> Tailoring: Reordered and emphasized existing timeline-backed content to align with the role.
> Match Scorecard: AI analysis of evidence vs. job description.
> View resume and cover letter online: https://careerline.pro/shoeb/resume/53017deaa786782d and https://careerline.pro/shoeb/cover_letter/53017deaa786782d