Summary
Kai Aw is a Head of DeFi and blockchain technologist based in Singapore with four years of focused experience advancing Web3 infrastructure across startups, enterprise banking, and consulting. He blends hands-on technical writing, protocol-level thinking, and product design—having led docs and academy content at Kyber, owned Factor.fi’s technical documentation, and advised on tokenomics and system design as a consultant. Kai moved from traditional fintech and enterprise blockchain roles at DBS and IBM into DeFi to pursue more equitable, user-empowering digital systems, and he regularly publishes explanatory and thought-leadership pieces to educate diverse audiences. Comfortable bridging business and engineering, he specializes in decentralized identity, asset lifecycle design, and composable DeFi layers, with a practical background in microservices and integration technologies.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Lodge International School
IB, Economics, IB, Economics at Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
University College London
English, Malay, Chinese