Kar Lau
Lead Software Engineer at Open Government Products
Singapore
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Top SchoolKar Lau is a Lead Software Engineer based in Singapore with nine years of experience building and scaling web applications for government and enterprise use. At Open Government Products he led front-end strategy, introduced an organisation-wide testing culture, and built shared tooling such as a design system and starter kit that now underpin the majority of the organisation’s projects. He has driven high-impact migrations and launches—from an AngularJS→React rewrite of a national form builder to a public-facing MyActiveSG+ app that handles hundreds of thousands of bookings monthly—while mentoring teams and setting architectural foundations. Comfortable across full-stack development, testing, and CI pipelines, Kar combines hands-on coding with systems-level thinking and a knack for reducing developer toil. An early Google Pay intern and former NUS teaching assistant, he pairs production delivery with a history of teaching and developer enablement.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Business Administration, Diploma Business Administration at Singapore PolytechnicStudent Exchange Programme Computer Science, Student Exchange Programme Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Computing Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (200)
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
firmware10
css-in-js10
component-library10
arm10
isolation10
uikit10
javascript10
react-components10
modular10
open-government10
validation10
chakra10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
opengovsg/starter-kit
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
A technical kit to quickly build new products
Contributions:105 reviews, 311 PRs, 412 pushes in 2 years
acquity/web
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
frontend repo for acquity: A marketplace to buy and sell stocks from private companies or startups. Acquity equity.
Contributions:127 PRs, 190 pushes, 102 branches in 1 month
marketplacereactfrontendequitysell
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