Mike, Ng Sin Ching — Platform Architect · SRE

Writing

11 Aug 2026

Fresh but not isolated: the MicroVM tradeoff in CI

AI sandbox escapes expose the flaw in container boundaries. Lambda MicroVMs isolate—but snapshot-restore silently breaks your CI freshness proof.

AI Sandbox Escapes Security Vulnerabilities Multicloud, MicroVMs
21 Jul 2026

The Inversion of AI Tooling: From Access to Architecture

Access to AI tools is solved. Now the hard part: orchestrating three agents, three memories, and trust boundaries. Here's the stack that scales.

AI Agents Memory Granularity Toolchain Design, Governance
7 Jun 2026

Agents Need Architecture, Not Prompts

AgentSession 2847 migrated protected state and marked its own work PASS. Five engineering decisions that keep agent autonomy inside operational boundaries.

AI Agents Governance SRE, Platform Engineering
16 May 2026

The Last Six Months Before AI Compounding Hardens

2026 H2 is the preflight window before AI adoption gaps start hardening into structural advantage. Here's how to know which side you're building toward.

AI Adoption Technology Strategy Automation, Competitive Moat, Workforce Transformation

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Projects

Trustless

Experimental agent-native banking platform. Triple-entry ledger with PostgreSQL as source of truth, Hyperledger Fabric for cryptographic anchoring, and optional ZK proofs for privacy-preserving audit. AI agents participate as first-class regulated principals alongside humans.

Go · PostgreSQL · Hyperledger Fabric · Kafka · ZK Proofs

ended 2026-11-10
UACP

Universal Agent Control Plane — a runtime-neutral governance framework for AI agent work. Separates governance, deliberation, coordination, and execution into distinct planes, with a staged lifecycle (triage, propose, plan, execute, verify, resolve), adaptive evidence selection, and runtime enforcement via Guardian and Heartgate.

Python · Multi-Agent Governance · Docker

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Nora

A persistent member of one circle of friends, not a bot in their chat — present across Signal, Discord, WhatsApp and Instagram. A two-layer Strands Agents SDK rebuild: a tag path that answers when called, and an ambient observe-orient-decide-act loop with layered memory (notes, per-room state, Honcho) that lets her speak unprompted, gated by an explicit per-room policy.

Python · Strands Agents SDK · PostgreSQL · Honcho

active development

Studio

nortrix.io

Systems engineering practice. Infrastructure architecture, distributed systems reliability, and agent-native platforms.

Experience

2025 Nov Present

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Bowtie Life Insurance

Hong Kong
2023 Jun 2025 Oct

Chief Technology Officer

LookCard

Hong Kong & Kuala Lumpur
2022 Apr 2024 Dec

Technical Director

EDNS

Hong Kong & Singapore
2021 Jul 2024 Dec

Technical Director

One2Cloud

Hong Kong, Taipei, Dubai, Singapore & Kuala Lumpur
2020 Nov 2021 Jun

Associate Solutions Architect

CloudDuck

Hong Kong
2019 Oct 2020 Oct

Technical Program Intern

Amazon Web Services

Hong Kong

Community

2026 Present

Steering Committee on Promotion of VPET and QF

Non-official Member
2026 Present

AWS AI User Group Hong Kong

Organizer
2026 Present

AWS User Group Hong Kong

Committee
2020 2023

AWS Community Builder

Cloud Computing

Achievements

2026
AI Tinkerers Global Hackathon — Finalist

Top 15 of 687, with OpenAI
2022
WorldSkills Medallion for Excellence

Cloud Computing - South Korea
2020
STEM Excellence Award

Gold Award - Greater Bay Area
2018
AWS AI Hackathon

3rd Place

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AWS Community Day Hong Kong 2026

A session walking the five managed primitives behind a production agent — Runtime, Gateway, Memory, Identity, Observability — the failure mode each one maps to, and where the managed offering runs out. For anyone who has already hand-built a tool gateway, scoped memory, or an identity boundary, the useful part is deciding which of them is worth handing over.
Event details
AgentCon Hong Kong

A talk on what changes when AI agents move from demos into production systems: governance boundaries, reliability controls, and the operational contracts needed before autonomy becomes infrastructure.
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HKOSCON / AWS AI User Group HK

A technical session about turning data agents into production software: clear tool boundaries, observable execution, and platform patterns that make agent behavior reviewable.
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VTC Alumni

A profile tracing the path from vocational training into cloud architecture, community work, and international skills competition. Useful context for the career arc behind the current platform engineering focus.
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Unwire HK

Coverage of the cloud computing training path behind Hong Kong representation at WorldSkills, connecting hands-on infrastructure skill with later work in reliability and production platforms.
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WorldSkills

Official results for the WorldSkills Special Edition 2022 Cloud Computing competition, where Mike received a Medallion for Excellence representing Hong Kong.
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AWS Blog

A practical AWS implementation write-up for scaling outbound calls with Amazon Connect and Lex, showing early applied work across cloud services, automation, and voice interfaces.
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AWS Blog

An AWS Blog feature on applying AI and immersive interfaces in IT education, connecting classroom experimentation with real cloud architecture practice.
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Writing

Projects

Experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Chief Technology Officer

Technical Director

Technical Director

Associate Solutions Architect

Technical Program Intern

Community

AWS Community Builder

Achievements

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