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Product Builder / Malaysia

LIM
JOHN

I build Web3 and AI products. 8+ years taking ideas from zero to one, used by hundreds of thousands.

Currently building Aira — privacy-first AI note-taking, fully on-device
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2026 — NowMalaysia

Founder Aira

  • Built a fully on-device AI system (LLM + RAG + speech pipeline) with zero cloud dependency, running on Apple Neural Engine
  • Designed end-to-end pipeline: recording → transcription → speaker diarization → structured summaries → action extraction
  • Built a RAG-based knowledge system with hybrid vector + keyword search across notes and meetings
  • Implemented map-reduce pipeline for long-context summarization to work around LLM context window limits
2025 — NowHong Kong

Senior PM Xverse

  • Shipped a cross-chain notification system from 0→1: targeting requirements, deep link routing, and notification grouping. Gave the growth team a self-serve channel for engagement campaigns
  • Owned product direction across a multi-chain ecosystem (BTC, Stacks, Starknet, Spark), balancing user trust with business growth across swaps, trading, and DeFi
  • Led Spark L2 integration end-to-end — account creation, portfolio, and trading. Xverse became the primary wallet in the Spark ecosystem
  • Drove development of Satsdaq, a trading platform covering bonding curves, ranking systems, and swap routing
  • Defined Lightning payments strategy including invoice flows, Lightning addresses, and token-to-Lightning atomic swaps
2023 — 2025Singapore

Head of Product Ordzaar

  • Rebuilt the Ordinals Launchpad. Redesigned the UX and mint flow, grew the user base from ~175K to 700K+, and hit $1.5M+ in revenue
  • Built Valhalla, a pump.fun-style platform for Bitcoin Runes memecoin launches using an AMM bonding curve
  • Shipped OdinSwap, a Bitcoin Layer 1 Rune Swap platform. $500K+ in TVL and $1.5M+ in swap volume
  • Ran the $ZAAR token generation event and airdrop. 100K+ participants
2021 — 2025Singapore

Co-Founder & CPO Superful Labs

  • Built and shipped SuperFi, a SocialFi campaign engagement tool: 150K+ unique users and 3M+ engagement actions within 2 weeks of launch
  • Partnered with Ordzaar on a distribution campaign that generated 5.4M+ impressions and 70K+ new followers in 10 days
  • Co-founded Superful, a Web3 discovery platform: 460K+ users, 5.1M+ entries, 10M+ web views. Handled product, engineering, and growth as a two-person founding team
2021 — 2023Singapore

Product Manager Milieu Insight

  • Managed five products across B2B, B2C, and internal platforms. Main link between engineering and business teams across remote offices
  • Redesigned Milieu Surveys 2.0, the company's main consumer app with 1M+ downloads across 5 markets
  • Turned 'Canvas' into the company's top revenue product by bringing it to market for B2B clients including Coca-Cola, DBS, and Shopee
2018 — 2021Singapore

Front End Lead Milieu Insight

  • Led a front-end team. Shipped 3 products
2017 — 2018Singapore

Software Engineer Shiip.io

  • React Native engineer. Built mobile apps and consulted for clients
2016 — 2017Singapore

iOS Engineer Sphere POS

  • Objective-C developer on the company's point-of-sale iPad app. Worked with product and design to ship client-specific features

AI Systems

LLMRAGOn-Device InferenceSpeech Pipelines

Mobile & Web

React NativeExpoNext.jsTypeScriptiOS

Blockchain & DeFi

Bitcoin L1/L2StacksStarknetSparkSmart Contracts

Product Craft

0→1AnalyticsExperimentationGTMGrowth

Leadership

Cross-Functional TeamsRemote-FirstProduct-Led Growth

8+ years building Web3 and AI products. Engineering background. Products used by hundreds of thousands.

Started as an iOS engineer in Singapore. Moved into frontend leadership, then product management, then co-founded two companies. Every role was about taking something from zero to one and shipping it.

B.Sc Computer Science (Honours), Multimedia University, Malaysia (2013 — 2016). I still write code. It keeps product decisions honest.

Location

Malaysia

Status

Building Aira

Education

B.Sc Computer Science (Hons)

University

Multimedia University, Malaysia

Graduated

2016

Let's build something.

Open to product roles, advisory, and building together in AI and Web3.

johnlim5847@gmail.com

Location

Malaysia

Current Focus

Aira

LinkedIn

johnlim5847

X / Twitter

@iWantYourAI