About Me

Hey, I'm Shen Nan — a builder-investor based in Southeast Asia. I'm the sole engineer at Iterative, an early-stage fund investing across SEA and South Asia, where I build the data infrastructure, internal tooling, and AI systems that power our investment operations. In parallel, I run Fracxional, where I teach AI and data engineering courses and consult on automation strategy.

I'm drawn to the intersection of deep technical product work and venture — building things that compound, and backing founders who do the same.

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  1. IterativeCurrent

      Head of Engineering — Automations, Data Engineering & Applied AI

      1. Staff-level engineer leading the design & implementation of firm-wide data, software, IT & automation infrastructure powering portfolio operations for an early-stage VC fund.
      2. Conduct technical due diligence on deep tech & software startups; advise portfolio CTOs on engineering strategy.
      3. Built an MCP Backbone — a Slack bot routing natural-language queries across tool servers (Notion, Airtable, filesystem) with LLM routing via OpenRouter, code execution via E2B, and Slack approval gates.
      4. Shipped a Founder Knowledge Base (two-tier AI pipeline: classifier + Gemini synthesis), a Voice Interview System (ElevenLabs screening calls → Turso), a Smart Network (pgvector hybrid search), and a Memo Generator (LangGraph multi-source research → Notion).
      5. Built a 9-product internal tooling suite replacing manual workflows across deal flow, SLA monitoring, and portfolio analytics — used daily by the entire team.
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  2. Fracxional

  3. ZOLO

      Co-founder & CTO

      1. AI-powered food supply chain startup. Raised ~$350K pre-seed from Antler, Gharage Ventures, Protege Ventures, and NTUitive.
      2. Led engineering, product architecture, and technical strategy. Piloted with Indoguna, FoodXervices and CS Tay, growing to ~USD 13k MRR within 3 months.
      3. Managed an offshore engineering team across Pakistan and India.
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  4. Partior

      Senior DevSecOps Engineer

      1. Built the DevSecOps and CI/CD platform for cross-border payments on Quorum blockchain.
      2. Maintained security testing cadence (SAST, DAST, SCA, pentests) and integrated compliance and security pipelines.
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  5. Circles.Life

      Senior Software Engineer

      1. Managed a portfolio of three software products with a team of five engineers. Implemented formalized engineering practices.
      2. Built an in-house Customer Data Platform for real-time, hyper-personalized customer experiences through segmented omni-channel communication.
      3. Developed an API Sandbox for accelerated prototyping and RPC testing via Diameter Protocol with a partner telco.
      4. Created a Telco Demo Platform with module-federated Circles-X launch platform and role-based access control.
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      About Circles-X

      Software Engineer

      1. Built a full-stack web application for Jetpac's Roaming ESim and Pokemon Campaign, focusing on frontend development and mobile integration.
      2. Led engineering efforts for a B2B2C E-commerce Platform for corporate telco plan management.
      3. Developed automation tools for CI workflow, testing, type coverage, and observability. Also worked on MLOps workflows for credit scoring and customer segmentation.
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      About Labs

  6. Rocket Academy

      Software Engineering Instructor

      1. Taught programmatic thinking, data structures, and algorithms to 100+ students at Singapore's premier software engineering bootcamp.
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  7. Singapore Armed Forces

      Military Officer

      1. A decade of service. Led teams, managed operations, and built resilience. Also blew things up and cleaned up the mess.
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