About
Panbo
Senior Full-Stack Engineer at HSBC. This site is a personal research archive — a place for writing that is worth revisiting, worth building on, and worth searching when you need it.
Current Work
Working on enterprise systems with a focus on backend architecture, distributed systems, and platform engineering. Tech stack includes Java, Spring Boot, React, and TypeScript in a banking environment.
Writing
This archive covers three main tracks:
Engineering — System design, architecture decisions, and technical depth. The kind of writing that tries to explain why something works, not just how.
Work Notes — Real observations from working in complex organizations. Process, people, and the unwritten rules that actually matter.
Thinking — Long-form thinking on learning, growth, and the mental models that shape decisions.