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.

This Site

Not a blog in the traditional sense — more like a personal wiki that grows over time. The goal is to write things worth reading years later, not chasing trends or optimizing for metrics.

Start at the Archive to browse by topic, or use Search to find something specific.

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