3 speakers you need to meet at Singapore’s Product Hunt Meetup

Product Hunt is quickly becoming a global phenomenon and enabling startups to be discovered cross-border. Specifically, it has also been gaining a loyal following in Southeast Asia.

One SEA-made product that has done particularly well on Product Hunt is Mail to Self, a simple iOS extension to mail notes to yourself from any app. After it got posted, it quickly rose to the top of most upvoted products of the day, driving thousands of new installs. But it didn’t stop there. Being on top of Product Hunt also garnered the attention of Mashable, which wrote a short story on the app, driving even more downloads.

Like many major tech ecosystems, Singapore also has its own Product Hunt Meetup (full disclosure: Pie is organiser of the event). The Product Hunt Singapore community is a fast-growing bunch of passionate product peeps. The meetup is all about sharing learnings on building the best, most elegant products with the goal of helping the ecosystem build higher quality, more delightful products.

Here’s an introduction of the 3 speakers invited to the upcoming Product Hunt Meetup in Singapore:

Amit Chopra, Lead Developer Relations at Google

Amit Chopra is a senior technologist with over 18 years of experience building commercial software. He has a proven track record of taking numerous projects from incubation through release.

Prior to Google, Chopra was a senior program manager at Microsoft. His academic journey is a good synergy of background in technology (Masters in Technology) and business (MBA), which enables him to work comfortably across engineering and business teams.

He has worked in a variety of roles in consulting, presales, QA, development, and program management, covering a broad spectrum of skills and experiences.

Bjorn Lee, Senior Product Manager at Zopim/Zendesk

Bjorn Lee manages the Zopim live chat product, with a focus on the ingoing integration with Zendesk ticketing. Zopim was acquired by Zendesk in 2014 for US$29.8 million.

Prior to Zendesk, Lee was in the founding team at Stickery, a mobile learning game platform, and e27, a publication that covers Asian tech news.

Wei Zhu, CTO at GrabTaxi

Wei Zhu oversees all technical aspects of the company and is responsible for the successful execution of GrabTaxi’s mission through development, leading implementation of new technologies, and planning for risk and growth.