👋 Moi c'est Liwen. A fresh EMBA graduate who lives and breathes tech & innovation, learning Français & 日本語.

I am a technologist turned business geek.

Since managing to move a picture of Super Mario from left to right on my Commando 64, I have never lost the satisfaction of using technology to create things.

I moved to the UK and completed my Master’s degree in Computer Science at Durham University, and have worked in technology ever since. Nowadays, although not doing software engineering for a living, I still find spare time to tinker with my Emacs setup with a bit of lisp code. I use org-mode as the single source of truth for organising all my notes and agenda. You can say I live in Emacs & Org-mode.

I have just finished my Executive MBA study at Imperial College London Business School, combining my passion for tech disruption and business innovation. I never thought I had a knack for corporate finance and economics, but it turned out I enjoy them much more than I would like to admit, and I am pretty good at them!

I work at one of the UK’s largest media companies as the Head of Emerging Tech in innovation. I love the possibilities born from the marriage of deep tech know-how and business acumen. I also love people development - used to give software craftsmanship coaching sessions in my previous work and built and managed some of the most high-performing engineering teams and functions.

The opinions expressed on this website are solely my own and not necessarily those of my employer.

Over the years, I have tried and failed to maintain a blog countless times. The idea of writing something valuable for others was overwhelming. The only achievement I had was that I once made a popular WordPress theme (for WordPress v0.7), released it and chalked up a Google Page Rank of 5 (If you are old enough to understand what it is, that is!). I hope this one will make me write more.