Context
As the sole engineer at 
Iterativeiterative.vcEarly-stage VC fund investing up to US$500K in startups twice a year, working closely with founders for 3 months — 70+ portfolio companies across Southeast Asia and South Asia.
Iterative, an early-stage VC fund with 70+ portfolio companies across Southeast Asia and South Asia, I was responsible for every technical system the fund runs on — from data infrastructure to internal operations. No platform team, no vendors to lean on: if the fund needed it, I designed it, built it, and kept it running.
What I Did
- Data Infrastructure: Architected end-to-end data pipelines — extraction, transformation, warehousing, and BI dashboards for SLA tracking, deal flow analytics, and portfolio performance monitoring.
- Operational Automation: Built Airtable extensions, n8n workflows, Slack integrations, and custom connectors that removed manual work from fund operations entirely.
- Internal Tooling: Designed the systems the team runs on daily — from deal flow tracking to portfolio reporting — so a lean fund operates with the leverage of a much larger one.
Stack
n8nn8n.ioSource-available workflow automation — node-based, self-hostable, and the workhorse behind most of the operational automations I ship.n8nAirtableairtable.comSpreadsheet-database hybrid — the operational data layer for deal flow, portfolio tracking, and internal tooling at fund scale.AirtableNotionnotion.comConnected workspace for docs, wikis, and databases — where team knowledge lives and what internal tools read from and write to.NotionSlackslack.comTeam messaging platform — the front-end where automations deliver their output: alerts, digests, and natural-language queries.SlackMetabasemetabase.comOpen-source business intelligence — dashboards and analytics over any database, without a data team to maintain them.MetabasePostgreSQLpostgresql.orgThe world's most advanced open-source relational database — the default choice for production data that has to be correct.PostgreSQLAirbyteairbyte.comOpen-source data integration — ELT pipelines moving data from SaaS tools and APIs into the warehouse.AirbytePipedreampipedream.comServerless integration platform — connects APIs and runs event-driven workflows without managing infrastructure.Pipedream
Outcome
- Full data infrastructure built from zero — SLA dashboards, portfolio analytics, deal flow tracking
- Operational workflows automated across the fund
- A lean investment team operating with the tooling of a fund several times its size