Education
- 2019 → 2022 : B.A in Computer science & Management, University of Cambridge
- Grades - 1st (Rank 31/123) in 2nd year, 2.1 (Rank 16/49) in 3rd year.
- Notes (includes courses covered)
Work
- Aug 2022 → Now : Forward deployed software engineer @ Palantir
- Working on data platforms across varied fields from healthcare to energy - with use cases such as managing clinical trial data to a centralised system of calculating and sharing carbon emission data.
Startups
- Feb 2016 → Dec 2019 : Co-founder & CTO @ Lumitics
- Founded an IoT startup part time along with school and national service responsibilities, building a smart food waste tracker for hotels and airlines. Moved to an advisory role while pursuing studies. Details @ Lumitics.com
- Helped raise SGD 1.05 Million from VC’s/angel investors and deploy over 40 units in the field. Company has a multimillion-dollar valuation, was on track to raise Series A pre-pandemic and has survived it so far.
- Built the MVP and led the product development team of up to 15 developers/interns over 2 years. Learnt a lot about product management, while liaising with clients and manufacturers to deploy, improve and scale our operations.
- Technical work involved setting up the full stack backend architecture on Google Cloud platform, deploying a machine learning project from scratch and working on electronics/embedded software for our hardware.
Internships
- Summer 2020 : Research Internship @ Cambridge UC Trees Project
- Summer 2020: Software Engineering Intern @ Ninja Van
- Worked on the cloud backend platforms – the Microservices underpinning the different apps supporting the logistics flow (delivering 1 million+ parcels daily).
- Also worked on Kafka monitoring tools.
- Summer 2017: Data Science Intern @ Dentsu Aegis
- Focused on using NLP to automatically extract the key subject matter and opinion from web scraped articles for market analysis.
National Service
- 2017 - 2019 : Pottering around @Singapore Army (Mandatory National Service)
