Software Engineer
Citadel
- Designed and built complex, critical and scalable end-to-end data infrastructure to support the firm’s daily operations.
- Led initiatives to revamp and modernize tech stacks, UI/UX, workflows, DevOps processes to better meet business goals.
- Partners with the industry’s top analysts and researchers to design and develop innovative solutions that visualize financial data in a way that allows investment professionals to discover new insights and drives better decision-making.
- Mentored junior engineers on best practices and design principles to ensure continuity of robust software systems.
Engineer
- Performance assessment of Exceeding Expectations was awarded for driving several high impact projects and produced exemplary, long-lasting results, and consistently exceeding the high expectation across all areas and responsibilities.
- Supported thousands of Facebook Platform developers, providing in-depth technical support and troubleshooting.
- Rebuilt a tool used for daily support ticket triaging in modern technology stack (React, Redux, GraphQL, Relay, Flow, Hack), significantly improving triaging efficiency, test coverage (84%), performance and load time (41% faster).
- Revamped the ticket assignment logic and improved workload distribution globally and ticket turnaround time by >20%.
- Implemented a critical workflow change that improved app review accuracy by 13% to better protect platform integrity.
Contract Consultant
Deloitte
Contracted (part-time) to build a mobile app (React Native, NodeJS, MySQL) to assist Deloitte managers towards becoming adaptable leaders through gamification and collaboration.
Alibaba Scheduling Algorithm Competition
Awarded 2nd Place for designing an algorithm to generate an optimal deployment plan by scheduling processes of varying resource utilization onto thousands of machines, without violating various resource and anti-affinity constraints.
Technology Analyst Intern
Goldman Sachs
- Developed and successfully deployed Java RESTful API (JAX-RS), WebSockets and Java package for use across multiple mission critical trading systems in production.
- Created a web app prototype in ReactJS for improving meeting efficiency by providing real-time speech-to-text transcription, as well as other features such as translations, summarization, classification, searching and recommendation.
Research Assistant
National University of Singapore
- Built a multi-language karaoke mobile app in React Native and NodeJS for making language learning fun and engaging by providing automated feedback through speech to text translation and gamified lessons.
- A web portal is also created in ReactJS for teachers to manage classes, monitor students’ progress and identify areas of improvement through our analytics tools.
- Awarded I&E Practicum Grant ($10000) and SoC Innovation Prize ($2000) in 2018.
Full-stack Developer
X0PA AI
- Developed an artificial intelligence system for people management that uses data analytics, machine learning and proprietary algorithms to produce valuable predictions for business leaders, managers, employees and candidates.
- Singlehandedly manage the AWS infrastructure and front-end development (ReactJS), while assisting in various parts of the back-end development and database administration.
Research Assistant
NUS School of Business
Deployed a mobile app to collect user trips for research purposes.
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contract Software Developer
Tamil Hot House
Created an app for language learners to track reading, speaking and writing activities.
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Contract Software Developer
SGInnovate
Developed a platform to connect start-up founders to investors based on preference matching. Implemented context-based keyword matching to assist founders in filling up forms and categorical matching of investors to founders.
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017Web Application
Data Visualization
Developed an app to query and visualize conference publication data to analyse various aspects of research publications.
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017Undergraduate Tutor
National University of Singapore
Taught tutorial classes, grade assignments and provide consultation services to undergraduate students.
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Research Assistant
Yale-NUS College
Programmed a mobile app in React Native to assist in experience sampling studies and data collection, through scheduling of periodic push notifications based on research criteria and user’s availability.
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Web Application
MitySG
Built a mobile responsive app that uses Geolocation, Web Push and Land Transport Authority APIs to notify users when their buses/trains
are arriving at their start and end destinations, ensuring that users will never miss their stops even when not paying attention.
Sep 2017
Web Application
NUS Eats
- Created a mobile responsive web app that computes real-time information about canteen stalls around NUS, such as distance and crowdedness.
- Users can upload photos, give ratings and reviews, create or join meal appointments and share them on Facebook.
Equities IT Intern
Millennium Management
- Extracted and processed millions of rows of raw trading data and created a dashboard (ReactJS, NodeJS, MySQL) to provide portfolio managers a convenient and efficient way to sort, filter and search for brokers and traders across markets.
- Designed and deployed a MySQL database for efficient CRUD and automatic updating of website information from new trading data, while ensuring data consistency through the use of data validation and database constraints.
- Monitored the IT trading infrastructure in real time; identified and resolved critical issues to ensure smooth operation.
Citi Banking 101 Program
Augmented Reality
- Created a mobile app prototype which uses augmented reality to attract shoppers to merchants through gamification to increase foot traffic.
- Implemented facial recognition for quick transactions with friends by eliminating the need to enter the full bank account number.
iOS Application
Jasmine
- Created an iOS application that gamifies the learning of Chinese through various mini games.
- Users can also create and customise their own levels. A leaderboard is integrated to encourage healthy competition.
- Awarded 2nd Prize on 10th STePS Showcase.
iPad Application
Bubble Mania
- Created an iPad Bubble Shooter game that comes with an interactive level designer for users to create their own levels.
- Created a physics engine to simulate realistic elastic collisions of bubbles in midair.
Machine Learning
National University of Singapore
Investigated the optimal algorithm for fast and accurate facial recognition.
Through cross-validation and consideration of the associated VC dimensions,
a high accuracy was achieved using a voting classifier that encompasses neural networks,
support vector machines and ensemble methods.
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016Orbital Program
National University of Singapore
Implemented a web application that facilitates the sales of software products, with automatic payment processing, product downloading and a set of APIs for digital rights management.
May 2016 - Aug 2016Desktop Application
To Do List
Created an application to manage the user’s schedule and to-do tasks. It utilises regular expressions to allow succinct and flexible user input processing.
Jan 2016 - April 2016
Freelance Developer
Scripts
Developed and commercialised various scripts that utilise computer vision and OpenGL interception to recognise objects
and simulate mouse and keyboard inputs to automate tasks.
Dec 2011 - Feb 2016