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Experiences

The platforms I build, the roles I take on, and the work behind them.

Sep 2021 to Present

Data Engineer — AI Platform Engineering

GovTech Singapore

I work with customer teams and product stakeholders to turn AI use cases into shared production capabilities. Across these platforms, I build authentication, RBAC, audit logging and secrets management, and help resolve production incidents in enterprise and restricted environments.

Platforms & Roles

Technical OwnerMLOps & AI API Platform

Led engineering of a multi-tenant platform across AWS and Azure, shaping architecture and roadmap decisions with product stakeholders.

  • Enabled governed model development and deployment for 450+ users across 90+ teams.
  • Partnered with customer teams to cut POC delivery time by 75%, with reusable RAG reference implementations and OpenAI-compatible APIs.
  • Scaled shared AI API infrastructure to millions of requests/month, routing across commercial providers and self-hosted models using vLLM.

Core Full-Stack EngineerWhole-of-Government AI Platform

Own React applications, Go microservices and APIs, authentication, usage analytics and observability on Kubernetes.

  • Productionized the platform to reliably serve more than 3,000 requests/minute across governed AI capabilities.

Engineering Delivery LeadSelf-Hosted GenAI Platform

Led the successful migration into a highly restricted environment, coordinating engineering delivery, stakeholders and operational readiness.

  • Now coordinate newer-model onboarding, inference scaling, routing and model lifecycle management, aligning priorities across product and technical leads.

Data Foundations & Engineering Enablement

Usage Analytics & Cost Governance

Built Python/PySpark pipelines processing millions of logs/day to support usage reporting, quotas, budgeting and cost recovery.

Secure Clinical Data Platforms

Built and operated secure platforms for large-scale clinical datasets using Python/PySpark, AWS, Terraform and CI/CD, enabling national-level health economics analysis while reducing cloud costs by approximately 30%.

Engineering Enablement

Mentor interns and junior engineers, introduced structured peer review, and co-founded AI Wednesday to share practical AI/MLOps approaches.

AI Wednesday
2022

Volunteer — Python Instructor

Code In The Community

Volunteer Python Instructor at CITC, teaching beginner Python, simple electronics and coding projects to underprivileged children.

2021

Bachelor's Degree

Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

BSc Computer Science Design, Minor in Artificial Intelligence and Humanities. SUTD Undergraduate Merit Scholarship.

2021

Co Founder

Swifty
  • •Built and shipped a full-stack e-commerce platform using React and AWS and GCP
  • •Owned delivery from MVP to deployment and iteration
2020

NLP Research Intern

DeCLaRe Lab @ SUTD
  • •Worked on complex question answering using Transformer models
  • •Benchmarked baselines such as BERT and ELMo
2019

Data Analyst Intern

Univac
  • •Built Python ETL pipelines Streamed shop floor metrics via Kafka and NodeJS to surface near real-time insights
2015

Diploma In Mechanical Engineering

Singapore Polytechnic

Graduated with a Diploma With Merit

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