☈↟ Make stuff, Maximise relationships, Manifest meaning
↳ Education
University of British Columbia, Canada
⚛ B.Sc
Computer Science ♕ & Statistics ⚄, with Co-op*,
4.0 GPA, 'A' average
(2018 to present) **
Key courses: data structures, algorithms, OOP, software engineering, software architecture, multi-threading,
applied
statistics & probability, linear algebra, artificial intelligence, machine learning (all received A's, or are
yet
graded).
* for my non-Canadian readers, "co-op" is a program that allows students to take time off coursework to engage
in industry, at industry pay, for typically 4-12 months at a time.
** I took a year off for the pandemic
↳ Work Experience
Software Engineer (temporary) @
ZALORA, Singapore ☀
An e-commerce lead in Singapore, Malaysia + other Southeast Asian countries
(July to December 2020)
- Improved, wrote unit tests and fixes for, mission critical microservice API gateway (>100k requests on
sale days) in Go
- Worked across multiple micro services, gaining knowledge of: Redis, SQL, memcache, Apache Thrift, JIRA and
more.
- Collaborated with data science team to integrate their recommendation microservices into API gateway
I also worked at a chain of yoga studios in Singapore for a bit!
@yogamovement
↳ Teaching
Teaching Assisntant @
UBC, Vancouver ☂
(2018 to 2020)
Honed communication skills for technical subject matter in lectures, office hours & labs on 600+ students.
Managed multiple projects for Software Construction course: planning, requirements & execution.
Courses: Systematic Design in Racket, Software Construction in Java, and Data Structures & Algorithms in C/C++.
↳ Military Service
Clinical Support Team Lead & Medical Officer Assistant (Psychiatric) @
Singapore Armed Forces, Medical Corps ♆
(2015 to 2017)
Led a team; managed a ward; administered and observed patients. Supported medical officers in a high stress
environment.
Awarded Division's Best (2016), Conduct & Performance ratings of Outstanding (top 5 %).
High School
Tech Lead, Full Stack Developer @ SPRING Temasek Entrepreneurship Center
(September 2014 to March 2015)
Developed an Instagram like polling app, as the only technical project in the entire cohort.
Self-taught Javascript, git, MongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js, Node & Amazon Web Services (AWS) in three months.
Awarded small project funding and, later, a place at the National University of Singapore InnovFest 2015.
National Champion & President @ Junior Achievers: Company of the Year
(2014)
Nominated and elected to be the leader of an enterprise of over 20 students.
Raised capital, conceptualised an idea, create and execute a business plan over 12 weeks.
Take Two (the company) generated a net profit 330% that of starting capital.
Won national round and moved on to represent Singapore in Asia Pacific.
I aspire for this site to look like
Palantir's (or something that belongs on
West World).
MOAR CRYPTIC RUNES ☈ ☉ ☷ ♅ ♇ ⁜ ⁛ ⁙ ⁖⁑!!!