Leading a data-driven SaaS travel-tech start-up in that seeks to equip lifestyle businesses with tools to optimise their visual-driven campaigns, and a visual discovery platform for group travel with the vision of addressing the problems of unbalanced tourism.

As Tech Lead, not only did I undertake responsibilities in full-stack development and user experience design, I lead a development team of five. I had expedited and managed the development of native application in Flutter, using BLoC architecture, and Firebase. Deployed iOS alpha application on Apple Store TestFlight for external testing up-to 10,000 users. Moreover, I had coordinated and directed product design and vision; conducted extensive user research and interviews to generate user journey maps.

To manage the team, the codebase was managed through Git, I regularly conduct code reviews and oversaw NodeJS + MySQL backend server DevOps on AWS. Devised the technical roadmaps using work-breakdown structures (WBS), Gannt charts and directed daily scrums and weekly sprints as ‘Scrum Master’ as per Agile project management methodology on Atlassian Jira and Confluence.

To support the content and sales team, I had developed internal web tools on React / Next.js / TypeScript using React Hooks and Context APIs for state management. Currently exploring computer vision and machine learning solutions to extract valuable insights from our visual content.

Deep-learning solutions start-up based in Silicon Valley specializing in improving semi-conductor production yields. Developed and designed web application for data visualisation, training and admin dashboard to improve internal workflows. Single-handedly implemented graph database (Neo4j), backend API servers (Python Flask / NodeJS) and front-end client (React / Redux).

Designed and developed the pre-release of 'Isomer', a Singapore government-wide front-end and design framework to standardize the aesthetics and experience of all government affliated websites. Took charge of redesigning and standardizing of 'SG Government Design System' iconography and led user testing and training sessions.

Space management IoT start-up based in Singapore. Built the client-facing company website for lead generation and on-boarding using React. Contributed to the development of internal content management system on MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, NodeJS).

Pursuing a Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science) (Honours) with specialization in Artificial Intelligence. Curriculum includes computer science fundamentals, discrete math, software development, 'Machine Learning' and 'Computer Vision'.

Minoring in Interactive Media Development with focus on interaction design for 'Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality' (AR/VR) and mobile applications. Curriculum also includes in-depth review of 'Human-Computer Interaction' (HCI) theories, UX research and design thinking principles.

Year-long entrepreneurship programme by NUS hosted in Silicon Valley (SV) where enrolees intern at SV start-ups whilst attending courses at Stanford University and NUS satellite campuses. Curriculum includes venture creation and on-the-job learning of start-up operations.

An interdisciplinary, liberal education programme, from a select 3% of each cohort in NUS, that focuses on strengthening core academic and professional skills through intellectual breadth and depth, learning new things beyond their specialization that enables them to analyse and integrate multidisciplinary knowledge in their problem-solving.