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Life mission
Don't be evil and strive for the greater good.
Work experience
- Apr 2023 - Present
Senior Backend Engineer
National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore
- Architected and developed serverless AWS and Kubernetes-based platforms to support patient follow-up, food logging, and clinical decision support for 3,000+ patients.
- Built real-time bidirectional chatbots using AWS Lambda and Django, enabling seamless patient communication via WhatsApp.
- Developed and deployed production-grade Kubernetes CronJobs to analyze 15,000+ patient records for health risk scoring and reporting.
- Implemented a Clinical Decision Support System used across 11 hospitals and polyclinics, reducing manual checks and consultation time by up to 20%.
- Designed an AI-powered drug knowledge ingestion pipeline integrating AWS Bedrock and Claude 3.5, eliminating manual drug data curation.
- Created a full-stack food logging system with AI feedback that accelerates dietitian consultations and improves patient engagement.
- Optimized AWS Athena query performance by 90% and reduced S3 storage costs by 50% through log partitioning and lifecycle policies.
- Collaborated closely with data scientists to build end-to-end pipelines combining NLP, embeddings, and LLMs for clinical and patient-facing applications.
- Dec 2020 - Mar 2023
Senior Data Scientist
Department of Data Science, Singapore General Hospital (SGH), Singapore
- Led and scaled a cross-functional data science team while spearheading forecasting, risk modeling, and real-time prediction projects.
- Deployed a Prophet-based system to predict dialysis demand, improving nurse scheduling and resource planning.
- Evaluated ML models to predict ICU risk and hypoglycemia using real-world patient data.
- Established HPC workflows, SOPs, and reviewed hospital-wide AI proposals for feasibility and impact.
- Oct 2018 - Oct 2020
Project Officer
School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NTU, Singapore
- Improved RNA flexibility prediction by 16% through a novel ML + topological data analysis framework.
- Simulated realistic financial time series using GANs and HMMs to explore market regime dynamics and investment strategies.
- Published and validated multiple research models in both biomedical and financial domains.
- Oct 2016 - Oct 2018
Data Analyst
DB Schenker
- Optimized warehouse layout, routing, and fleet usage, achieving over SGD 270K in annual cost savings.
- Automated product velocity and truck allocation analyses using Python, improving logistics efficiency.
- Revised SOPs post-automation rollout to align operations with new conveyor and sorting systems.
Certifications
- 2024
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
Amazon Web Services
- 2024
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services
- 2023
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
Education
- 2021
Master of Science (Statistics)
National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore