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Curriculum vitae

Experience

TikTok

Jul 2026 – present

Backend Software Engineer Intern

  • Fixed a production video moderation agent that often flagged entire videos instead of the violating segment, raising precise timestamp output from 72% to 91% by enforcing structured JSON output and fixing a validation bug.
  • Built a 3,900-case benchmark to test whether retrieving past moderation decisions (RAG) improves an LLM moderation agent, and prototyped an autoresearch agent that lets ops teams run their own experiments.
  • Added token, latency, and cache metrics and a Grafana dashboard to a Go captioning service to track LLM cost.

Conform Labs

Aug – Dec 2025

Co-founder

  • Built a voice-agent evaluation framework to compare agent quality across simulated conversations using automated scoring and Langfuse trace analysis.
  • Developed form analytics, document-to-form generation, and real-time voice-agent pipelines with TypeScript, FastAPI, and Pipecat.

Digital and Intelligence Service

May 2024 – Jul 2025

Software Developer, National Service

  • Built an LLM-powered exam-marking platform with custom RAG over exam materials that reduced instructor grading time by over 50% in an air-gapped environment.
  • Improved grader accuracy and robustness by benchmarking prompts and automating prompt optimization with DSPy and open-source data.
  • Integrated Langfuse telemetry to monitor traces, latency, and scoring quality, reducing time spent debugging the pipeline.

Flora

Feb – Oct 2023

Co-founder

  • Built a neural search API for unstructured enterprise documents with Elasticsearch, ONNX Runtime, Jina, FastAPI, and MongoDB, supporting public-sector and enterprise pilots.
  • Improved document-layout detection throughput by 400% by distilling and quantizing an RTMDet model for production inference.
  • Deployed pilot systems on GCP and refactored services for self-hosted environments to enable on-premise adoption with SkillsFuture SG, NSCC, and Coherent, Inc.

Defence Science and Technology Agency

Sep 2022 – Feb 2023

Software Engineer Intern

  • Built an internal MLOps model hub with Vue.js, FastAPI, and MongoDB that let teams deploy ML models as Kubernetes services.
  • Automated deployment to air-gapped Kubernetes environments with Skaffold, Helm, and service-scaling APIs for 2 departments.
  • Established a GitHub Actions CI pipeline for unit testing and linting to improve code quality and release confidence.

Education

National University of Singapore

Expected 2029

B.Comp. Computer Science

NUS Global Merit Scholarship. GPA 4.79/5.0.

Singapore Polytechnic

Mar 2023

Diploma in Applied AI and Analytics

GPA 4.0/4.0; Singapore Computer Society Silver Medal.

Leadership

RC4Entre

AY26/27

President

  • Leading the entrepreneurship interest group of Residential College 4, NUS.

NUS Hackers

2026 – present

Coreteam

  • Ran workshops for the student hacker community, including an introduction to Vim and a two-part series on end-to-end deployment.

SPAI, Singapore Polytechnic

AY21/22

Co-founder & Operations Head

  • Co-founded an AI Singapore student chapter and organised a Machine Learning Bootcamp and a Deep Learning workshop; SPAI won an SP Excellence Award in its first year.

Awards & open source

2025

Champion, SingHacks 2025.

2024

1st Place (University Category), HPC Innovation Competition 2023, for OwlShield, an LLM safety firewall.

2024

Contributed a LiteLLM integration to NVIDIA's Garak, an open-source LLM security scanner (8k+ stars).

2023

NUS Global Merit Scholarship; Singapore Computer Society Silver Medal.

2021

Best Junior Hack, NTU MLDA Deep Learning Week Hackathon, for Project Cactus.

2020

Champion, Collegial Artificial Intelligence Innovation Competition.

2020

DSTA Polytechnic Digital Scholarship.

Skills

Languages

Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, SQL

ML / LLM

PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, DSPy, RAG, ONNX Runtime, Scikit-learn

Backend / Serving

FastAPI, Streamlit, Celery

Data / Vector / Search

PostgreSQL, PGVector, MongoDB, Elasticsearch

Infrastructure / Observability

Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, Langfuse, OpenTelemetry, Grafana