About Me#

I was born (at a very young age) in Malaysia in 2003. I picked up C++ during secondary school, and got very interested in mathematics and coding. Prior to being admitted into NUS, I spend a lot of time taking part in mathematical and informatics olympiads. I was in the Malaysian team in Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO) 2021. As an undergraduate majoring in Computer Science, I developed strong interests towards theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and found passion in teaching as a meaningful activity that coincidentally lies within my capabilities.


Me winning a bronze award from Malaysian Computing Olympiad (MCO) 2019

Me winning a bronze award from Malaysian Computing Olympiad (MCO) 2019, https://ioimalaysia.org/competition/mco/2019/#


Outside of academics, I enjoy unforced writing (writing but not for the sake of assignments) as a medium to express my thoughts. I also think a lot about mental wellness and how to cope with things like stress and self-doubt in university. I am a big fan of learning new things and acquiring new skills. I like the idea of iteratively exploring stuff outside of my comfort zone only to end up expanding it. It suffices to say that I find myself cultivating a wide array of hobbies and interests which will be covered in my blogs.


Education#

National University of Singapore (NUS)#

Bachelor of Computing (Hons) in Computer Science

  • 2022 - 2026 (expected)

  • Minor in Mathematics

  • GPA: 4.58/5 (First Class Honours)

  • Academic Year 2022/2023 Semester 1 Dean’s List

  • Academic Year 2023/2024 Honour List of Student Tutors

  • Academic Year 2024/2025 Semester 2 Dean’s List

Chong Hwa Independent High School, Kuala Lumpur#

  • 2016 - 2021

  • Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) with 4A1 and 4A2

  • Represented Malaysia in the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO) 2021

  • Course Instructor of Computer Society from 2020 to 2021

  • Chairman of Recycling Society from 2019 to 2020


Work Experience#

MixtureAI#

Software Engineer (Intern)

  • May 2024 - Jul 2024

  • Collaborated on a project to leverage tool-augmented local language models to develop an office chatbot tailored to a company of around 500 employees based in Qatar.

  • Refactored project codebase to remove over 10,000 lines of deprecated or repetitive code.

  • Conducted an in-depth review of a 25-page research paper on tool-augmented large language models (LLMs) to inform company’s subsequent project implementation choices.

  • Fine-tuned and analysed variants of 3 state-of-the-art LLMs to accomplish a sequence classification accuracy of over 90% for tool selection tasks.

  • Tools used: Flask, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Google Cloud

Computing for Voluntary Welfare Organizations (CVWO)#

Full Stack Developer

  • May 2023 - Jul 2023

  • Maintained a case management system to support daily operations of Care Corner Counselling Centre, Care Corner Centre for Co-parenting and Children’s Aid Society.

  • Collaborated on rewriting existing backend system consisting of about 110,000 lines of code from Ruby on Rails to Golang in less than 13 weeks.

  • Optimized backend system to achieve a 500% reduction in time required to execute various backend database queries.

  • Tools used: Rails, Golang, MySQL, PostgreSQL