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Core Skills

TypeScriptReactNext.JSPostgres SQLMongoDBAmazon Web ServicesDialogflow

Work Experiences

Software Engineer

Government Technology Agency (GovTech)

WebSG (Previously GoWhere)

January 2026 – Present

  • —Directory listing (collaboration with SearchSG)
  • —Provides agency a visual way to make their dataset presentable in a fully customisable manner - look and feel.

MSO OneService (Kaki) 2.0

June 2025 – December 2025

  • —Restructured the code logic into tools (function calls).
  • —Main conversation flow orchestrates by AI and adopting the persona specified in the prompt.
  • —Integration with WhatsApp and Telegram for citizens to seamlessly report neighbourhood municipal issues.

Virtual Intelligent Chat Assistant (VICA)

June 2022 – June 2025

  • —Bespoke solution for agencies - Livechat integration, Telegram and WhatsApp chatbot

Associate Software Engineer

Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA)

July 2019 – June 2022

AI Product Shopfloor

  • —Built the portal frontend using React TypeScript with Material UI — partners can share, upload, and view datasets.
  • —Implemented authentication via AWS Cognito and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for S3 bucket access.
  • —Developed API endpoints using AWS Lambda to communicate with S3 and DynamoDB.
  • —Designed the offboarding architecture and flow for users and projects.
  • —Built the onboarding form and accompanying API endpoints.

Data Repository / Refinery

  • —Designed the architecture and flow for automated PII validation; implemented using AWS Step Functions.
  • —Designed and implemented dataset schema validation using AWS Lambda.

Online News Extraction (ONE)

  • —Built the ReactJS frontend with search and filtering by recency, relevance, popularity, and date range.
  • —Implemented front-end user authentication with AWS Cognito.

National Speech Corpus (NSC)

  • —Collaborated with AI Scientists to develop ASR models, TTS engines, and Speech API solutions using Microsoft Azure and the open-source Kaldi engine.
  • —Developed Script Assisted Subtitling — a tool to help media creators generate subtitles with timestamps.
  • —Built a voice ordering bot demonstrated at SG:D Industry Day 2019.

Retail Corpus Portal

  • —Developed using ReactJS; demonstrated the Retail Recommended Algorithm API returning recommendations by price, description, and categories.