my work 🛠️

Summary

The majority of my experience involves designing full-stack automations and integrations in observability. Today, I am actively seeking new opportunities to apply my expertise in observability, distributed systems, and new areas of backend development.

Education

  • Got my B.S in Engineering Science (Mechanical Engineering) and M.S in Science (Technology Management) from Nanyang Technological Unversity (NTU) in 2022.
  • Graduated with a First Class Honors, GPA 4.76/5.
  • For my Final Year Project, I researched and designed a routing and scheduling algorithm to tackle the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) in the context of ferry service operations.

Skills

  • React for frontend development
  • Golang for observability development, mostly on Prometheus and Exporters instrumentation
  • Python for automating migrations
  • Ansible for seamless builds and deployment

Work Experience

Visa Inc

Software Engineer, February 2023 - Present

Intern, May 2022 - July 2022

  • Developed a self-service onboarding service for developer teams for monitoring thousands of endpoints using Blackbox Exporter.
  • Supported the development of a configuration management tool for managing exporter configurations using Git APIs, deployed across thousands of servers,
  • Prototyped a log enrolment form powered with Generative AI in Hackathon to reduce log ingestion, projected to save up to 30% in licensing cost.
  • Implemented a self-service form for integrating AAA failover in hundreds of alerts.
  • Designed a Prometheus Configuration Management system for automating the changes in shared configurations across all Prometheus services deployed in both baremetal and K8 clusters, with a potential to reduce manual overhead by at least 90%.

HTX

Intern, December 2021 - February 2022

  • Assisted engineers in the study of industrial chemical leaks and optimizing the locations of sensor placements at community areas situated near high-risk industrial sites, to enable early detection of hazardous chemical leaks.
  • Researched and implemented Python algorithms to predict and optimize the locations of sensor placements.

Shopee

Intern, December 2020 - April 2021

  • Worked on data-patching and managed small feature-developments on Shopee’s Salesforce Force.com platform using APEX, Lightning and SOQL.

Cisco

Intern, May 2020 - July 2020

  • Researched on OpenCV's object-detection algorithms for pedestrian and vehicle real-time surveillance footage
  • Co-developed a chatbot using Cisco's Webex Teams' API and ngrok that educates users on Covid-19 related insights.

Side Projects

  • React App Template that supports Basic CRUD and Vertical sidebar
  • To-Do App, made using NextJS
  • Prometheus Onboarding Manager, a React/Golang app that manages your Prometheus queries and other metadata
  • A step-by-step migration guide from React to NextJS for large repos
  • Passport photo making, a Python app that uses opencv and rembg libraries for generating ICA-compliant passport photos
For more details, please check them out on Github.

Other things about me

  • I used to intern as a secondary school teacher. Today, I still enjoy coaching or giving technical sharings.
  • I used to compete in powerlifting but have stopped doing it due to its monotony.
  • I discovered rock-climbing in university and have been enjoying this sport since 2018.