Work

A summary of my work experiences, including internships.

Genome Institute of Singapore, A*Star, Singapore

Conducted research on machine learning models for predicting epigenomic features from DNA sequence data (single-cell, ATAC-seq)
Used transformer architecture, CNNs, RNNs, and other deep learning models in PyTorch and Lightning to build models
Wrote scripts to analyze and visualize data using Python, R, and shell scripting

Backend engineer, working in the Trust and Safety team.
Responsible for building the platform that enables machine and human moderation of unsafe content on TikTok.

Full stack developer working in the firm’s internal Chaos Engineering team, part of Platform Services.
Working in an Agile team, I use Python, Golang, ReactJS & Groovy to develop software used by other application developers in the firm.
I am involved in inception, integration & end to end deployment of features & microservices with CloudFoundry, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Bash & ELK stack.
I also worked on a platform to conduct smoke testing on a large scale.
Stretch role: Worked in the firm’s CSR initiative - Force for Good - & delivered a technical solution for NGO Sathya Sai Social Services over a period of 8 months. More details here

Mentored by surgeon Dr Ngiam Kee Yuan, developed machine learning models on patient data
Built NLP models on ICU data to predict patient re-admission rates
Wrote scripts to create synthetic data for the annual NUHS-MIT Critical Data hackathon

Part of the greenfield private Cloud Team at JPMC; we essentially function as a startup, backed by a big financial institution.
Developed a full-stack web-application using ReactJS, HTML, CSS & Django. Deployed it on the company’s private cloud platform.
Received a return offer to the same team (Platform Services) to join full-time.

Organized 10+ events every semester for 1500+ exchange students
Offered mentorship, answered concerns & provided conflict resolution for exchangers
Liaised with external organizations to co-ordinate university-wide events
Developed technical solutions to automate manual tasks related to events

Conducted research on homomorphic encryption & its applications in relational databases (SQL)
Wrote code to compare performance on different databases for encrypted data
Co-wrote a research paper on homomorphic encryption for ICCIP’16.

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