I'm a public servant trying to close gaps between policy, business, tech.

Education

Studied Political Science at NUS.

I loved comparative & money politics. But I did lots of IR. 🥲

Certification

Interests

Webdev on-off since 2000s — PHP4 days, Wordpress, Javascript, Python frameworks

Building PCs, love building rigs for cheap, hate cable mgmt

Tech business & entrepreneurship, I like listening to people's ideas

Stable diffusion LORAs to get free Korean AI portraits

Playlist

  • All-In Podcast
  • Primeagen
  • Theo
  • Fireship
  • Syntax
  • Lenny's Podcast
  • Olivio Sarikas
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My side projects help my work.

Opportunities, Gaps

I spot opportunities and gaps in systems, ideas and processes. I'm no genius - I often just apply things I gleaned from what product leaders, engineers, tech influencers put out online.

I have Hacker News, Reddit, daily.dev, and Youtube to thank.

Know What It Takes

Because I do coding, I can understand technical complexities, trade-offs, best practices, and "definition of done".

Cost Scrutiny

I challenge cost estimates and hidden assumptions. We shouldn't spend just because we can.

I've worked for 11 years in the public service. Here's a breakdown.

Tech (53%)

Service Delivery Tech Team Lead

Manage products, tech consultancy for citizen & employee services.

Tech Infra Policy Team Lead

Policies & funding for cloud, on-prem hosting, SG Tech Stack, endpoint devices, dev toolchains.

Comms Tech Team Lead

Developed & bought media analytic products. Led investments in NLP & CV research.

Comms (27%)

Media Relations Officer

Managed media and collaborated on unpaid features of MINDEF & SAF.

Comms Strategist

Crafted comms campaigns and strategies.

Comms

Policy (20%)

NS Policy Officer

Did NS policies for sportsmen, leave, citizenship, exit control. Worked in Committee to Strengthen NS.

I enjoy side projects.
Build things, try new tools.

From Python's grip I boldly flew,
To JavaScript's wild, noisy crew,
Typescript calms the frenzied code,
But Go's sweet whispers tempt the road.

—Gemini