Experience

Trustana

Front-end Software Engineer
Singapore | May 2022 – Present

Worked on a comprehensive tech debt refactor for the company’s flagship product addressing app performance, feature scalability and component architecture. Redesigned several end-to-end features, leveraging on BFF architecture, React Server Components, and Next.js 14 server actions, reduced client-side state complexity, minimized re-renders, and improved overall application performance and component reusability.
Spearheaded frontend implementation for an HTML-to-PDF conversion feature which provided a flexible and scalable solution that achieved feature parity and surpassed competitors, delivering significant business advantages.
Revamped component prop composition and optimized state transitions on a component-heavy page, reducing render times by 47% through incorporating viewport observer that prevents unnecessary component reconciliation for off-screen components.
Led architecture and integration initiatives for a multi-platform web analytics pipeline, delivering high-quality user engagement data that empowers product teams to formulate effective strategies.
Worked on experimental AI features such as semantic unstructured data extraction using RAG, Grounded Segmentation and Inpainting.
Improved image resizer API which increased resizing speed by 50%, enhanced image quality as well as increased image compression rate.

Embedded Software Engineer Intern (Remote)
Munich, Germany | Jan 2021 – Jul 2021

Led development efforts for the graphical user interface of an e-hydrofoil surfboard remote controller based on ESP32 running FreeRTOS using C and the LVGL library.
Conceived and designed foundational organism and molecule components (widgets, screens, and nested menus) inspired by React’s composition patterns, facilitating scalable and collaborative UI component implementation by the team.

Software Engineer Intern
Singapore | May 2020 – Jul 2020

Rewrote a data visualization tool using React.js and Deck.gl. Rewrote entire project in React and implemented search with Algolia, resulting in a 200% improvement in Time to Interactive speeds, which significantly elevated user experience and engagement levels.

Technical Co-founder
Singapore | Oct 2019 – Jan 2022

Recyclables is a student-run social entrepreneurial project founded under NUS Social Impact Catalyst

Co-founded and spearheaded a pioneering social initiative that utilised a Telegram Bot to facilitate residents’ access to rag and bone man services which improved recycling accessibility. Launched successfully in Q3 2020 and concluded in January 2022, the initiative garnered over 4.2 tons of collected recyclables and engaged close to 800 registered users. Received recognition for recycling innovation, featuring prominently on Channel 8 and Channel U news..
Orchestrated the creation of a geofence-driven user registration system and dynamic order allocation system, ensuring scalable and adaptable region management.
Designed system architecture to be elastic and cost-efficient, supporting close to 800 users for 2 years.

National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore | Aug 2019 – Dec 2022

Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Singapore | Apr 2014 – Apr 2017