Software Engineer

PayPal, Singapore

Jan 2025 - Present

Technology Analyst

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Singapore

Jan 2023 - Jun 2023, Jul 2024 - Jan 2025

• Drove risk and audit deliverables in Technology Risk including a major APAC data localization project (US$100mil) impacting entire bank landscape while ensuring compliance with data protection regulations through a comprehensive assessment and quality assurance of bank-wide internal applications. This involved identifying whether applications processed, transacted, gathered, or stored specific data, and implementing tailored remediation measures for different jurisdictions, mitigating risks.
• Proactively identified risks and control gaps, worked with stakeholders to understand the root cause to strengthen existing control gaps, and see issues to closure.
• Developed multiple web scraping ETL pipelines for different business use cases that predominantly extracts critical data from bank intranet sources before loading into an internal database. Technologies such as Node.js, HTML, JavaScript, Puppeteer.JS were used to conduct cleaning, transformation, and validation of up-to-date data, boosting team efficiency by 70%.

Investment Lead

Protege Ventures, Singapore

Aug 2021 - May 2024

• Proactively sourced investment opportunities by reaching out and cultivating relationships with start-up founders from Pre-seed to Series A stage, while efficiently managing the investment deal flow covering Deep Tech space as Team Lead.
• Proficiently sourced deals, thoroughly conducted due diligence and prepared numerous investment memos, resulting in the presentation of 2 high potential investment recommendations to the Managing Partners.
• This was coupled with comprehensive deal analysis that was presented to industry professionals from Sequoia Capital and Wavemaker Partners.

Software Development Director

NUS Fintech Society, Singapore

Aug 2022 - Aug 2023

• Led a 50-member cross functional team to develop four software applications transforming core functionalities for the organisation while integrating industry best practices through a SCRUM framework.
• Full Stack Developer and Product Lead for the new Human Resource Management System (HRMS), while engineering new features such as attendance management, task assignments, automated account creations via CSV uploads, and an efficient membership recruitment system to handle overwhelming yearly applications. The application is currently used by 200 official members concurrently with key stakeholders: applicants, members and EXCOs.
• Successfully spearheaded the end-to-end process of product feature conceptualization, development, UAT and release of the HRMS application in production environment, while working closely with the key stakeholders to ensure their requirements and pain points are addressed.
• Tech Stack: Next.JS, React, Typescript, HTML, TailwindCSS, Firebase (Cloud FireStore), Chakra UI, tRPC, Jest.

Vice Chairperson

Sheares Hall Developers Club (Sheares Web), Singapore

Aug 2022 - Aug 2023

• Led and oversaw the development of Hall Residential wide web and mobile applications such as the Sheares Intranet and the Hall Official Website.
• Developed a full-scale telegram thrift shop bot for hall residents (attained 94 users) to sell pre-loved items with full buyer and seller capabilities such as CRUD operations of listed items such as the viewing and acceptance of offers made on items.
• Tech Stack: Python, MongoDB, AWS S3.

Product Management Intern

SeaMoney (Shopee), Singapore

May 2022 - Aug 2022

• Regional Credit Business Team for Shopee and SeaMoney BNPL services, ShopeePayLater Philippines (PH) and Malaysia (MY).
• Collaborated with local office, business development, developers, UI designers on UI enhancements for ShopeePayLater MY and integration of the external funders (Seabank and CIMB) of ShopeePayLater PH.
• Spearheaded the UAT, live testing process for ShopeePayLater PH Open To All (OTA) instead of whitelisted users.

Software Engineering Intern

Sentient.io, Singapore

2021

• Spearheaded and engineered frontend web feature components for ScribeRabbit Video Transcription Service Site such as (Register, Login, User Settings including billing and integration of multiple workspaces) using Vue.JS, Typescript, Quasar, Python.
• Integrated and tested FAST API endpoints of the backend systems.