ST Engineering

AI Strategist

Singapore Institute of Technology

Design for future studies. A look at the speculative future

Adjunct Lecturer

SUTD Academy

Adjunct fellow

Start2 Group

Used to smuggle startups to Germany, now I smuggle them into Singapore
Help the founders figure out if our tiny little dot is worth the hassle and pimp them to the highest local bidder

🇸🇬 Market Entry Mentor 

Metris Academy

Dinosaurization through scaling and creation of processes and systems to bring education beyond the constraints of the walls of brick and mortar

Admin overhead

Home

Run around with kids and roll over for belly rubs

Housepet

NUS Graduate Research Innovation Programme (GRIP)

Torture hopeful founders with dreams of building a business with deep tech

Commercial Champion

Commonwealth Capital Group

Asking everyone: “Have you tried turning it off and on again?”

Group Head of IT

Technical University of Munich

Engineering ethics and project management for undergraduates

Anzene

Tried and failed to make portable energy work on a grand scale for developing nations

Strategic Advisor/ CEO

🤖 🦕 
Cyborg dinosaur

I think and share opinions of technology and geopolitics
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Feel free to reach out if those ideas resonate 🫶

Yitch .

Typeless

Exciting times at Typeless! In an era where technology evolves at an unprecedented pace, we're not just keeping up; we're aiming to set the pace. Our vision of a cohesive and efficient digital experience addresses users' core challenges today: complexity, fragmentation, and digital fatigue. We see a future where digital platforms and tools communicate seamlessly, eliminating barriers and creating a unified ecosystem that enhances productivity and freedom. This vision drives us to innovate and push the boundaries of what's possible. Follow us for more insights into how we're shaping the future of digital experience. Your journey into a more connected world starts here.

Founder, Builder

Stealth

We are developing a data platform that provides fast and reliable decision-making in hours or less.

"Seeing is believing." We're working hard to bring our pilot product to you. If you're interested in joining our pilot program, DM me.

Neo4j

•	I supported sales with 100% YoY revenue growth since Neo4j's inception in ASEAN and expanded my team’s coverage to support growth in North Asia
•	Led and managed a high-performing team of Sales Engineers, focusing on recruitment, mentoring, and ramping up individuals from diverse backgrounds to drive regional success
•	Successfully met and exceeded regional revenue goals while aligning team efforts with the company's overall objectives, contributing to the organization's success
•	Fostered strong cross-functional partnerships with Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, Channels & Alliances, and Product Management to execute regional go-to-market strategies effectively
•	Demonstrated technical prowess as a Sales Engineer by effectively engaging and leading strategic deals, ensuring the clear communication of Neo4j's business and technical value to stakeholders at all levels
•	Developed and improved sales engineering best practices and processes, including discovery, technical qualification, and proof of value, contributing to the enhancement and scaling of the sales engineering function

Sales Engineering Manager, Asia

•	Successfully built and expanded the Field Engineering team for South Asia, where I recruited top-notch Sales Engineers, Consulting Engineers, and Partner Engineers to help drive the company's growth and success  
•	Focusing on growing Neo4j footprint into new markets and expanding in existing markets in the South Asia Region
•	Led strategic engagements to build partnerships with functional and technical leaders
•	Actively worked with the Customer Success Team to continue to build trust with customers to drive successful adoption and usage of Neo4j

Sales Engineering Lead, South Asia

•	Collaborated with technology partners to build got-to-market solutions 
•	Conducted technical enablement boot camps for customers and partners
•	Designed and built prototype solutions that demonstrate required functionality with Neo4j.
•	Worked with internal sales teams, led and contributed to all phases of the Neo4j Pre-sales activities
•	Been an integral part of the Neo4j sales team, helped persuade prospective Neo4j users of the benefits and advantages of graph database technology
•	Positioned Neo4j as a complementary technology that fits within the customer’s environment and architecture
•	Worked with the customers’ team to understand and address the technical requirements of their projects.
•	Helped prepare solution proposals for our customer’s engineering and management teams that help address their overall project goals
•	Organized and Conducted Neo4j technical enablement sessions for customers and partners

Senior Pre-sales Consultant

Kinetica

•	Lead remotely situated cross-functional teams through the entire software life cycle, from requirements through design, implementation, testing, and deployment of data-driven platforms.
•	Worked closely with internal and external to define use cases and expected Proof of Value
•	Worked with product owners to establish and maintain a product roadmap that optimally balanced business priorities, implementation cost, and project risk. 
•	Created detailed functional specifications that meet the client’s business needs and balanced business priorities vs. technical constraints.
•	Proactively identified and resolved issues that may impair the team's ability to meet strategic, roadmap, financial, and/or technical goals.
•	Aligned key internal and external partners to ensure scalable solutions and excellence in execution.
•	Onboarded and enabled partners across APAC to support onsite and remote delivery and training.
•	Planned and executed internal initiatives to build assets and knowledgebase to improve team productivity.

Technical Program Manager | Customer Success - APJ

Deloitte Southeast Asia

•	Lead teams of Senior Consultants and Consultants in implementing timely, accurate and actionable Business Intelligence solution dashboards for business leaders to analyze and improve business performance.
•	Worked closely with key stakeholders to establish the current state of the business and proposed roadmaps for their data journey to reach their desired state.
•	Influenced the strategic direction of projects by identifying opportunities in large, rich data sets and creating and implementing data-driven strategies to drive business value. 
•	Worked closely with Google Cloud Platform APAC to build use cases to go to market for clients in the Banking, Telco and Retail industry.
•	Managed relationships with technology vendors and planned training programs for practitioners in Deloitte SEA Analytics Practice.
•	Developed and managed internal assets to support and accelerate ongoing and future client engagements.

Manager

•	Performed business analysis and system analysis to Identify gaps in data and proposed tactical and strategical solutions to bridge those gaps  
•	Designed and developed batch and streaming ingestion pipelines from different sources to target SQL and NoSQL datastores
•	Developed and deployed data frameworks to support multiple complex downstream business logics in Relational Database environments
•	Focal point for making sound decisions related to data collection, data analysis, data governance and methodologies. 
•	Supported and worked with different teams in the development and implementation of Cloud and Big Data projects.

Senior Consultant

CBIG Consulting — Acquired by Deloitte Consulting

•	Provided consulting in the areas of data science and data engineering to key stakeholders by understanding the goals and direction of the business. 
•	Worked closely with clients to identify and solve business challenges utilizing large and multiple datasets.
•	Implemented timely, accurate and actionable Business Intelligence solution dashboards for business leaders to analyze and improve business performance.
•	Proposed and developed a design for automating the current data extraction, processing and BI/analytics implementation to reduce manual work and data inconsistency. 
•	Worked on big data framework in the areas of fraud analysis, digital data analysis, text analysis, sentiment analysis, exploratory data analysis and social network analysis.
•	Developed Hive and Impala scripts to ingest and transform data to serve downstream applications and reporting
•	Configured Flume to process and write incoming data into CDH cluster 
•	Developed shell scripts to automate deployment, testing and monitoring Oozie jobs in CDH cluster

Big Data Consultant

Wunderman

•	Single-handedly delivered data analysis reports, dashboards and metrics review documents for weekly, monthly and Quarterly metrics performance reviews. 
•	Supported external teams by developing automated Tableau dashboards for daily tracking of marketing and operational events and SLA misses.  
•	Proposed and implemented real-time online monitoring video wall for the data team and the strategy team to leverage on for their day to day work and for online crisis monitoring
•	Proposed and implemented end-to-end analytics pipeline and middleware solutions for targeted marketing initiatives
•	Topic modelling using LDA to identify trending topics and topics that specific Brands are associated with to help them understand their market and how their campaigns are affecting their outlook.
•	Performed sentiment analysis on data crawled from popular social network and blogging websites to understand general customer emotions around a brand and its products
•	Customer segmentation using hybrid approach, used decision tree to find significant independent variables and along with input from business SME’s built custom customer segments for different markets across the region
•	Trained data analysts in R and PgSQL to improve overall efficiency of the data team.
•	Provided analytics consulting for new business development initiatives.

Data Analyst, Insights & Optimisation

SMU - Singapore Management University

• Planned and prepared lab materials
• Conducted hands-on lab sessions on social network analysis
• Introduced new tools to the students for social network visualization and analysis
• Provided project consulting for postgraduate students
• Graded assignments and projects for postgraduate and undergraduate students

Teaching Assistant - Social and Contextual Analytics

iDA Singapore

•   Assisted in qualitative data analysis and prepared analytical fact sheets for business users.
•   Built and supported Proof of Concepts (PoC) for analytics projects.
•   Engaged end users from different ministries and statutory bodies to understand their problems and solved their issues by gaining insights from their data.
•   Wrote optimized SQL queries and extracted data from data warehouse as per business user requirement.
•   Worked closely with various clients to identify and solve business challenges utilizing large structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data in a distributed processing environment.
•   Processed data sets, optimized for Analytics, emphasizing data validation, data mining, data cleansing & data reduction.
•   Applied predictive analytics to build statistical models to exploit patterns in historical and transactional data to identify opportunities using machine learning as a black box. 
•   Built BI reports/dashboards for business users of different ministries and statutory bodies.
•   Managed vendors in project implementations and coordinating User Acceptance Tests for analytics projects.  
•   Performed Geospatial Exploratory Analysis to identify market penetration of client’s service/product. 
•   Set up analytics Infrastructure for effectively storing and analyzing data.

Data Engineer - Data Sciences Group

CommGate (S) Pte. Ltd.

IT Support Engineer

Founder | I help organizations stay competitive and grow through effective technology adoption

Dynamic, innovative, and results-driven, I am a seasoned technology leader with over a decade of experience in driving success across various roles in the tech industry. Currently serving as the Sales Engineering Manager for Asia at Neo4j, I have a proven track record of leading high-performing teams to exceed regional revenue goals and effectively execute go-to-market strategies. My role involves a strategic blend of technical expertise and sales acumen, leveraging my deep understanding of Neo4j's offerings to communicate their value to stakeholders at all levels.

Before ascending to my current role, I honed my skills as the Sales Engineering Lead and Senior Pre-sales Consultant at Neo4j, where I played a pivotal role in expanding the company's footprint across South Asia. My efforts in building and managing pre-sales consultants and consulting engineers have significantly contributed to the company's growth and customer success.

Before joining Neo4j, I excelled as a Technical Program Manager at Kinetica and a Manager at Deloitte Southeast Asia, where my leadership in implementing business intelligence solutions and data-driven strategies significantly improved business performance and client satisfaction. My tenure at Deloitte was marked by a keen focus on identifying and leveraging opportunities in large data sets to create value-driven strategies for clients in various industries.

My foundational roles in data engineering and analytics at GovTech Singapore and Wunderman and my early career experiences at CommGate and NC Systems and Solutions have equipped me with a robust understanding of data science, big data, and analytics. This diverse background enables me to approach challenges from multiple perspectives, ensuring comprehensive and practical solutions.

As a thought leader in the tech space, I am passionate about mentoring and developing talent. My experience as a Teaching Assistant at Singapore Management University and conducting training, workshops, and industry outreach programs are testament to my commitment to nurturing the next generation of tech professionals.

In summary, my career is a blend of technical mastery, strategic sales leadership, and a commitment to fostering cross-functional partnerships and team development. I am dedicated to leveraging my expertise to drive innovation, exceed business goals, and lead teams toward exceptional performance in the dynamic and ever-evolving world of technology.

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