I'm currently a Software Engineer at ByteDance. I love to work on things that I believe will make a positive impact.
August 2016 - June 2020
Bachelor of Computing (Honours) in Computer Science Specialisation: Database
Jan 2012 - Dec 2013
June 2020 - Present
On the DataExpress team, we provide data loading / unloading functionalities for Bytehouse.
• Kickstarted the development of job server microservices in Go to trigger and
monitor data loading and unloading jobs.
Worked on various enhancements on the services to improve on scalability, maintainability, as well as
visibility.
• Development of a general batch data ingestion application in Spark.
• Benchmarking and performance tuning of the Spark batch data ingestion application.
• Took charge of integration with various data sources to load data from.
E.g. S3, Kafka, Local file uploads, Hive, Minio, etc.
• Developed source data schema extraction features from various data formats.
E.g. csv, json, avro, protobuf, parquet, etc.
May 2019 - Aug 2019
• Designed and developed an internal front-end tool with React to assist with my team’s duties and
showcase the team’s processes.
• Took on daily operational tasks, including monitoring and troubleshooting of the daily settlement
batch jobs.
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
• Create tools to amass and engineer data with Microsoft Excel, Visual Basic and/or Python.
• Create visualisations with Tableau.
May 2018 - Nov 2018
Coding Lab is a programming school targeted at children from age 4-18.
• Headed the creation and revamp of websites for two overseas franchise.
• Project lead for overseas business expansion.
• Taught multiple programming classes.
• Developed curriculum for new programming courses.
• Initiated web analytics with Google Analytics to assess the efficiency of various online
campaigns.
July 2019 - March 2020
A start-up project aiming to offer a platform that brings peer-to-peer pet services to pet owners. Currently still in development stage, we were able to secure a $10,000 start-up grant from the school to carry out the idea.
I love to create things, and I love it even more when it helps people around me!