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Software engineer and founder, leading student engineering teams at NUS, building at scale and drawn to hard problems.
Final-year Computer Science at NUS specialising in Software Engineering, graduating May 2027.

• Teaching CS3219 Software Design & Architecture at NUS, mentoring 11 student engineering teams
• Building DeepCS, a learning platform for CS interview preparation, as founder and sole engineer

Aug 2026 – Present

• Mentor 11 student engineering teams through the full software development lifecycle, guiding the design, build, testing, and deployment of distributed microservices applications with REST APIs, Docker, and CI/CD
• Lead weekly classes of 30 students on large-scale system design, architecture trade-offs, and maintainable engineering practices
• Iterate on course materials weekly with professors, turning student feedback and recurring misconceptions into improved tutorials

Jul 2026 – Present

• Deployed and maintain a full-stack learning platform on Cloudflare Workers and D1, serving the React app and all content from the edge at $0 idle cost
• Re-architected a 6-service microservices backend (Docker, Redis, WebSockets, PostgreSQL) into a single edge Worker after user feedback showed no demand for live collaboration
• Secured the API with Firebase JWT verification, a server-side paywall gate, and per-user rate limiting, with no route ever trusting a user id sent by the client
• Built payments on Stripe with signature-verified, idempotent webhooks, keeping Stripe's ledger as the source of truth so user access can be rebuilt after any data loss
• Wrote a test suite containing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests running in CI on every push, to catch regressions and ensure high code quality

Jun 2026 – Jul 2026

• Improved official documentation for Mongoose (27K+ GitHub stars) and node-redis (17K+ stars), database libraries used by millions of developers, with 3 pull requests reviewed and merged by maintainers
• Found the gaps while using the libraries in production work: documented an undocumented query option in Mongoose, and traced node-redis source code to correct docs referencing a deprecated API

Dec 2025 – Mar 2026

• Founded and launched a perfume business (brand, product) as the sole engineer, designer, and operator
• Built a custom React + TypeScript storefront with reusable components and centralized state, integrating Shopify for checkout to keep payments and compliance off my plate
• Owned every deadline and deliverable, following through from first commit to a live storefront with paying customers

• NUS Certificate of Distinction, Software Engineering: 4.50 GPA across key Software Engineering modules
• Hackathon Overall Winner: 1st Place, AI Builder and Daytona HackSprint 2026

Languages

Also:  SQL

Frontend

Backend & Systems

Also:  REST APIs WebSockets Distributed Systems TCP/IP HTTP

Databases

Cloud & Tools

Also:  CI/CD Vitest