Build For Good 2024Winning team (Birdhouse)
GovTech Data & AI Tournament 2024Tableau Track winner
AWS x GovTech AI League2nd place
ESOMARYoung ESOMAR Society Award
An old Chinese compliment for someone equally at home in the kitchen and the grand hall. Mine are the terminal and the boardroom.
A deliberate evolution. I spent the first half of my career mastering the why: running national surveys, leading the impact evaluation of a $580M social service fund, and winning an international research award. I spent the second half mastering the how: cloud data platforms, automated pipelines, and AI tools people actually use. Most people do one or the other. Doing both means I don’t just build the system. I build the right system.
Turning messy data swamps into trusted, single-source-of-truth systems. I’ve stood up AWS environments, automated ETL pipelines that replaced 2 hours of manual Excel pain with a 5-minute script, and maintained the certified data sources behind dashboards serving 1,300+ users.
Problem first, technology second. Unlike traditional software, AI doesn’t scale for free. Every API call costs money. Every token adds up. So I think hard about cost structure from day one. I designed a Text2SQL engine that lets non-technical colleagues query databases in plain English. Not because LLMs are cool, but because the alternative was a 3-day turnaround from an analyst for every question. Shipping an AI feature is the easy part. Knowing when it’s wrong, and catching it before users do, is the work.
A decade of consulting taught me that the best technical work is useless if nobody understands it. I’ve presented to 1,000 delegates at an international congress, trained teams on AWS and SQL, and built dashboards that drove 138% higher engagement than platform average. I’m equally comfortable in the terminal and the boardroom, and I know which room needs which language.
Build For Good 2024Winning team (Birdhouse)GovTech Data & AI Tournament 2024Tableau Track winnerAWS x GovTech AI League2nd placeESOMARYoung ESOMAR Society AwardI believe the best way to learn is to do. A mix of production systems, competition winners, and weekend experiments. Some projects are anonymized for confidentiality but the engineering is real.
