Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
2X speedup of a PySpark application deployed globally.
Upgrade and maintain applications in an air gapped Linux environment.
3X speedup of critical data pipeline in PySpark - 4K users in a global corporation used this application.
I worked in Dr. Sai-Kit Yeung's Vision, Graphics and Computational Design (VGD) Group. My research involved improving on existing image inpainting methods.
Research Distributed Deep Learning on FPGAs. Discovered the non-deterministic behaviour in TensorFlow independently.
Entrepreneur First selects the world's top technical individuals and supports them to build world-class tech companies from scratch. The inaugural cohort in Singapore attracted 2300 applications and I was part of the top 2.1% of candidates that were selected. I reached out to potential customers through cold emails, warm connections and anything that I could think of. Through the customer development meetings, I gained insights in many industries ranging from space to underwater. In the program, I went through 3 teams which all did not work out in the end and transited to consulting for some of the customers. The most notable thing I built was in the 3rd team. My co-founder and I built a 99.9% accurate single camera license plate detector within 2 weeks in TensorFlow. We did everything from scratch (except using pre-trained models of course) - collecting the data ourselves, preprocessing and storing it and finally training the models.