Singapore
An avid competitive programmer in C++ since 2020. I love delving deep into C++ and writing performant, optimized code. Achievements include: NUS CS3233 Competitive Programming with a raw score of 82.1, A- grade 40th/50232 in CodeGoda 2023 5748 points in online programming platform Kattis, ranked 25th/80,000+ users. 2nd in Singapore 2471 LeetCode contest rating (nicholasfoocl, top 0.33%) 1711 Codeforces rating (nickyfoo)
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Worked on the National Organ Donor Transplant System to digitize forms for Human Organ Transplant Act (HOTA) and Medical (Therapy, Education and Research) Act (MTERA). o Owned and delivered several first of its kind backend features requiring independent investigation and Spring configuration, including integration with SingPass, and database integration and provisioning o Leading coordination with UX to make test profiles for user test demos o Coordinating with agency stakeholders to ensure compliance to Government security requirements o Deep technical investigations into deployment issues (Database migrations, minimizing deployment size)
Jul 22 – Sep 22: Indeed Evolve: A webapp helping Job Seekers break into the tech industry by aggregating data from Indeed job postings to determine top skills wanted for tech hires. o Aggregation of data and curation of educational content and deployment to SQL databases o Spearheaded the research and integration with Indeed logging frameworks for observability o Conducted high level analysis of our logs with (open sourced) Imhotep Query Language, a large-scale analytics platform Oct 22 – Mar 23: International Apply Team: A team working on the business critical Smart Apply Webapp, focusing on the development of bespoke features for the job application flow in international markets such as Japan and India. o Executed Apply related development for Phone Number Only accounts catering to lightly skilled markets in India where job seekers prefer WhatsApp over email for employer communication o Extensively used (open sourced) Proctor, an A/B testing framework as a toggle for feature rollouts o Contributed to refactor and migration to a new Backend For Frontend (BFF) to decouple and leverage Spring aspects for security and logging for cleaner, maintainable code
The Young Educators in Science (YES) programme, a collaboration between the Faculty and the Ministry of Education (MOE), provides students a flexible and supportive framework to learn and work alongside faculty staff in science outreach and education. At the same time, the programme equips them with communication skills in science teaching.
Backend engineering intern working on the Relational Database Service (RDS) on the Shopee Platform Product team. RDS is a product that helps scale MySQL database deployments in cloud by leveraging virtualisation and orchestration technology to maximize resource usage