My Journey

A timeline of professional growth and achievements

1

Founding Product Manager

Minden.ai (yuu.sg)

Singapore

Jul 2022 - Present

Leading points earn and burn experiences for over 1.9 million users of Singapore's biggest coalition loyalty program

2

Senior Product Manager

Shopee

Singapore

Jan 2021 - Jul 2022

Managed high-impact-cross team features and enhanced search experiences of users

Facilitated expansion to LATAM by managing roll-out and improvement of personalised features and models to factor local behaviour and cultural nuances
Led company-wide migration of all recommendation features and models to a global product category tree to enable seamless cross-border operations
Worked with various product teams to incorporate personalisation into their respective features by providing 'recommendations as a service'
Improved search discovery conversions through revamped auto-complete and query processing logic for efficient and optimal search results
3

Product Manager

Shopee

Singapore

Feb 2020 - Dec 2020

Spearheaded enhancements in core recommendation systems and algorithms affecting over 35% of platform traffic

Implemented knowledge graph based product collections for more contextual recommendations in features
Devised new strategies like Markov-chain based personalisation to increase homepage engagement
Liaised with engineers, data scientists and product operations to perform large scale data annotations with automated QC systems
4

Data Scientist

SAP Labs

Bengaluru, India

Jul 2017 - Feb 2020

Responsible for end-to-end delivery of data science and optimisation projects for customers in APJ region

Co-invented 'Workover rig scheduling to maximize oil production' (US Patent 11,274,548 B2) algorithm to increased customer's operational efficiency and oil output
Developed 'Container loading optimization for hollow circular pipes' (US Patent 11,834,266 B2) to increase sales and reduce transportation costs pipe manufacturers
Conducted data science and machine learning training workshops for customer facing teams across India and China offices
5

Summer Analyst

ANZ Bank

Bengaluru, India

May 2016 - Jul 2016

Intern in ANZ's global retail credit risk modeling team

Built behavioral credit scorecards to assess performance & predict default probability of existing credit card accounts
Implemented spline transformation of WoE values; achieved Gini coefficient of 0.90 & accuracy of 95%
6

Education

IIT Kharagpur

India

Jul 2012 - May 2017

(Integrated) Bachelor's & Master's in Mathematics and Computing