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 2 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