Experience

Goldman Sachs — Quantitative Strategist (Associate)

May 2022 — Jan 2026

  • Led an end-to-end OTC client FIX flow for equity-linked products (FIX protocol → Java microservice processor → GS Slang-connected pricing), driving a 150% increase in trades from the client.
  • Built pricing data ingestion for structured products: stored product datasets in MongoDB via scheduled jobs and persisted curated datasets to AWS S3 for redundancy and downstream consumption.
  • Orchestrated feature engineering workflows using Apache Airflow on EC2, running Python transformations for normalization and dimensionality reduction, improving ML prediction stability by ~50%.
  • Developed analytics pipelines and Superset dashboards to monitor turnaround time and error distributions across distribution channels; metrics used to forecast customer flow and support deal execution.
  • Helped maintain Kafka streaming for microservices with IAM-based access control and archival to S3.

Education

  • NUS — MSc Statistics (May 2024 — Present): applied statistical learning, NLP, time series, finance methods.
  • NUS — BComp Computer Science (AI specialisation) (2018 — 2022): ML foundations, big data systems, CV, ethics.

Notable projects

  • Earnings call “Reverse RAG” — traced AI-generated questions back to source transcript sentences using LangChain chunking, SentenceTransformers embeddings, and a FAISS index.
  • Real estate niche CRM — Dockerized React + Express + Postgres stack with API-based channel integrations (WhatsApp/Instagram/Facebook) and workflow automation via n8n; experimented with self-hosted Llama3-8B for lead query replies.
  • Crypto low-cap trading bot — tracked KOL posts, scored sentiment with FinBERT, and used XGBoost features (market cap, volume, volatility) to inform holding time.

Technical skills

Languages

  • Python
  • Java
  • TypeScript / JavaScript
  • Rust
  • SQL
  • R

Data / ML

  • PyTorch, Hugging Face
  • FAISS
  • Feature engineering + backtesting

Infra / tooling

  • AWS (EC2, S3, IAM)
  • Docker
  • Kafka
  • MongoDB, Postgres

Analytics / automation

  • Airflow
  • Superset
  • n8n

Certification

H2O Generative AI Track