Who am I?
Civil serpent
I'm a public servant in Singapore.
I do digitalization and digital products in the public service. Not all great. Govt products are often not great, bloated, and solution-driven. Usual suspects - senior management said so, too many stakeholders to consult/agree, 101 forums to seek approval to change for the better, lack of competency to see the problem.
Work work
I like to get hands on for tech related problems and ideas.
I try to ask hard questions and do stuff in a more alternative fashion.
I do my best to look beyond the bureacracy and red-tape - it's real.
Office
At work, I go for meetings (sometimes unfortunately not even on Teams!), write Outlook emails, create .pptx presentations, write .docx papers.
Hobby
As a hobby, I like to build stuff on the web that can solve real problems.
Django is great. Also good if I can try out various new libraries and frameworks.
Past work
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Policy Executive@ MINDEF NS Policy Department
Did a bunch of meaningful policy (paper) work
Did NS policies for sportsmen, leave, citizenship, exit control
Communications Officer@ MINDEF Comms Org
Did media/PR work, crisis/reactive comms roles
Ran media events, pitched features, wrote/executed comms plans
Comms Product Owner@ MINDEF Comms Org
Product owner for self built & purchased tooling for media analysts
Raised investments internally and oversaw NLP/CV research projects
Digital Infrastructure@ Smart Nation SG
Paper pusher for Govt on commercial cloud, Govt data centre, SG Govt tech stack, employee tooling
Assessed funding requests from Govt agencies trying to start digitalization & modernization projects
Product Owner@ MINDEF Service Delivery Division
Owns internal employee tools/systems for employee services
Manage outsourced engineering/dev teams
Paper pusher for opportunities to use technology for service delivery
Things I learn & use
I'm an amateur. I spend my free time learning new things in webdev and applying it in small ways.
Frontend
Backend
I use
Oracle Cloud Infra Digital Ocean Droplet
Ubuntu Nginx Gunicorn NodeJS PHP-FPM
Cloudflare Pages Wordpress
Courses/Certificates
Meta Back-end Developer Specialization AWS Fundamentals Specialization
Frivolous stuff
SDXL 1.0 + Loras A1111 + OneTrainer
Personal projects
Eat Your Medicine webapp with Django-Htmx-Bootstrap-Postgres
Shoutout to our doggo, Kit (Kitkit)
She's the best doggo friend we could ask for.
She's a 4-year old Corgi x Spitz.
We love Kit. Though sometimes she's naughty and will chew tissue lying around. And she eats her . She looks like this when she does something wrong.
It's great she doesn't eat anything on the floor or chew cables, though she used to.