Software Engineer
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A little something about me
Hi, I am Kurt Lee, a software engineer, and a Computer Science and Mathematics undergraduate at the National University of Singapore (NUS). I have a strong background in full-stack development and a keen interest in distributed systems. I am always looking to expand my knowledge and skill set and seek opportunities to collaborate on interesting software projects to deepen my expertise in scalable and reliable system design.
See my education coursework here
My favourite langauges and frameworks are
Go, C++, NextJs, Tailwind, Typescript, Python, MySql, AWS
Software Engineer Intern
GovTech
May 2024 - Aug 2024
- Engineered a mobile-responsive Whole-of-Government platform with ReactJs.
- Implemented REST APIs for the transcription microservices using Go, managing data storage with AWS S3.
- Leveraged Go concurrency and Redis to build efficient media processing pipelines with FFmpeg.
- Sustained robust testing frameworks, maintaining Cypress for frontend end-to-end testing and Go tests for backend regression testing.
- Orchestrated Docker networks and images to efficiently manage microservices, streamlining development and staging workflows.
Software Engineer
NUS Google Developer Student Club
Aug 2023 - Jul 2024
- Developed a web application, using NextJs and TailwindCss, with a team of 8 developers, for an NGO to manage members and staff.
- Created components to allow staff to manage volunteers and automate data entry tasks, improving workflow productivity by 50%.
- Improved development productivity by modelling application using UML diagrams and designing reusable components.
NLP Research Intern
DSO National Laboratories
May 2023 - Jul 2023
- Developed a question-answering (QA) pipeline using Python FastAPI, managing queries from Vicuna-13b and GPT-3.5-Turbo.
- Performed data crawling, cleaning, and processing, on over 1000 web pages, with Selenium and BeautifulSoup.
- Leveraged 10+ open-source repositories and 15+ research papers to evaluate and mitigate regional biases with LLMs.
- Executed extensive literature review on state-of-the-art large language models and evaluation methods for long-form QA.
Lead Software Engineer
Bridges for Enterprise
Oct 2022 - Jul 2023
- Led a team of 5 developers in building a data analytics platform for sustainable farming, for a startup in Rwanda.
- Architected code components and relational data models with UML and ER diagrams.
- Organized weekly sprints and conducted code reviews with the team to improve code quality and fix issues.
- Designed and developed a web application, using Django and MySQL, to parse and analyze farm and sensor data.
Data Analyst Intern
DSO National Laboratories
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
- Developed a Python application, with Tkinter, automated 80% of data collection, cleaning, and preparation.
- Created dashboards on PowerBI to conduct data analytics and investigate critical behaviors of the system.
- Designed a data pipeline with PowerBI to automate and streamline data modelling and visualization.
- Automated monthly Excel report generations using Python, sped up the monthly data reporting process by over 250%.
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An open-source AI chatbot app that utilises RAG to provide accurate recommendations for government business support schemes, to help small and medium size businesses grow.
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Contact me
Lets get in touch!
kurtyjlee.work@gmail.com