Who is

Kib?

Serial Entrepreneur
Strategy Consultant
Full-stack Developer/Solution Architect with 20-year experience
Classical Music Composer
Multi-instrumentalist

EDUCATION

Started coding at the age of 11 with QBasic. At the age of 13, was Java-certified, went on to win several National-level competitions, and took on freelance projects for several companies since. Was then offered full-scholarship from NUS to pursuit my studies at the YST Music Conservatory. During which, I research to apply my knowledge in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering to Classical Contemporary Music.

B.ARTS IN MUSIC COMPOSITION (HONS) with a minor in Electronic Engineering (Music)

FULL SCHOLARSHIP, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE Grad. May 2014

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Solution Architect

Informatics: Java Programming

CAL Integration Program: Web Design

2003 - “Aadiperukku” PJC- Tamil language society webpage design competition (Consolation)

2002 - Australian Mathematics Competition for the Westpac Awards

2000 - International competitions for schools: Computer Studies (Distinction)

2000 - National Inter-Secondary School Electronic Chinese Project Competition 2000 (2nd)

2000 - 16th National Software Competition (Participation)

1999 - “Re-Boot Your Mind” Web Page Design Contest 1999 (3rd position)

Python

Javascript/Angular/React JS (Typescript)

HTML/CSS/SCSS

SQL

React Native

Golang

NOSQL

Machine-Learning/AI

Scala

Java

C++

PHP

QBASIC

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Started Enterpreneurship when I was 18 after my experience working with several companies. Researched and launched a marine fishfood startup that partnered with several shops for distribution. Went on to launch a Fast-fashion Ecommerce after college which was then the top-selling brand on Qoo10. Worked with a startup (Crescodata) which was then acquired by Pitney Bowes. As an early employee, learnt the inner workings and culture of a successful startup. Launched a HR coaching/consulting firm with my friend , where I led a team in research and provide consulting to several companies.

KISHI AI, Generative-AI Startup, Founder (2024)

Using AI to create hyper-personalized storytelling for deep customer engagement

Baysa.io, HR Coaching/Consulting (2022)

Provide analytics and consulting services to several clients including CirclesLife, LionParcel, Netflix and others. Raised USD$150K from angels with my cofounder. Hired and led a team of researchers to create our own proprietary HR Analytics reports. Our AI-powered reports are been used by CirclesLife as part of their internal talent evaluation process. Our Organization reports are provided to and been used by LionParcel and CirclesLife's senior leadership team to evaluate their organizational health.

Entrepreneur First - SG12 Cohort, Entrepeneur-in-residence

Selected as part of last cohort in Singapore

Passed Pre-IC with a team that was formed near the end of the program. IC postponed to next cohort as we needed more time for traction while the other cofounders returned to their respective countries. Won best team for BootCamp 1.

Cofounded a Fast-fashion Ecommerce Startup. Was the top-selling brand of the year in fashion accessories category on Qoo10, featured prominently on their landing page and best-selling pages. Implement data-driven marketing strategy that analyses customers’ spending patterns to optimize stock forecasting, minimizes unsold inventory, and tailored marketing email which results in higher customer retention than our competitors. Also liaises with manufacturers, coordinate and plan marketing campaigns with Qoo10 Category and other platforms managers. Implement our own digital solutions for logistics, inventory, and supply chain management.

Cofounded a Marine FishFood biz (liaise with suppliers, place products in several shops, set up subscription plan), and was a sponsor on SgReefClub. Also offer consultation services for marine fish-tank setup and coral propagation. Research on different marine organisms’ unique diet in order to create different formula for different types of marine fishes, while not overloading the bio-load of the tank system. Designed and built by hand different types of tank systems that utilized different filtration systems (chaetomorpha, mangrove, anaerobic filter system(denitrification), skimmer, etc)

TECHNOLOGY

CRESCODATA (ACQUIRED BY PITNEY BOWES)

ECOMMERCE DEVELOPER 2021 to 2022

Works closely with Head of Delivery, Project Manager, and other developers on delivery of projects (from initial prototyping to final activation). Involves with scoping, development, and testing of projects to meet client’s expectations and budget. Liaises with corporate clients on project’s technical expectations. Identifies upsell opportunities for projects, and also identify possible risks and blockers for projects. Review external api documentations to identifies technical issues/flaws/bugs and propose integration solutions. Handles multiple projects concurrently with right priorities while aligning and updating realistic timeline with project manager and stakeholders using agile/scum methodology (using Jira). Contributes to improvement of agile processes. Provides ongoing support for customer retention.

Uses technologies like Python, AWS serverless (Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, Elasticsearch) to create integration modules for different api endpoints. Handle data integration between multiple marketplaces and platforms with millions of requests everyday. Clean and manage data for some of the big brands, marketplaces and platform (Zalora, Tokopedia, Woocommerce, etc).

Identifies and improve major flaws with company’s system and infrastructure design, implemented standardization module to streamline all common processes, remove duplications, and better manage errors for better scalability. Design and improve logging system for faster and more precise debugging to provide better technical support.

Mentors and conducts whiteboarding sessions for junior developer. Improves documentation process for better communication, and creates auto-documentation flow for endpoints. Identifies major issues in customer technical solutions and company’s testing processes. Conduct stricter testing procedures and better practices to reduce bottleneck and lower risks. Setup servers for test accounts to do integration testing. Creates isolated testing environment for automated tests while conducting integration tests and users acceptance tests with PM and clients.

Part of founding team; daily communication with cofounders to identify business opportunities with our current technology. Work closely with cofounders and developers on aligning tech features with business requirements; aligning tech with marketing and price strategies so that tech can support dynamic changes. Coordinate with designer and marketing so that core featured product can be promoted effectively on Google Ads. Design and implement auto-response/notification system with customer experience officer to ensure the right tone is used at each stage.

Manage a small team; Scope project requirements for frontend and backend developers, while doing weekly reviews to adapt to dynamic business requirements. Establish best practices, documentation, and testing processes for the teams. Ensure code is adequately tested with sufficient coverage (using pytest) before deployment. Plan the overall layout of the frontend for intuitive user experience, and come up with ad-hoc tech features to cater to ongoing business demands and to improve efficiency. In-charge of designing AWS architecture to handle traffic and scale on demand.

Combine Shopify’s customer management system with our own backend OMS system (which includes order processing, inventory and supplier management) using Python, Postgresql, Javascript and SCSS

Manage a small team to create overall frontend and backend system design. Plan and work with frontend dev from developing frontend prototypes for site navigation, responsive layout, filtering, and etc to svg/angular/css implementation. Implement and set up testing environment to test portability and device-compatibility. Ensure dynamic layout, element visibility, component-to-size ratio, RGB colors are all correct. Conduct user-acceptance test to ensure ease of navigation.

Design database for customers, products and orders (using Elastic-search, MongoDB, PostgreSQL). Implement frontend and backend modules for authentication, cart system, sessions (NGRX global state) and order processing. Work with backend dev to create inventory, shipment and other backend modules with adequate unit-testing and system testing. Conduct system profiling, black-box and glass-box testing to ensure scalability.

Zig (open-source web framework for AI and MI applications); Uses Flask and Angular to create custom templating language and structure for AI web applications

Map scanning application that provides telegram notification. Run on AWS EC2, ASG and ALB. Provides hundreds of alerts per min for subscribers.

Gaming bot services for subscribers. Headless and multiprocessing setup on AWS with API Gateway.

Crypto and stock data cleaning and analysis projects

Several corporations side projects that involves building small library/module, simple website, OCR etc

kib@kishi.ai