Ch’ng Ming Shin

Education

August 2013 - Present:
National University of Singapore
Bachelor of Science with Honours – Applied Mathematics & Bachelor of Computer Science with Honours

Work Experiences

Jan ’16 – Dec ‘16’
National University of Singapore, Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant for CS1010S for two semesters on programming methodology
Instructed undergraduate class of ~16 students throughout each week by leading tutorials, holding consultations, fielding questions, and grading student submissions
Programming language used for the module was Python

May ’16 – Jul ‘16
Prudential plc, Data Technology Operations

Went through the systems development life cycle process of seeing through a work request to implement stored procedures using the Aginity Workbench for Neteeza to enhance Data Storage
Exposed to Hearsay Social and Value-Ad as well as using SAP Web Intelligence and generating Crystal Reports
Worked on a Thematic Project of managing an event of Terrarium Building, sourcing for suppliers and costing

Sept ’14 – Jan ‘15
National University of Singapore, Biomarkers Application Developer

Worked under the supervision of Dr. Tah Chuen Seng to develop an application using R to statistically analyse biomarkers
Developed UI to upload excel sheet of data to plot Boxplots, histograms and ROC curves and find AUC, as well as running logistic and multinomial regression to find a trend between biomarkers and disease using R

Projects

Jan ’17 – Present
TEAMMATES - National University of Singapore

Improved performance through reducing the number of queries made by Google App Engine as well as utilizing its task queue
Added new features
Ensured good code quality of the codebase by reviewing pull requests submitted

Jan ’17 – Present
WordPress-iOS

Raised inconsistencies between the iOS App and the Desktop App: Issue #6563, Issue #6415
Stripped HTML tags displayed in the UI: PR #6560, PR #6577
Correct minor typo: PR #6578
Add a confirmation alert when deleting post: PR #6416

May ’16 – Present
BoxTap

Designed and implemented a mobile action puzzle game on iOS, complete with 8 games modes and online high score
Built with Swift and MySQL and PHP

Jun ’15 – Oct ‘15
PearLove

Developed database and crawler infrastructure for outfit pairing web application targeted at the US market
Built with Python, Scrapy, MySQL and Cron

Hackathons

Aug ’16
KiloWatt

Developed an energy consumption analytics iOS application prototype as proof of concept for JTC Corporation to refurbish traditional energy meters for more efficient building management
Built with Swift, MySQL and PHP

Jun ‘16
HDB Cool Ideas Hackathon 2016, Best Use of Data

Designed and built a HTML5 web application to aid in identification of community leaders in neighbourhoods
Enhanced usefulness of physical human network information for grassroots leaders through digitisation
Built with CartoDB, Python and MySQL

Expert Areas

Swift

Wrote a book chapter about some cool features of Swift
Designed a simple iOS game, with multiple stages and keeps track of both local and online leaderboard
Contributed to WordPress-iOS
Gave a lightning talk about Automatic Reference Counting in Swift

Multi-Threading

Gave a lightning talk about threads and threadpools

Performance

Reduced queries made by Google App Engine and utilize its task queue
Remove auto-load of response rates when page is loaded

Technical Skills

Programming: Java, Python, Swift
Frameworks and Libraries: Scrapy, Android Development, iOS Development, CartoDB
Familiar with Cron, MySQL, PHP, R

Additional Information

Language proficiency: Bilingual, fluent in both English and Chinese (Mandarin)