Loh Jia Shun, Kenneth

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EDUCATION

National University of Singapore (Aug 2015 - May 2019)

Bachelor of Computing (Honours).
GPA of 4.83 (Year 2).
Awarded the National Infocomm Scholarship (NIS) by IDA.

NUS High School of Mathematics and Science (Jan 2009 - Nov 2012)

NUS High School Diploma (Distinction) with Honours in Mathematics, and Majors in Chemistry and Physics.
A-level equivalent.
Graduated with a CAP of 4.2.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Lomotif (Nov 2016 – Present)

Lomotif develops an app by the same name. The app is an editor for making music montages for social media, as well as a platform for sharing these videos. It has 4.5 million downloads as of end 2016.

Introduced various machine learning concepts as well as recommender systems to the engineering team.
Designed a series of experiments and recommender systems for Lomotif to incrementally adapt to recommend videos to users.
Currently working part time to run live experiments on their data, and tweaking the recommendation systems.
ECS Holdsings Limited, Intern (May 2015 – Nov 2015)

ECS is a leading IT infrastructure and services provider, offering professional, technical and training services.
Modified an open-source program (CURA) to be compatible with ECS’s in-house 3D printers.
Created a visualizer in C# for interpreting G-code formats used by 3D printers.
Developed programs for ECS’s clients such as employee management tools and database manipulation.
Teaching Assistant (Jun 2016 – Present)

Developing an e-learning resource for an accountancy module within NUS.
Collaborating with a professor and a team of 5 other students.
Building a website and gamification system to facilitate understanding of the module.

Organizational/Committee Experience

Organizing committee for School of Computing’s orientation camp with over 90 freshmen.
Responsible for logistics such as food catering, camp apparel and facilitation of activities.

Company Specialist in BMT (Sep 2013 – Mar 2015)

Enthusiastic in taking care of and teaching newly-enlisted recruits for their first 2-4 months in army.
Created macros and Microsoft Excel formulas that automated admin work such as detailing, IPPT score tabulations and printing of ammunition forms. These were also submitted as 4 separate Work Improvement Team Scheme (WITS) projects.
Extended my NS by 3 months under OC’s approval.

Skills / Achievements

Fluent in Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, VB and VB.Net.
Experienced with HTML, CSS and SQL.
SAP Certified Associate: Successfully completed a 2-weeks course in Business Process Integration with SAP ERP 6.0 EhP6.
Pursued an interest in game development through the creation of an MMORPG server with a team of 1 other coder and 3 content developers over the course of two years on online collaborative tools. The game brought in approximately $1000 USD in revenue.
Took part in various hackathons such as the Facebook Singapore Hackathon (Sep 2016), NUS Hack & Roll (Jan 2016) and DBS Digital Game Jam (Dec 2015).
Enrolled in and completed 15 courses on Coursera, with topics ranging from business and leadership to data mining and machine learning.

Contributions to Open-source Projects

Powerpoint Labs

Powerpoint Labs is a plug-in for Microsoft Powerpoint with over 300,000 users. It has a variety of features enabling users to create engaging visuals for slides with ease.

Effectively managed the overall development of the project for 4 months.
Contributed the “Sync Labs” feature with another developer.
Fixed various bugs.

Free Code Camp

Free Code Camp is an open-source codebase and curriculum which teaches people various aspects of software engineering and development, such as HTML, Javascript, JQuery, React, and full-stack development.

Fixed various bugs and features in Javascript [link] [link] [link]

Learning Resources for Software Engineering Students

An open-source repository of learning resources to help students of all expertise with improving their software engineering skills.

Contributed a chapter on scalable development [link]