About
Hey, I'm Joon, an Information Systems graduate from Singapore Management University.
My strongest edge sits at the intersection of technical depth and clear communication. I've found that great solutions often fail not because they're wrong, but because they're poorly explained. Whether working alongside engineers, pitching to investors, or building relationships with partners, I focus on translating complex ideas into narratives that are compelling, trustworthy, and easy to act on.
My background spans AI development, founding teams, GTM execution, and product work. Across these, the consistent thread has been bridging the gap between what's technically possible and what actually resonates with people, approaching challenges with first principles thinking, and seeing technical skills as tools to create impact rather than ends in themselves.
I'm fortunate to have built versatile perspectives through experiences spanning work, competitions, entrepreneurship, sports, and living overseas. I'm drawn to building things that matter and have long-term ambitions to grow, contribute, and eventually support others on their journeys.
Always building and tinkering, and open to opportunities where I can make an impact. Outside of work, I love a good run, swim, and conversation. Feel free to reach out.
Work Experience
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Automation Project Manager
@ TikTok Singapore
Feb 2026 to Mar 2026
Part of the Trust & Safety central automation team. Gained exposure to large-scale moderation infrastructure and at-scale AI operations.
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Product Engineer and Co-Founder
@ Shenzhen Zhiyin Accessibility Technology
Dec 2024 to Aug 2025
The company is an award-winning tech-based social enterprise based in Shenzhen, working on R&D of accessibility technologies for persons with disabilities.
Received an invitation from the founding team after an internship stint in Shenzhen, to lead and advance the flagship project on AR accessibility glasses for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community.Key contributions
- Worked alongside PhDs and engineers in prototyping and developing first-person sign language recognition systems and wearables
- Represented the company in presentations, pitching, competitions and exhibitions across China and Singapore
- Worked with target users to gather needs and requirements
- Company achievements during my stint included accolades, recognition from Tencent, and being shortlisted as finalist in the Chinese national Winning AI+ competition, gaining significant media coverage
Key takeaways
- Deep-dived into the startup and social entrepreneurship scene in China, with hands-on experience learning about the struggles, realities, and meaning of working on tech for social good
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Market Research Intern
@ Shenzhen VoyaWave Optics
May 2024 to Aug 2024
VoyaWave is a deep tech company based in Shenzhen focused on the R&D and production of photonics equipment. Overseas internship supported by the SMU Global Innovation and Immersion programme.
Key contributions
- Conducted market sizing and competitive analysis; delivered product positioning and GTM recommendations for the deep-tech photonics startup
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AI Software Development Intern
@ Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore
Dec 2023 to Apr 2024
Credit-bearing internship at the Government of Singapore ministry responsible for national security and public safety. Offered an extension on completion.
Key contributions
- Led end-to-end development of 3 GenAI application prototypes as intern project lead, owning technical scope, architecture, and deployment for evaluation
- Built an LLM-powered misinformation fact-checker achieving 90%+ accuracy, outperforming then-comparable commercial tools in internal benchmarks
- Designed and delivered department-wide AI training programme on prompt engineering and GenAI application development
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Technical Project Management Intern
@ YARA International
Jul 2022 to May 2023
Yara International is a Norwegian chemical company, one of the world's leading producers of mineral fertilizers. Part of the project management office evaluating digitalisation efforts and strategy.
Key contributions
- Led end-to-end delivery of a custom in-house low-code OKR platform to production, coordinating with developers to replace third-party tools, reduce costs, and drive adoption through documentation and user training
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Operations Intern
@ The Gym Pod Singapore
Feb 2021 to May 2021
The company uses automation technology to activate unutilised space and transform it into fitness amenities for the community.
Key contributions
- Part of a small team ensuring smooth daily operations of over 20 unmanned container gyms while rapidly scaling and expanding outlets across Singapore
- Led the development of operations SOP for franchisees
Education
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BSc Information Systems
@ Singapore Management University
Aug 2021 to Dec 2025
Highlights
- Captain, SMU Aquatic Sharks
- Member, SMU Aquathlon
- Represented in Inter-Varsity-Polytechnic and Singapore University Games swim meets. Aquathlon SUniG 2025 Men's team bronze
- Undergraduate research assistant
- Organising Committee, faculty freshman orientation camp 2022
- Member of Whitehats Society and Product Club (Product Management Experience Programme 2024)
- Global Innovation Immersion Programme 2024, overseas internship in Shenzhen, China
- Tolaram Global Innovation Immersion Award 2024, valued at $10,000
- Dell Cloud Native Award Finalist for Final Year Project 2025
- Business Innovations Generator Incubatee 2025
- Voluntary swim coach with the Special Olympics Singapore
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Exchange Student, Fall Semester
@ Norwegian School of Economics
Aug 2024 to Dec 2024
Highlights
- Modules: Norwegian language for foreign students, Commercialisation of innovations, Consumer behaviour, Management consulting
- Competed in the Bergen student games swim and BDO road relay race
Hackathons + Projects
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Movie / video auto-descriptor for blind audiences
@ Project for Shenzhen Qiming Accessibility Technology
2025
Shenzhen Qiming partners with major platforms like Tencent to make digital media more inclusive for the blind and visually impaired. Their core service involves producing audio descriptions - spoken narrations that describe on-screen visuals where subtitles or dialogue are insufficient. Because this process is largely manual, described movies remain scarce and costly to produce.
With advances in multimodal and video models, automation in this space is becoming increasingly viable. I designed and prototyped a system that:
鈻?Automatically segments videos into shorter, scene-level units, enabling precise targeting of sections that require description.
鈻?Augments each scene with contextual data (previous scenes, setting memory, character tracking) to improve model grounding and coherence.
鈻?Implements a layered LLM pipeline (draft 鈫?verify 鈫?refine) that systematically enhances the quality and accuracy of generated descriptions.Takeaways
- Extremely meaningful project. Optimistic that with continuous model improvements coupled with a smart pipeline, a fully automated solution will be achievable
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Runner-up, Dell Cloud Native Award
@ SMU SCIS Final Year Application Project 2025
2025
The Dell Technologies Academic Cloud Native Experience Award is given annually to the best project group in IS Application Project at SMU's School of Computing and Information Systems.
Details
- Worked in consultancy with Code for Singapore, a non-profit tech fellowship, to tackle the problem statement of phishing email detection and education
- Built ScamWise - a 2-pronged solution with a phishing detection browser extension and a learning platform. The extension detects and provides educational summaries and warnings to Gmail users in real-time, recording 96.67% detection accuracy and recall on phishing emails, both real and AI-generated
Takeaways
- Meaningful experience innovating to tackle the growing problem of phishing, invited back as project and pitching mentor
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Singaporean Finalist
@ Singapore-India G20 Hackathon
2023
A collaborative initiative between the governments of India and Singapore, designed to foster innovation and strengthen bilateral ties through technology and entrepreneurship.
Details
- Worked with the Monetary Authority of Singapore to tackle insider trading detection. Prototyped a solution using a retrospective approach combining news scraping, analytics, and trading data to identify abnormalities, gaining strong recognition from a panel of C-suite industry leaders
Takeaways
- One of the most memorable experiences - worked with talented teammates and mentors. Even got to see the Taj Mahal :)
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Category Finalist (Top 6)
@ SUTD What The Hack 2023
2023
A hardware and software hackathon held by SUTD where engineers, creators, and designers collaborate to build innovative solutions to real-world problems within 3 days.
Details
- Created SilverServant, a project to support elderly individuals living alone in Singapore. Combines a multilingual chatbot companion (Silver Friend) with NLP models detecting signs of depression or suicidal ideation, and a computer vision fall detection system
- More details: devpost.com/software/silverservant
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Top-50 Finalists
@ Huawei APAC Developer Competition 2023
2023
Huawei's flagship event for global ICT developers, aiming to foster innovation and promote an open cloud ecosystem.
Details
- Prototyped a camera wearable to help improve safety and quality of life for blind and visually-impaired users, featuring document reading, object finding, color detection, and scene description. Built before modern computer vision capabilities were in-built to large language models
- Demo: youtube.com/watch?v=w36txyOKNKA
Entrepreneurship
My attempts at commercialisation and building to scale
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Co-founder
@ SentinelTech
Dec 2024 to Jul 2025
An initiative with Shenzhen Zhiyin Accessibility to explore the opportunities and feasibility in spinning off its solutions from China into Singapore, while providing middle ground for cross-border incubation and support.
Incubated under the Singapore Management University's BIG programme and awarded acceleration grant funding.Key contributions
- Led market research and validation efforts in Singapore
- Engaged with stakeholders across disability organisations and government agencies
- Coordinated cross-border operations between China and Singapore teams
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Co-founder and Coach
@ The Swim Corner Singapore
Feb 2024 to Present
The Swim Corner provides quality consultancy, networking, and resources to help swim learners and coaches reach their fullest potential. If you're looking for quality swim coaches or are a coach yourself looking to offload administrative duties, reach out!
Key contributions
- Supporting operations and forming partnerships
- Automation and digitalisation of admin and client management
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Creator
@ Automation Bot Service
2021
I ran a bot service briefly where I helped clients automate and book contested facilities online, reducing manual work and ensuring fulfilment when stakes were high. Solved my own problem initially and decided it would benefit others while I could monetise it in the process. Marketed organically and reached 10 to 20 weekly users before discontinuing due to anti-bot implementations.
Personal Projects
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Waitlist Sites
2025
Built waitlist sites to illustrate product ideas, engage prospective users, and gauge interest. Currently shelved.
Details
- Platform for people and communities to play sports together: letsplaypal.com
- Professional online presence for solopreneurs: getfrontt.com
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Stocks Laggard Screener
2024
Built to test a hypothesis about the laggard strategy: that when a leading stock rallies or crashes, certain lagging stocks tend to move predictably afterward. The dashboard visualises and backtests these relationships, showing recommended buy and short opportunities, expected returns, win rates, and performance across different holding periods.
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Automated Fact-Checker
2024
Detects and flags inconclusive, unsubstantiated, or dubious information in input statements or documents. Fact-checking is done via web-search with a consensus and reranking algorithm that prioritises more credible and reliable sources in decision-making.
Details
- Performance and accuracy at the point of testing outperformed existing commercial solutions and then-top models like ChatGPT and Bing real-time search
- Built before web-browsing capabilities became mainstream and in-built in LLMs
- Received funding interest and angel interest
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Sources and Citations Machine
2024
A tool to empower users in writing and research by automatically aggregating and analysing sources for statements and claims that matter.
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Telegram Trading Signals Bot
2022
Built to test a predefined trading strategy that automates stock analysis and performance tracking. The bot (stonksbot) retrieves historical data to calculate trade performance over different holding periods, showing metrics like win rate, cumulative gains, and losses. Also identifies key technical levels such as support and resistance to help visualise market trends and potential entry or exit points.
Extracurricular
Sports, volunteering and other experiences that have left a lasting impact on me.
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SMU Varsity Swim Team
2021 to 2024
Joined the varsity swim team in university, trained alongside competitive teammates, and went from a non-swimmer to semi-competitive and captaining the team in my second year. Never too late to pick up something new.
Details
- Served as Team Captain and Operations Deputy
- Represented in various inter-varsity swim meets
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Voluntary Swim Coach - Special Olympics Singapore
2024
Partnered with the Special Olympics Singapore to volunteer as swimming coaches to children with special needs - a meaningful way to use acquired skills for community impact.
Details
- Provided weekly swimming lessons to children with special needs
- Co-initiated and organised a successful fundraiser in partnership with the SMU varsity swim team, encouraging participants to swim for a good cause
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SMU Aquathlon
2025
Joined the aquathlon team in my senior years, training alongside motivated individuals passionate about this multi-sport.
Details
- Competed in the 2025 Singapore University Games - Men's team clinched bronze