Johnson Foo

Shopee

Software Engineer Intern (Big Data) • June 2021 — Aug 2021

An 3 month long internship where I was learnt about HDFS and Presto architecture and their use cases inside Shopee’s data infrastructure. I managed to fix a HDFS Router bug on production where Router displayed wrong metadata information to clients. I also worked with teammates on reducing the max read time of Presto Worker on Datanode by adding load awareness on Namenode and caching of slow Datanodes on Presto Worker.

SeaMoney

Data Analytics Intern • Jan 2021 — May 2021

An 5 month long internship where I was tasked with generate data insights and business performance reports for crossfunctional teams (Business Intelligence & Business Development). I conducted deep dives into customer behaviour by using SQL for analysis. I also improved visibility for operations team in Indonesia by providing weekly analytics updates on debt recovery rate performance.

Singapore Airlines

Data Science Intern • Jun 2020 — Jul 2020

A 2 month long internship where I integrated a internal text detection model and open sourced OCR model with Python to read text in passport images. I also built a Flask web app as an interface for the integrated model to showcase a passport scanner prototype.

Nanyang Technological University

BSc, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence • Aug 2018 — May 2022

• Expected First Class Honours

The Data Science and Artificial Intelligence programme at NTU is a four-year direct honours programme specifically designed and offered in response to the rapidly developing field of data science and AI that is currently gaining unprecedented traction worldwide.

Programming Languages

Java, Python, SQL

Technologies

Linux, Git, AWS, Hadoop, Presto

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Tableau Desktop Specialist

Spoken Languages

English, Chinese, Malay