The Working Culture at Shopee SG, My Reflection of the Year 2021 & My Career Plan for the Year 2022 —

Tips: Resume & Cover Letter Preparation → Coding Test → Manager Interviews → Landing the Offer! — Hi! I’m Desmond 😄, a Data Scientist (Machine Learning Framework & Infra) in Shopee Singapore. I graduated from the University of Malaya’s Bachelor of Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence). …

Beware — A machine learning engineer could easily inject a backdoor in your machine learning model! Here’s how (with codes)! — Note: This post is for educational purposes only. In this post, I would first explain what is a “backdoor” in machine learning. Then, we would learn how to build our own backdoor model in Google Colab. (Don’t worry, it’s just a simple image recognition model that can be trained in…

A cheat sheet for busy ML practitioners who need to run numerous modeling experiments quickly in a tidy Jupyter workspace. — “Modularising” your code is hard in machine learning projects Unlike in the software world, the term “reusable component” can be hard to apply in the modeling world. Experiments are often one-off, and not many codes were reused. …

Right after I finished my final Bachelor of Computer Science exams in University of Malaya in Malaysia, I moved to Singapore to work in National University of Singapore as a Research Assistant. I’ve been working for 2 months now (as of May 2020). …

A detailed post & the template codes — just copy, paste, and edit! As we all know, visitor traffic is a huge concern for anyone building a website. The amount of traffic can directly influence the revenue a website can generate from monetization. …

Key takeaways: The exact step-by-step tutorial I have used to find sponsorships for the competition. Links to the templates I’ve used, including a cold calling script, Google Sheets record, an email template, and a sponsorship proposal. Some tips to raise money, based on my 3-time-experience in finding sponsors for events. The Event — Programming League In the…

IMHO, to be a good programmer, it’s necessary to have an in-depth understanding of the 3 milestones of programming. While these milestones can take up some time to wrap our heads around, they unlock new abilities to optimize our programs and open up better job opportunities. On a side note…

Yep, I’ve been to Silicon Valley for a week — and I’ve always wanted to write and share this story. #Throwback During my Form 4, back in 2014, I participated in D-CODE — a hackathon-like competition organised by StartupMalaysia. The champion prize was a trip to Silicon Valley and it…