YC
About Me
Yong Cheng Low
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
"Using modern day technologies to improve the lives of others"
Data & Software Engineer at National University Hospital
Singapore
- Built proof-of-concept AI projects, including a Speech-to-Speech agent for PROMS collection using AWS Nova Sonic 2 and GPT Realtime
- Contributed to cluster-level initiatives in automatic speech recognition and medical coding to improve workforce efficiency
- Established the office's engineering foundations, including repository setup, CI/CD pipelines, observability stack (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus), Helm chart configuration, and internal documentation via Docusaurus
Skills: Python, Go, AWS, Next.js, Open Telemetry, Terraform, Kubernetes, LLMs
Senior Software Engineer at Glints
Singapore
- Designed and implemented an automated multilingual resume parsing workflow using OpenAI APIs, achieving over 90% accuracy across all data points
- Developed a multilingual job role inference system using open source NLPs from job titles and work experience, attaining over 90% accuracy
- Setup of Dashboards and Alerting system to catch and report incidents, system performance and suspicious activities reducing mean time to restore (MTTR) to within 2 hours
- Automating workflow processes to increase workplace productivity through Jira, Gitlab, Lark, Anycross for QA, Project Tracking, Code Reviews, Bugs Reporting saving over 150 engineering hours per year
- Maintained and improved the Kafka pipelines using Scala to deliver real-time updates to the Elasticsearch index
- Worked on the migration of the Managed Talent Platform from Rust to Go and deliver improvements to existing platform features
Skills: Python, Go, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenAI API, LLMs
Web Software Engineer at Glints
Singapore
- Collaborated with the Product, Designers, and other Engineers to deliver a recruiter-centric product
- Translated designs into functional and responsive web applications to ensure a seamless user experience achieving a median CES of 8/10
- Ensured the scalability and reliability of the web application by implementing best practices and regularly testing for bugs and issues achieving an uptime of over 99%
- Maintained and enhanced the recruiter's search engine by incorporating new features such as boolean search, enabling efficient candidate filtering sourcing 30% of monthly matches
Skills: Elasticsearch, Grafana, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, TypeScript
Web Development Teacher at Le Wagon
Singapore
- Delivered an immersive web development course that equips over 100 beginners and career switches with the skills to become junior software developers
- Guided students in building over 25 robust and user-friendly software applications
- Achieved a high student satisfaction and completion rate with a NPS score of 82.7
Skills: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Teaching, Mentoring
Software Engineer at NCS (IOT Defence)
Singapore
- Implemented a secure API Gateway for an IoT project, facilitating seamless data transfer between different micro-services using Java Spring Boot
- Collaborated on the development of a Screen Lock Mobile Application that allows the mobile phone to have 3FA security through Yubikey, Password and Lockscreen Pattern
- Assisted with the frontend development of the web application using Angular to ensure seamless integration of features and optimal user experience
Skills: Java, Kubernetes, Angular, Docker, Spring Boot
NUS Computer Engineering (Bachelor with Honours)
Singapore
Graduated NUS Computer Engineering with Honours (Merit). Concentration in Interactive Digital Media, Minor in Interactive Media Development.
- President of NUS Student's Sports Club 39th Management Committee
- Vice Project Director of NUS Biathlon 2018
- Vice President of Human Resource and Development 19th Management Committee
National Service — Guards Unit
Singapore
Returned to Singapore alone for National Service. Posted to the Guards unit, which taught me resilience and the spirit of Always Ready, Ready to Strike.
- Guard Unit 16th Mono GPMG Commander
- Specialist Command School
- BMTC Viper Company
Sha Tin College — IB Diploma
Hong Kong
Obtained 35 points at Sha Tin College for the IB Diploma Programme (Bilingual)
- Hong Kong School Sports Federation Badminton Bronze Group (3rd Place)
- Hong Kong School Sports Federations Boys A Grade (Champions)
- Hot Hoops (Most Inspirational Player)
- Hot Hoops 5 on 5 (2nd Place)
Dulwich College Shanghai — IGCSE
Shanghai, China
Obtained 7A*, 1A, 1B, 1C at Dulwich College Shanghai
- ACAMIS Division 2 Badminton (3rd Place)
- ACAMIS Badminton Division 1 (7th Place)
- Dulwich Open Badminton Boys Singles Champion 2 years in a row
- ACAMIS Boys (All-Star)
- ACAMIS Boys Basketball Division 2 (Champions)
- ACAMIS Basketball Division 2 (3rd Place)
Shanghai Community International School
Shanghai, China
Moved to Shanghai and studied at Shanghai Community International School
- CISSA Swimming Participation Award
- CISSA Badminton Participation Award
- CISSA Boys Soccer Participation
- SCIS Invention Convention
- Most Outstanding Student at Children's Palace
Mayflower Primary School
Singapore
Help me instilled the motto "Service before Self", shaping my belief that others' priorities come first.
- Mayflower Primary School Primary Two Best Conduct Award
- Lower Primary Sports Day Primary Two (2nd Place)
- Lower Primary Sports Day Primary One (Champion)