Hello! My name is Chin Hwee, and my day job is a Data Engineer at a government-linked corporation in Singapore (so technically ah-gong keeps me off the streets).
My background is not in Computer Science (I could have switched majors, but I really love studying aerodynamics and aircraft propulsion too), but I’ve been relying on writing codes on-and-off to get myself through coursework since 9 years ago. I enjoy writing code and making my codes work, ‘cos bugs are common and solving bugs helps keep my potentially-dangerous perfectionistic thoughts at bay.
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My personal interests range from aviation to music. I am also interested in photography, travel, and innovation.
I’m currently learning how to make my Python codes run faster so that I can have more time to focus on machine learning. I enjoy having deep-dive discussions on how to make the world a better place through technology and human intelligence.
My goal for 2020 is to:
Speak at a headliner tech conference in Asia- Update 2020-01-16: Goal achieved - I will be speaking at FOSSASIA Summit 2020 in Singapore, which is on 19 - 22 March 2020. More details on discount code for community and social event tickets will be released when I receive the details.
- Update 2020-02-29: Get your discounted FOSSASIA Summit 2020 tickets at 25% off here!
- Speak at a tech conference outside of Asia (preferably in Europe and/or North America)
- Deliver talks in at least 4 tech conferences locally and internationally
- Enhance my Github portfolio
- Write more tech posts to document my learning journey and (hopefully) share with more people
- Make more regular updates to my TIL blog, which is built using Pelican
- Make at least 4 Pull Requests on open-source projects
My goals for 2019 was to:
Speak at a tech meetup(and hope my reputation in the tech community does not go down the drain)- Update 2019-09-01: Goal achieved - I did my first-ever public tech meetup talk on 27th August 2019, and over 100 people attended my talk (a larger turnout than usual). Reflection on talk here.
- Build up my Github portfolio
- I uploaded more repositories on Github, filed issues on BigDataX workshop repos, and even made a pull request on pandas-dev!
- Write more tech posts to document my learning journey and (hopefully) share with more people
Speak at a tech conference so that I can share what I’ve learnt with even more people- Update 2019-08-22: I will be speaking at Women Who Code CONNECT Asia 2019 in Singapore on 31st August 2019. See you there!
- Update 2019-09-01: Goal achieved - I delivered my first-ever conference talk on 31st August 2019. Reflection on talk here
Make my first Pull Request on an open-source project- Update 2020-01-03: Goal achieved My first pull request on pandas 1.0 was merged!
Talks
I stumbled into public speaking when I attended Singapore Global CFP Diversity Day in March 2019, and subsequently got my first CFP submission accepted a few months later. Since then, I have spoken at various meetups and conferences locally and internationally on a variety of topics including data processing, parallel and asynchronous programming and contributing to the open source community.
One of my speaking goals in 2020 is to speak at a tech conference outside of Asia. Invite me to your conference in 2020!
More details on my speaking here
Selected Talks and Media Features
- Making Open Weather Data More Accessible: Extracting Seasonal Insights from Singapore Weather Station Data at OpenUP Global Summit 2019
- Recording courtesy of Open UP Summit
- How to Make Your Data Processing Faster: Parallel Processing and JIT in Data Science at Women Who Code CONNECT Asia 2019
- Recording courtesy of Engineers.SG
- pandanistas - Interview with Ong Chin Hwee