Tender Poet Tech

singaporean.mundane.existential.tech.poetry.arts

  • About

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    Born and raised in Singapore, a left-hander at birth and trained to write with my right, now I write with both hands. I speak Singlish fluently, love art, technology and architecture.

     

    I work as an engineer in a company based in Singapore. I still wonder why this universe is made of science and not magic, it will be nice, for example, to be a wizard working in a local magical systems integrator, selling wands with 3 year warranty, extendable to 5, of course.

     

    Nevertheless, technology has been good to me, I like doing my stuff with coffee. Drop me message if you think I can sort out your problems, I'll be glad to help.

     

    I do not believe we are alone. Neither do I believe pyramids are just graves. However, I do believe Lunarin is one of the best bands out there.

     

    I deal with existential questions once a while, e.g. what my legacy will be, and I hope whatever I do in my lifetime can change the world, or at least, my family, for the better. If I can leave a message for my descendants, I want them to live a full life by doing what they love, do what is right, stand up against oppressing zeitgeists, help prevent global warming, and never stop dreaming about colonising space.

     

    If they can do that, awesome! But even if they don't, that's ok, as they say, "Always reach for the stars, even if you don't make it, at least you'll land amongst the clouds."

    Hobbies

    I enjoy reading, looking at paintings and photographs. I used to play video games a lot, now sticking to just Killing Floor 2. Music is important to me, every life experience is more meaningful with music.

  • "To every man upon this earth
    Death cometh soon or late.
    And how can man die better
    Than facing fearful odds,
    For the ashes of his fathers,
    And the temples of his Gods."

    Lays of Ancient Rome

  • Job History

    My CV is simple; no more than one page. But here, I can go into certain details, ones that mean a lot to me.

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    Senior Systems Engineer

    www.a-star.edu.sg/gis
    Jan 2016 - Current | Singapore

    Manages High Performance Computing cluster over at Genome Institute of Singapore. 

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    Senior Post Sales Engineer

    www.swiftserve.com

    September 2014 - Jan 2016 | Singapore

    Provide post sales support for both various SwiftServe products in various geographical regions -

    • Study state of network in various regions.
    • Assist resellers/partners/customers in solving various technical issues as well as fine-tune caches to suit unique regional situations.

    Perform provisioning, monitoring and administrative work on CDN infrastructure.

    Accelerate SwiftCache supply chain using PXE-Kickstart and Ansible.

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    Business Support Engineer

    www.ffayth.com

    January 2011 – ∞ | Singapore

    Started off as solutions architect for local fashion startup, responsible for identifying IT services business requires and providing solutions/avenues with high deployment speed and low operation costs/effort.

     

    Primary role in identifying web marketing and appropriate avenues of showcasing products and e-commerce avenues. Assists in sales and marketing efforts at trade fairs.

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    Senior Systems Engineer

    Shanda Games International / Cherry Credits Pte Ltd

    January 2012 – August 2014 | Singapore

    Senior engineer in desktop and mobile games and web team responsible for leveraging on existing hardware, and provide frugal solutions based on commodity hardware and open-source software for Shanda Games International.

     

    Primary engineer for multiple services, comprising of ~200 hosts of Linux and Windows platforms. Provide training and orientation for incoming engineers and associate engineers.

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    IT Network Engineer

    SingTel

    January 2008 – December 2011 | Singapore

    Primary engineer in web team responsible for managing various SingTel web services. Collaborated with various digital media agencies in providing infrastructure for establishing branding presence online.

     

    Participated in planning and deployment of infrastructure for major SingTel branding initiatives for consumer and business groups during that period of time.

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    Asiasoft Online

    2007 - 2007 | Singapore

    Provided expertise in the deployment and management of desktop game services for AsiaSoft Online. Part of operations team providing operation support to ensure services are up and running. Provide training and orientation for incoming engineers and associate engineers.

  • Projects

    Here are some of the noteworthy projects which I have taken part in.

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    Operations Lead

    SDGO is a third person pvp shooting game, players are pilots who owns an assortment of Gundam Mobile Suits.

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    Deployment and Operations Lead

    Million Arthur is a mobile game, players are potential King Arthurs who battle using cards to be the sole ruler of Britain.

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    Deployment and Operations Lead

    Avatar star is a third person pvp shooting game. Developed by Pearl Digital, Cherry Credits is the first in the world outside China to publish this game service.

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    Operations Engineer

    Dragon Nest is an mmorpg. Players take part in a never-ending fight against evil in this fantasy world of dragons, goblins and great loot.

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    Infrastructure Engineer

    Cherry Chat is Cherry Credits' first in-house developed mobile messaging application. Players can integrate this app with the different mobile games published by Cherry Credits to keep in touch with friends playing the same game and enjoy a more complete gaming experience.

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    Infrastructure Engineer / Sysadmin

    Took part in a number of projects including:

    1. www.singtelfootballfrenzy.com - SingTel's first online streaming service for EPL since winning broadcast rights in Singapore.

    2. www.singtel.com/yog - SingTel's online streaming site for all competitions for World's first Youth Olympic Games held in Singapore.

    3. www.singtelrace.com (2008 to 2012) - Microsite of Singapore's first F1 race first held in Singapore on 2008, stayed on in the project for another 3 years.

    4. www.singtel.com revamp - Sysadmin role for project team for the new singtel.com website as it was revamped to reflect the new organisation structure and business strategy as SingTel transforms from a service provider to content provider/platform.

    5. www.singtel.com/iphone launches (2009 to 2012) - Microsite for SingTel as it gains exclusive rights to sell the iPhone.

    6. www.singtelamped.com - SingTel's first music streaming service.

  • Skills or services

    I deal with Linux a lot more comfortably than Windows.

     

    I like to see what the business needs and solve them with technology, I'm particularly happy with the work done on identifying essential cloud-based office and internet services needed for www.ffayth.com to start operations. I also love automating deployment and provisioning processes.

     

    I'm particularly interested on working with:

    1. Salt, Ansible and other CM tools

    2. Openstack

    3. Python

    4. DevOps

    5. Site Reliability Engineering

    From simple advice to deep, tough deployments/configurations problems, if you think I can help, drop me a message, if I can help, you'll be the first to know.

  • Contacts

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    Linkedin

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    Github

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