About Me

As a labour economist at the central bank, I quickly noticed the role of programming in future jobs. I use self-taught programming skills at my job and landed a data scientist contract at a health start-up. My coding classes convert these practical experiences into simple bite-sized and fun project-based learning. My goal is to get kids excited about the limitless opportunities with coding skills.

Work Portfolio

Founder and Tutor at Build A Code (2020 – present)

  • Provide online and face-to-face computer programming tutoring services to children and young adults that emphasizes on real-world applications of coding skills.

Economist at Bank Negara Malaysia (2017 – present)

  • Specialisation in Malaysia’s labour market. Published several research articles (e.g. “Are Malaysians Paid Fairly”) featured in newspaper headlines and sparked public discussion among ministries, employers and workers.
  • Oversee econometric and statistical models in the Economics Department. Developed and coded various models and applied data science techniques to inform policy work, presenting them to the Governor.

Data Science Contractor at Naluri Life (2019)

  • Built an image recognition programme with Python to recognise food from user images and map it to key nutritional values and user-specified target intakes. This can provide real-time advice on how they can hit their daily/weekly intake targets.

Education and Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Economics from University of Warwick, UK (2014-2017)

  • Graduated with First Class Honours.

Cambridge A-Levels from Taylors College, Malaysia (2013-2014)

  • 4A* – Further Mathematics 92, Mathematics 98, Physics 93, Economics 92,

Various Data Science, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Courses

  • UCSanDiego’s Python for Data Science.
  • Udemy’s Data Science, Machine Learning and Deep Learning A-Z courses.