3 Things I Had Learnt?
- Take it Easy and Not at the Cost of Your Sanity - I was kind of burned out in my job search & my first module for my master, i believe it’s partly because of my dwindling saving since i started the job search journey in March. It doesn’t really help since I had tons of anxiety, doing my first master course that i failed incorporating it as part of my schedule, the experience is still worth it but my next attempt shall be smarter when i attempt it again in Summer next year. A friend of mine, she heard of what i had been through this year, she just gave me the suggestion to just take it easy due to the amount of balls i had been juggling from my end this year. Along with making decisions that i didn’t really prepare myself to make at my age again. Momento Mori
- Continue to Bet on Myself Despite Temporary Obstacles - My job search was hard like last year. This doesn’t make it easier since i still suck at doing leetcode type questions and i had been grinding hard on leetcode, preparing for my masters, upgrading my skills, knowleadge & experience in AI, I still fail in a lot of initial technical tests for my job interviews. This doesn’t help much in not being given a chance to prove myself without even going through the first round of a interview.
- Follow Your Curiosity - I had always had a interest in the AI especially swarm intelligence because of this ted talk, till this day the video blows my mind. But i choose to chuck this aside while doing my best to tap on the pulse of AI development. But the high barrier of entry to break into the field and my distaste in both math and academia kept me from pursuing. This only changed last year with my strong dream in my mind to immigrate to another country to do homestead. Therefore, I took multi steps this year towards that direction as well as taking on leadership positions for more impact. Initially it started off small like applying for masters, learning MLOps & Math course from DeepLearning.AI, followed by Project Management from Google. It ended me being burnout from my first module which is “Robotics: AI Techniques” for my master’s programme. This eventually lead me to taking on a my current job as a software team leader at Asus Singapore Design Center due to my curiosity.
Career
- Completed “Machine Learning Engineering for Production (MLOps)” by DeepLearning AI
- Completed “**Google Project Management” by Google**
- Being a one of the many judges at Hack & Roll 2024
- Became a mentor at Hack Singapore 2024, which 2 of the mentored teams won in a few categories
- Coffee sessions to talk about my career through my friends in the industry and my direct supervisor.
- Completed my 6 months contract at Airbus. - I learned about French corporate working culture, working in digital team that is cross domain, worked with LLM & AI related work through their data lake called “Skywise”
- Started my new job as a Software Team Leader at Singapore Asus Design Center this month.
- Continue to use and play around with anthropic’s claude because of the AI capabilities in software development and their mission which resonates with me.
Education
- Became Graduate Student in the Fall 2024 at **Georgia Institute of Technology** and attended my first networking session for the Singapore chapter
- Was promoted to 2nd Stripe White Belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), reading books namely “Meditations on Violence” and “The Gift of Violence" to prepare for Shit Hits the Fan (SHTF) situations with bare mimum to talk my way out or descalate potential violent or stressful situations.
- Learnt about bushcrafting, cooking in the fields (trained to don’t start a fire during my military service, old habits just die hard. 🙂**)** and updating my skills on survival & land navigation that I had picked up from my military service. I applied these skills with my new gear for my solo camping trip for 3 days 2 nights in Mamam campsite at Pulau Ubin. I even crafted a wooden spear from scratch using my new morakniv knife. I practiced swinging the wooden stick/spear around. It was fun despite the camping experience was quite tiring with tons of rain while figuring my new gear in Pulau Ubin.
- Had a interest in learning Latin due to it’s benefit in learning other languages as well as allowing me to look at the original text in tough fields like Law, Medicine and Science. i just brought “**Familia Romana (Lingua Latina Book 1)”. I had a headache in trying to read it since the whole book was pure latin.** I know, I’m just spartan in that aspect, but alot of people says it’s a good book to start as it’s progressive in nature.
- Brought and completed reading “The Hacking for Defense Manual” due to me following Steve Blank for his work for the startup ecosystem in american and Hack for Defense (H4D) over the years. His article his deep dive on “The Semiconductor Ecosystem” was pretty good.
- I recently learned o farm a Fish/Crab in a HDB since i wanted to learn to farm as my goal to live self sustaining life with high quality food in a homestead. I took the course from OnHand Agrarian and also paid for the scam plan that rears 4 crabs for 2 years.