Ngo Jun Hao Jason

Education

Nanyang Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

Aug 2017 - May 2021

  • Elective Focus: Artificial Intelligence
  • Minor: Psychology
  • GPA: 4.46 / 5.00

Georgia Institute of Technology

Master of Science in Computer Science

Jan 2023 - May 2024, Aug 2026 - Present

  • Specialisation: TBD
  • GPA: 4.00 / 4.00

Academic Projects

Nanyang Technological University

Undergraduate Research on Campus

Aug 2018 - Jul 2019

An Augmented Virtuality Approach To 3D Videoconferencing

  • Created a proof-of-concept for a 3D meeting app in Unity by applying concepts of narrowcasting

Nanyang Technological University x OmniVision Technologies

Joint Industry Final Year Project

Aug 2020 - Jun 2021

Deep Learning Based Car License Plate Recognition

  • Fine-tuned a license plate detector (LFFD) with MXNet to get an average precision of 96.9% at an IOU threshold of 0.7
  • Improved upon a license plate recognizer (LPRNet) using Tensorflow to reach an accuracy of 97.2%
  • Combined the license plate detector and recognizer, resulting in a lightweight and fast license plate recognition system with an accuracy of 96.1%

Internships

OmniVision Technologies

Computer Vision Intern

Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

  • Built a website with Django that displays bounding boxes to aid the computer vision team in qualitative analysis of object detection models
  • Deployed aforementioned website on an on-premise Nginx server
  • Sped up the collection and pre-processing of more than 10000 images using Python scripts

Aural-Aid

Software Development Intern

May 2020 - Jul 2020

  • Contributed to the development of a website ( autoscrape.com ) built in Django that aids in lead generation
  • Developed a prototype mobile app that controls iris doors remotely using Flutter and AWS (EC2 and Lambda)

Industry Experience

DBS

Software Engineer

Jul 2021 - Aug 2023

  • Created and enhanced APIs of several Spring Boot microservices for a customer relationship management website (Client Connect) that supplements the interactions between relationship managers and customers
  • Used React to develop the UI of a financial modelling website (CLOVERS) as a proof-of-concept, intended to replace weeks of manual input in Excel spreadsheets with a few minutes of form submission
  • Worked with site reliability engineers to set up CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins for multiple projects, replacing time-consuming manual checks with automatic stages
  • Instilled a culture of documentation, reducing time spent on knowledge transfer and key person risk
  • Onboarded several newcomers, helping them to get familiar with the code base and coding standards

Grantbii (WIP)

Product Engineer

Mar 2025 - July 2026

  • Developed an admin console with NextJS, FastAPI and Postgres that allows grant researchers to easily add business grants to the grant directory
  • Integrated Voyage AI's multimodal embeddings and reranker with Postgres' pgvector to build a grant matching engine that finds the most relevant grants by ingesting project documents
  • Implemented Retrieval Augmented Generation in a low-latency, low-cost fashion by using OpenAI's gpt-4.1-mini to generate explanations of why certain grants are good matches for a given project
  • Created simple CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, AWS Amplify and AWS App Runner to reduce toil and human errors in testing and deployment

Freelance Consulting

Haast River Motels & Holiday Park

Apr 2024

Gravity Nelson

May 2024

  • Used Zapier to automate the generation of custom manifests in Google Sheets from FareHarbor bookings as efficiently as possible, reducing up to 10 minutes of paperwork per booking

Kakapo Lodge

Jun 2024 - Sep 2024

  • Rebuilt the website ( kakapolodge.co.nz ) with more features using NextJS
  • Saved around $3000 in unnecessary subscription fees annually via new websites and tech advice

Hanmer Woolshed

Jun 2024 - Sep 2024

  • Rebuilt defunct website ( hanmerwoolshed.co.nz ) using Shopify, resulting in first online sales that made up 20% of revenue and expanding the business' reach beyond domestic market

Hanmer Springs Foodways

Jun 2024 - Sep 2024

  • Developed landing page ( hanmerfoodway.co.nz ) with NextJS
  • Generated inventory listings with the aid of Python scripts to avoid hours of manual effort

Som Tam

Sep 2024 - Oct 2024

  • Built simple and clean website ( somtam.nz ) with low ongoing costs using HTML, CSS and JavaScript

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