Angela Sy
Chief Financial Officer at Focus Global Inc
Pasay, Philippines
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Top SchoolAngela Sy is a multifaceted technology and finance leader with 11 years of experience bridging AI, product engineering, and commercial strategy across Southeast Asia and Silicon Valley. As CFO of Focus Global she leads data-driven finance and scalable automation initiatives for a 30+ brand retail portfolio while also investing in and mentoring SEA tech founders as a General Partner at Vector. Previously she built and led AI teams at Skycatch, applying deep learning to 3D vision and industrial inspection, and has published in educational data mining and presented at Women in Machine Learning. A Stanford CS/Management Science & Engineering alum and former BASES co-president, she combines operator experience with startup-building chops—she’s launched food tech ventures, worked as a pastry chef in Florence, and still obsessively pursues croissants and noodles. Passionate about leveraging AI for social impact, Angela focuses on tech solutions that empower entrepreneurs and disadvantaged communities in emerging markets like the Philippines.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Salutatorian International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma, Salutatorian International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma at International School ManilaMaster’s Degree Management Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
Chinese, Tagalog, fukien chinese dialect, Italian
Github Skills (8)
recurrent-neural-networks8
csv4
deep-learning4
python2
machine-learning1
tensorflow1
react1
nvidia-jetson1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ange3/deepcode
Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
Deep learning using Recurrent Neural Networks on student code submissions; focusing on LSTMs to predict student success
Contributions:45 commits, 32 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
deep-learningrecurrent-neural-networks
ange3/scavenge
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:30 commits in 1 day
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