Arka Ray
Acting Head, Deployment, LLM LMM AI R&D Team at HTX (Home Team Science & Technology Agency)
Singapore
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Top SchoolArka Ray is an engineering leader with nine years of hands-on experience building and deploying AI and web automation systems, now serving as Acting Head of Deployment for the LLM/LMM AI R&D team at HTX in Singapore. He combines a self-taught developer mindset with formal engineering training, shipping applied research in few-shot learning, NLP, large-scale web mining and API-driven automation. Arka has progressed internally from engineer to lead and now team head, balancing technical delivery with mentoring and people management. His background spans product-focused internships, energy and space-policy projects, and co-founding an EdTech startup, reflecting a knack for translating research into operational systems and policy insights. Comfortable in cross-disciplinary settings, he pairs experimental curiosity—like learning through real mistakes such as accidentally publishing an API key—with disciplined project execution. Collected experiences in research, prototyping and stakeholder engagement make him adept at moving AI proofs-of-concept into production at scale.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Israel Programme, Batch 17, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Israel Programme, Batch 17, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at NUS Overseas CollegesVenture Creation Course, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Venture Creation Course, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Reichman UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) with 2nd Major in Innovation and Design, Environmental Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) with 2nd Major in Innovation and Design, Environmental Engineering at National University of Singapore
Hindi, Bengali, English
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rayarka/zoom-background
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
rayarka/EG3301R_Data_and_Programs
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 months
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