Benjamin Lau
Senior Data Scientist
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Lau is a Senior Data Scientist based in Singapore with a decade of experience building data-driven solutions and shaping enterprise AI strategy within a government statutory board. He has led cross-functional teams to deliver a secure, production-grade DS/AI platform on AWS in under a year and authored a 5-year architecture development plan to mature organizational AI capabilities. Comfortable bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders, he regularly reviews solution architectures for scalability, security, and policy alignment while guiding medical analytics and HR use cases from problem framing to delivery. Benjamin also runs a well-followed technical blog and organized a large national hackathon, demonstrating a knack for community outreach and talent development beyond his core engineering remit. His background in pharmacy and formal training via MITx’s Statistics and Data Science MicroMasters give him a unique blend of domain insight and rigorous statistical foundations.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Pharmacy - BPharm, Pharmacy, Honours (Highest Distinction), Bachelor of Pharmacy - BPharm, Pharmacy, Honours (Highest Distinction) at National University of SingaporeMicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science, MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science at MITx on edX
English, Chinese
Github Skills (30)
wallet10
netlify10
duke10
blockchain10
substrate9
polkadot-js9
polkadot9
staging8
tailwindcss7
typescript6
planetscale6
nextjs6
redis6
mysql6
clickhouse5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Pinknode/apps
Jun 2021 - Jul 2022
Basic Polkadot/Substrate UI for interacting with a node. This is the main user-facing application, allowing access to all features available on Substrate chains.
Contributions:18 PRs, 55 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year
substrateblockchainchainsparitypolkadot-js
NUSComputingDev/nuscomputing-website
Sep 2018 - Feb 2023
Please always look at the open PR to see what files are likely to be dirtied!
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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