Caleb Chiam
Senior Software Engineer at Open Government Products
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolCaleb Chiam is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building production-facing web and ML systems, currently leading AI-driven products for public services at Open Government Products in Singapore. He led Scribe, an AI note-taking tool that cut documentation time by over 40% and is now used across Singapore hospitals, and built Care360, a nationwide patient management system for medical social workers. Previously a founding engineer at Cleanlab, he took their flagship SaaS from prototype to paying users, and contributed robust back-end fixes to the widely used ConvoKit conversational NLP toolkit at Cornell. Caleb combines academic rigor from Stanford and Cornell with hands-on delivery across full-stack, data, and ML pipelines, and has a track record of shipping pragmatic tools that bridge research and real-world impact. An ex-Air Force operations specialist, he brings operational discipline and a knack for automating workflows that improve team effectiveness.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science (Honors) Mathematics and Government, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science (Honors) Mathematics and Government at Cornell UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
maintenance10
refactoring10
python10
refactor10
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CornellNLP/ConvoKit
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
ConvoKit is a toolkit for extracting conversational features and analyzing social phenomena in conversations. It includes several large conversational datasets along with scripts exemplifying the use of the toolkit on these datasets.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 62 reviews, 1003 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Caleb's commits primarily focused on refactoring and fixing issues in the ConvoKit library. The code changes involved modifying core components, such as hyperconvo and text processing, which likely involved improving the library's functionality, maintenance, and efficiency. The commits indicate a focus on ensuring the library's compatibility with existing datasets, and the fixes included type annotations to help prevent errors in the future.
nlpanalyzingconversationalconversational-aidataset
calebchiam/asr-react
Jun 2019 - Mar 2021
Automatic Speech Recognition React app using Mozilla Deepspeech
Contributions:22 commits, 7 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 9 months
mozilla-deepspeechreactreact-speech-recognitiondeepspeechspeech-to-text
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