Darren Wee
Sr. Solutions Engineer at Databricks
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Wee is a seasoned Sr. Solutions Engineer with a decade of experience applying data science and economics to build enterprise AI and analytics solutions across industries from adtech to government. He led GenAI and ML initiatives at CapitaLand—delivering products like an internal GPT chatbot and an AI travel assistant—while partnering with Microsoft on Azure OpenAI and LangChain-based RAG architectures. Comfortable shipping production systems, he has hands-on experience in forecasting, optimization, and recommendation models and has modernized legacy codebases using Java 8 streams and java.time APIs. His open-source contributions include improving the UX of the popular hub CLI and modernizing the TEAMMATES education feedback project, reflecting a mix of backend tooling and full-stack refactors. Known as a pragmatic team leader and fast learner, he blends business intuition from an Economics background with technical depth from an MTech in AI systems. Based in Singapore, he seeks challenging problems that turn complex datasets into actionable strategy and tangible impact.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Data science and analytics, Economics, Data science and analytics at Singapore Management UniversityMaster of Technology in Artificial Intelligent Systems, Master of Technology in Artificial Intelligent Systems at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (21)
command-line-interface10
java10
javas10
go10
teammates10
command-line10
functional-programming10
api-design9
restful-api9
javascript9
api-rest9
github-api9
angular9
rest-api9
git8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TEAMMATES/teammates
Dec 2017 - Feb 2019
This is the project website for the TEAMMATES feedback management tool for education
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 45 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Darren primarily refactored and modernized the codebase by migrating existing code to use Java 8 streams and functional programming paradigms. This involved updating various utility classes and data structures to improve code readability and maintainability. They also focused on migrating existing components to use the latest Java 8 standard, implementing the use of java.time APIs, and refactoring the code to leverage these new functionalities. Furthermore, the user contributed to the consolidation of RESTful APIs.
cssjavascriptteammatesfeedback-systemsproject-website
mislav/hub
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
A command-line tool that makes git easier to use with GitHub.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Darren primarily contributed to the `hub` command-line tool, focusing on improving its functionality related to issue labels. They implemented features to list labels, rename the label command for semantic consistency, and added basic colorization to label outputs. The contributions show a focus on enhancing the user interface and command-line experience of the tool by organizing and improving label management. These changes involved modification and merging of code within the commands for efficient issue tracking.
command-line-toolgit-addonspull-requestcommand-linehomebrew
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