Poo Hoong
Section Lead Data Analytics - Data Engineering
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Top SchoolPoo Hoong is a data engineering and analytics leader with over a decade of industry experience and a 15-year academic and research background in distributed systems and high performance computing. Currently Section Lead for Data Analytics - Data Engineering at Roche, he has led data science and strategy teams across enterprises including BAT, Nielsen and startups, bridging research-grade algorithms with production data platforms. He holds a PhD in Distributed Systems and applies formal theories—graph theory, optimization and network coding—to practical problems in big data, ML and P2P networks. Known for driving end-to-end delivery, he combines hands-on engineering with mentoring and curriculum advisory work for university data science programs. An active community contributor recognized as a GDE in AI and AWS Community Builder in ML, he brings both technical depth and ecosystem influence. Based in Kuala Lumpur, he thrives on translating complex performance models into scalable, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Distributed System, Ph.D Distributed System at Nagoya Institute of Technology 名古屋工業大学Master in IT Multimedia, Master in IT Multimedia at Universiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaCochrane Road School
English, Chinese, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (4)
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Github contributions (5)
kuanhoong/mlstudyjam
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:61 commits, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
kuanhoong/ggplot2_workshop
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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