Wilson Wongso
Engineering Lead at Data Cruiser
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolWilson Wongso is an Engineering Lead and PhD candidate in Computer Science based in Sydney with eight years of hands-on experience building ML systems and NLP products for Indonesian and multilingual contexts. He combines academic research—published at SemEval and SEA language workshops—with industry delivery, leading engineering teams and consulting on AI at Data Cruiser, Eluve, and Bookbot. His work spans speech and language pipelines, on-device speech synthesis, ASR labeling, and multilingual transformer fine-tuning, with open-source projects like NusaBERT and IndoT5 improving Indonesian language support. Wilson’s background in both research and product engineering enables him to move models from experimental settings into production-facing, resource-constrained environments. He also brings unusual cross-disciplinary experience as a writer and educator, which informs clear communication of complex ML results to non-technical stakeholders. Ambitious about scaling multilingual NLP, he focuses on culturally-aware models that serve underrepresented languages.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad, Information Technology, Study Abroad, Information Technology at Monash UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at BINUS UniversityUNSW Sydney
Indonesian, English, Chinese
Github Skills (115)
transformers10
python10
windows10
speech-enhancement10
text-to-speech10
lazarus10
websocket10
deep-learning10
gpu10
gemma10
cpp10
glm10
linux10
dotnet10
multimodal10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
LazarusNLP/indonesian-sentence-embeddings
May 2023 - Aug 2024
Embedding Representation for Indonesian Sentences!
Contributions:1 release, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
indonesiansemantic-textual-similaritysentence-embeddingssentence-transformersnatural-language-processing
w11wo/blog
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
Personal blog, learning journal, esports news.
Contributions:1 PR, 191 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
reactjournaljavascriptesportsnews
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