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 (106)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
windows10
text-to-speech10
lazarus10
closed10
deep-learning10
gpu10
speech10
cpp10
linux10
dotnet10
onnx10
phoneme10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bookbot-hive/TensorFlowTTS
Apr 2022 - Aug 2024
:stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: TensorFlowTTS: Real-Time State-of-the-art Speech Synthesis for Tensorflow 2 (supported including English, French, Korean, Chinese, German and Easy to adapt for other languages)
Contributions:24 PRs, 166 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 4 months
chinesesynthesisstuckspeech-recognitionstate-of-the-art
w11wo/w11wo.github.io
Jun 2021 - Mar 2025
Personal website, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes.
Contributions:3 PRs, 68 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 9 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
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