Yong Poh
Technology Lead at Microsoft
Singapore
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Top SchoolYong Poh is a Technology Lead at Microsoft Singapore, focused on public sector education and skills, with nine years of experience bridging data, AI, and cloud solutions. He progressed through roles from data scientist and researcher to solution architect and now leads technology strategy and delivery for education customers, earning a FY22 Accelerate Award. Comfortable with hands-on engineering and stakeholder-facing architecture, he brings practical experience across Azure Data & AI and applied research from institutions like Fraunhofer. Trained in engineering at Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University, he combines rigorous technical foundations with product-minded execution. Colleagues know him for a steady, code-first work ethic—aptly summarized as "Eat, sleep, code, repeat!"—and a knack for turning research prototypes into deployable solutions. Based in Singapore, he thrives at the intersection of public-sector impact and cloud innovation.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College LondonBachelor of Engineering Science, Bachelor of Engineering Science at Nanyang Technological University
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Github Skills (16)
orchestra6
expert6
human-computer-interaction5
javascript4
react4
streaming4
video-streaming3
python2
bots2
bot-framework1
azure1
automation1
microsoft-cognitive-services1
dashboard1
microsoft1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pohyk123/emotion-recogniser
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
A simple video-streaming web app that tells your emotions using memes.
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
reactjavascriptstreamingvideo-streamingvideo
laskjk/GovTech
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:25 PRs, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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