About Me

Background

📍 Current Location: College Station, Texas 🇺🇸

🗺️ From: Singapore 🇸🇬, Dubai 🇦🇪, India 🇮🇳

Education

I am currently in grad school (since Fall 2024), pursuing Master's in Computer Science at Texas A&M. Previously (2017-21), did my undergrad in Computer Science + Statistics at the National University of Singapore. Also, spent the Spring 2020 semester at Georgia Tech as an exchange student.

A few notable courses that I enjoyed were: Information Retrieval, Data Visualization [TAMU], Natural Language Processing, Database Systems [GT], Software Engineering, Big Data Systems [NUS].

Work Experience

I worked as a Data Engineer at PropertyGuru (2021-24). Here, my responsibilities included:

  • Building systems for supporting data pipelines for various teams. Examples: YAML-based Reverse ETL pipelines, Data Quality Framework
  • Maintaing data infrastructure (security, governance, costs). Example: GCP (IAM, Data Catalog, BigQuery, Composer, Billing, Storage), AWS (Redshift, S3, Glue, EMR, OpenSearch, DocumentDB, DynamoDB), FiveTran
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand their data needs and serving data products. Example: Data APIs for RecSys, Lead Insights, Property Valuation, etc.

Interests

  • I like to learn/try out new tools and early-stage products (ie: ProductHunt)
  • work on side projects that provide some positive value to me
  • read about startups (how they built their product, their growth journey)
  • spend some time investing (gamble with pump-and-dump penny stocks and options (primarily 0DTE SPY or 45DTE Mag 7) or discuss ideas for 'till death do us part' and growth stocks with my friends)
  • playing games (open world - GTA, cinematic - Ghost of Tsushima, and planning/strategy - Cities Skylines)
  • watching movies (especially movies adventure/sci-fi - Dune, Avatar, LotR, or satirical comedy - Tropic Thunder, Borat)
  • And if I am feeling motivated, then a bit of strength training or Duolingo.
  • Above all, I enjoy food (I try to contribute as a Google Local Guide) and travel (I don't post photos).


Rahul
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