darren ngatimin|

data scientist | software engineer

about me

Hi there! I am a data enthusiast and tinkerer based in Singapore.

I enjoy hacking things together, trying to experiment with different frameworks and craft things related to ML/AI.

Besides coding, I also enjoy reading up on new technologies and learning different languages to try and stay up to date.

If you don't see me at my computer, then I'm generally away trying to brew the perfect cup of coffee or attempt to boulder!

Did i mention i also like building stuff? Cuz most of my projects revolve heavily around sprinkling some sort of ML on my projects :)

But besides all that... i wonder if neural networks dream of electric sheeps?

skills

Some of the tech skills/languages i've picked up over the years are below:

On the other hand, the human languages i speak include:

Native English, Conversational Chinese and Bahasa Indonesia, Basic Korean and Japanese

professional experience

Grab Holdings Inc., Data Scientist June 2021 - August 2023

Allego Inc., Data Analyst May 2020 - January 2021

Motus LLC, Data Engineer Intern June 2019 - August 2019

Boston College, Teaching Assistant January 2019 - May 2020

Bentley University, CIS Sandbox Tutor September 2017 - May 2018

Singapore Armed Forces, Non Commissioned Army Officer September 2014 - August 2016

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education

Boston College, Caroll School of Management September 2016 - May 2020

Bachelor of Science, Management w. Major in Computer Science and Business Analytics

Cumulative GPA: 3.853 || Major GPA: 3.917

projects

Below are some of the personal projects I've worked on. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.

data related

• Glassdoor Scrape
Scraping the Glassdoor website for skills and qualifications needed for certain professions such as Data Analyst, Data Scientist or Software Engineers before visualizing them.
• BigQuery Tour
A simple script that queries results from the geo_international_ports dataset and stores it in a table within my own dataset on Google Cloud Platform.
• NY Food List
Gathering monthly must-try restaurants from websites such as Eater and The Infatuation before compiling them into a dataset and automatically sending them to users via email.

ml related

• Presence Check
A simple alternative to checking attendance by detecting people through the computer's camera and recognizing them based on images stored in the dataset.
• Waifu Detect
Detecting anime characters and predicting their names in real time based on an anime character dataset that the user creates by scraping images off the web.
• ML Deep Dive
Exploring different ML Algorithms using scikit-learn while learning more about sentiment analysis. Also includes a script which detects one's mental health and provides a brief respite.

general coding

• Tic Tac Go
Simple Tic-Tac-Toe Game written in Go which allow users to play either with other people locally, an easy AI or an undefeatable AI. (Thanks to the minmax algorithm)
• One More Step to Go
Simple Golang programs and algorithms as I learn Go
• Code R-eview
Basic R code with ML algorithms
• Implementing Algorithms
Implementing Data Structures and Algorithms essential to interviews, as well as other things such as Dynamic Programming and Backtracking.
• Personal Portfolio
Personal Website built with Flask, HTML and CSS hosted on Render. There are two parts to this website. The other one can be accessed via dngatimin.onrender.com/hi

under construction

• All Things Food
A telegram bot fused with a CRUD API built using Flask to store all potential places that a user might want to try and provides recommendations based on current location
• Plot Gen
Generating unique anime descriptions with LSTM units and a GPT2 transformer using data scraped from the MyAnimeList website
• Pygame Tour
Exploring the pygame library to create games such as hangman and snake. Additions to the snake game include controlling the snake through gestures and training an AI to play it

resume

my resume can be found here.

or reach me via my linkedin or visit my github!