University of Cambridge

Director at Open Government Products, GovTech Singapore

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Open Government Products, GovTech Singapore

Director

Built a new team of 22 software engineers, UI designers, and project managers to initiate and build tech products for the public sector
-  Pushed through new government policy for creating a team to experiment with and implement the latest technologies and organizational design practices
-  Created new recruiting practices that brought in 15 times the number of  qualified applicants per month
-  Created new career schemes, open feedback, and performance evaluation systems for the team
-  Created streamlined meeting processes to minimize management overhead

Data.gov.sg - Rebuilt the government's data sharing platform to grow from 10k to 500k monthly visits
-  Created data standards and integrations with 62 government agencies
-  Designed new data visualization focused UI
-  Designed fingerprinting and logging system to provide traceability of leaked data
-  Designed encryption system to allow for redundant distributed access control

Parking.sg - Built a new mobile app to pay for street parking used by ~60% of the driving population in Singapore with ~1.1m users
-  Designed backend APIs to support idempotency and atomicity in transactions
-  Designed payment batching system to cut down charges by 50% and save $400k yearly
-  Developed iOS and Android apps using React Native

Form.gov.sg - Built a new paperless form system used by ~900k citizens and ~10k public officers
-  Designed public key based encryption system to allow for zero knowledge servers to run on public cloud infrastructure
-  Refactored open source code base to streamline multiple build systems into a coherent build process

GovTech Singapore

Deputy Director

Current Projects & Objectives
-  Increase interest in computer science education in Singapore
-  Redesign and reimplement data.gov.sg
-  Improve the transport network using sensors and optimisation algorithms

Consultant

Product lead for Image Search UI - Largest ever increase in image views per day
-  Led Image Search redesign - coordinating 14 feature launches
-  Designed new user interfaces
-  Ran and analysed A/B experiments
-  Developed prototypes for rapid iteration
-  Crafted public communications plans

Product lead for Image Search monetisation - $●●● million increase in annual revenues
-  Analysed 5 different monetisation strategies for implementation viability and revenue potential
-  Persuaded 7 executives to commit resources
-  Coordinated engineers across 5 different teams
-  Aligned design and advertising objectives with legal requirements

Project manager for Spanner: Google's Globally Distributed Database
-  OSDI 2012 Best Paper Award
-  Designed on-boarding experience and documentation
-  Designed replication configurations based on analysis of usage data
-  Advised engineers on data storage design
-  Tracked resource requirements and feature requests

Google

Product Manager

- Product design & market research for an early prototype of Google Keep
-  Design and proposed review and recommendation system for the Google Play Store

Associate Product Manager Intern

- Wrote a paper analysing the economics of water pricing in the circumstances of variable capacity
-  Presented proposal to MEWR officers, including the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources

Ministry of the Environment & Water Resources

Summer Intern

Professor Parag Pathak - Empirical analysis of the Sep 2008 SEC short selling halt
Professor David Author - Simulated the impact of technology on low skilled jobs

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Research Assistant - Department of Economics

- Led a 20-person signals platoon in exercises and operations
-  Handled day-to-day training, logistics, and soldier welfare
-  Developed an iPhone app to automate radio planning calculations
-  Developed an iPhone app for commanders to track soldier ground locations

Hongyi Li