2223T1 Seoul/Participant Information/Caleb
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About YourName
SMU email: calebcheong.2020@smu.edu.sg
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebcheong98/
Academic Year: Year 2 (2020)
Degree: Information Systems (Business Analytics and Digitalisation and Cloud Solutions Track)
Why Virtual TSM?
- What motivates you to join TSM?
Since I was a young boy, I've been fascinated by technology and its ability to improve our lives. I've been pursuing an IT track since my diploma and now at SMU, where I'm furthering my education in this field with the hopes of one day using technology to improve our quality of life. TSM would undoubtedly provide me the opportunity to observe how high-tech start-ups around the world solve a local/global challenge. Grab and Sea Money, on the other hand, are two good instances of current start-up solutions in Southeast Asia where we could experience first-hand how their technology was used to solve traditional problems. Although the internet and globalization allow us to learn about start-ups and innovative solutions all around the country, nothing beats experiencing them first-hand.
- Where would you like to visit?
US-Silicon Valley, China-Shen Zhen, Japan-Tokyo and Korean-Seoul
Starting a business
- What types of business interest you?
As a tech enthusiast with a finance background, I am interested in the ever-growing trend of robo-advisors. Singapore’s Endowus and Syfe robo-advisors are a good example of the kind of business that I am interested in.
- What plans do you have in starting a business?
I aim to start a small robo-advisor trading fund within the finance and tech industry. I have created multiple algorithm trading bot that currently only rely on price and technical indicators to trade that was able to bring in 10-20% capital growth per month prior to the recent market correction caused by the supply chain issues and covid. I have recently completed an SMU-X module where I created a programme that is able to use sentimental data from social media platforms like twitter and discord to predict the underlying derivative price to an accuracy of 80%-90% ( shorturl.at/jmxJW ). I hope to apply what I have learned during my SMU-X project into my main algorithm and gain a very competitive edge against the current solutions in the market, which currently only provides 0-10% per annum (according to my personal historical record).
Past Experiences (optional)
Startup:
- Name : Money Tree
- Website: No website, private funding
- Description: My own small trading fund that uses in house developed robo-advisor to trade the SP500
- Role: Owner and Main Developer
- Name : Meave / Cardano District
- Website: Website is currently down in the mist of reworking
- Description: The start-up specialised in helping artist mint NFTs in Solana and Cardano, while also have its own 3D architecture NFTs.
- Role: Lead Blockchain Advisor and Lead Blockchain Developer
- Name: Step Zero
- Website: No website
- Description: The start-up aims to revolutionise the way people shop for skin care products with a AI-powered skin detection engine that also recommends skin care products suitable for your skin to meet your goals
- Role: Lead Database Engineer and Assistant data scientist
Internships:
- Sea Money (May 2021 – Nov 2021)
- Current awaiting the start of the internship as a Data Analyst
- Singapore Armed Forces – Developer (May 2021 – Jun 2021)
- Project 1: Envisioned, planned and created a telegram bot to assist in contract tracing during the spike in Singapore’ covid cases
- Project 2: Created a mobile application to assist in the day-to-day training of army personals
- Singapore Exchange – Data Analyst Intern & Contract Developer (Oct 2017 – Jul 2018)
- Created dashboard with KDB+ / Q
- Worked with MongoDB and Mark logic to build the Data Science Database for the company
- Developed in Python, AWS lambda and Q to Automate business operations
- Used classifier models like SVM, MLP, Naive Bayes, etc. To help automate processes.
- Organized & ran workshops to promote Innovating within SGX.
- Jungle Element – Project Lead Intern (Aug 2018 – Oct 2017)
- To prove that we could improve secure money transfer between business and consumers. I created a POC e-wallet that runs on a block chain technology w/custom smart contract (Hyperledger fabric).
- In addition, I build interactive dashboard with reactJS and anuglarJS for maintenance of the block chain and for customers to view their e-wallet.
Co-curricular activities
- SMU Golf Member (August 2020 – Current Date)
- Programming Tutor – Project Code Green, Ngee Ann Polytechnic (December 2021 – March 2021)
What keeps you ticking?
Humbling oneself and knowing that there are still many individuals to learn from motivates me to strive for excellence and to remain competitive.
