1415T1g1 Silicon Valley/Participant Information/Mohamed Safiullah
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About Safi
Academic Year: 3
Degree: Information Systems Management
2nd Major: Advanced Business Technology
Interests: Movies/TV Series (Action, Romance, Comedy, SciFi), Reading (Technology, Inventions, Engineering)
Past Commitments:
- SMU SISS (Creative Executive for Web)
- SMU innovateIT 2013 (Events Executive)
- SMU innovateIT 2014 (President)
Email: mohameds.2012@sis.smu.edu.sg
Why TSM Silicon Valley
Internship Opportunities
Starting A Business
Past Experiences
Since young I have leveraged on small opportunities to create entrepreneurial value, be it offering a school canteen to classroom food delivery service at my secondary school, write a program to consolidate educational questionnaires from the internet to be distributed as pre-examination practises or freelance as a web/mobile app developer and consultant.
During my polytechnic, my friend and I attempted to launch a one-stop wedding services site called, "Diari Pengantin" (The Wedding Diary). Start-up was a new scene in Singapore back then and we faced many challenges in procuring sponsorship and in marketing our website. Although this initial start-up venture was eventually put in hiatus, the humbling and enriching experience and the lessons learnt from mistakes are still unforgotten.
Also during the first year at university I worked at 3GO LLP Tech start-up. As the Lead Technology Developer, I was responsible for leading and managing a team of 3 Apple iOS and Ruby On Rails developers for an analytics and mobile application project funded by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) of Singapore. The app facilitated LTA in collecting real time statistics from taxi commuters. The experience of working with people from various background and diverse skill set was an eye opener.
