Journey
How I Got Here
The milestones that mattered — scroll down through the years.
Academics
Zone Distinction, Cyber Olympiad
Recognised in the SOF National Cyber Olympiad — an early sign the interest in computers might go somewhere, before ever writing a real program.
Coding
The Lab, with Distinction
Completed The Lab’s intermediate coding programme with distinction — the first structured step from curiosity to actual skill.
Academics
Silver, International Singapore Maths Competition
A silver medal that made the case for taking problem-solving seriously.
Coding
First Website, First Apps
Built the Marine Life Museum website in HTML, CSS, JS and PHP, then the first Python apps — PokeBattle and ClimateWarrior. Building things became the default.
Hackathons
First Global Hackathon
Rank 97 worldwide at the iCode Global Hackathon — a first taste of building against the clock.
Games
The Game-Dev Year
A run of Pygame games — Ninja Game, PygameStreetFighter, Dodge, CodeDay — each one sharper than the last.
Hackathons
Rank 2, iCode Singapore Finals
Runner-up at the iCode Global Hackathon Singapore Finals.
Debate
Best Delegate, First MUN
Took Best Delegate at the USS GIIS conference — the start of a parallel track in debate and public speaking.
Academics
100 Percentile, National Genius Search
A perfect percentile in the NGS Mains, alongside Bronze in the Cambridge Upper Secondary Science Competition.
AI & Data
The Pivot to AI
Moved from games to tools — a movie-success data analysis in Jupyter, then Mindful Study Hub built on Streamlit and OpenAI, backed by IBM’s AI Foundations certification.
Biology
Engineering Biological Systems
An 8-week IIT Madras course that turned a science interest into a direction.
Hackathons
2nd Place, Hackathon NextGen
Second place at Hackathon NextGen Singapore, and first place in the Lift Off competition.
Medicine
Choosing Medicine
HarvardX neuroscience, admission to Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes, GlobeTrek — and the decision to aim for medicine. This site is the story so far.