Technical Talks

Mar 16, '24 | GDG Cloud, Singapore

Build with AI: Multimodality with Gemini Workshop

Hands-on workshop about the multimodality features of the latest Gemini Pro Vision model using Vertex AI [Slides]

Jan 19, '24 | Practical Blockchain, Singapore

Finding the Genesis Block: My first forays into working with blockchain data

Walk-through of analyzing the first Eth accounts and what they are doing now. [Slides]

Nov 18, '23 | GDG Devfest, Singapore

Good (n)gram hunting: Building serverless search at zero* cost

This talk walks through the process of transforming an unstructured database of over 22 million entities into a text-searchable resource. We deep-dive concepts of indexing, (n)grams and tf-idf. And explore the insights from the successes, challenges and limitations of this technical project. (with GCP) [Slides]

Nov 04, '23 | GDG Cloud Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Good (n)gram hunting: Building serverless search at zero* cost

This talk walks through the process of transforming an unstructured database of over 22 million entities into a text-searchable resource. We deep-dive concepts of indexing, (n)grams and tf-idf. And explore the insights from the successes, challenges and limitations of this technical project. (with GCP) [Slides] [Demo]

Oct 14, '23 | GeekcampSG, Singapore

Good (n)gram hunting: How we built search in-house at (almost) zero cost

This talk walks through the process of transforming an unstructured database of over 22 million entities into a text-searchable resource. We deep-dive concepts of indexing, (n)grams and tf-idf. And explore the insights from the successes, challenges and limitations of this technical project. (with AWS) [Slides]