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Nicholas Choo

Nicholas Choo

Excellence in Technology

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Software Engineer @ DBS

  • Education

    • Singapore Polytechnic

      2014 - 2017
      Information Technology GPA 3.71

      Learning the fundamentals of programming within the first year, and took into the specialization of game development on the second year onward, to learn the basic mechanics and design of games, on top of that, learning algorithms and data structures. I have aced most of the general education modules which boosted my soft-skills set.

    • Nanyang Technological University Singapore

      2019 - 2023
      Bachelor of Engineering - BE (Honours) Computer Science Honours (Distinction)

      Activities and Societies: Bouldering Graduate

  • Experience

    • DBS Digital Game Jam 2015

      Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
      Excellence in Technology

      Prototyped and developed a music-based rhythm game which utilized the Google Cardboard VR platform on mobile to procedurally generate levels based on the music file of choice.Won Excellence in Technology prize together with my team of 5 members.https://www.dbs.com.sg/personal/landing/digitalgamejam_2015/musicship.html

    • Ministry of Education, Singapore (MOE)

      Oct 2016 - Feb 2017
      Game Developer

      • Developed educational 2D games for children• Managed game artist with game design while maintaining communications with department supervisor

    • Ministry of Defence of Singapore

      Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
      Office Clerk

      • Headquarters office clerk that handled communications and documents for all companies in the Army.• Churned and visualized yearly data into PowerPoint slides and Microsoft PowerBI for interactive data visualization.

    • TVS Digital Pte. Ltd.

      May 2022 - Jun 2023
      Software Engineer

      • Primarily focused on frontend development, particularly on developing interactive web solutions connecting sellers and buyers for product brochures created for over 160,000 users with over 170,000 user interactions tracked.• Pioneered content management system to aid operational data uploading tasks and dashboard to test frontend software.• Analysed, developed and optimized database design system and backend API endpoints to implement various endpoint services. Managed to reduce endpoint data response time by 400% by introducing data pagination.• Picked up various good practices to ensure the quality of work, such as peer reviews, branching strategies, and asserting purposeful code commits of the required quality. Show less

    • DBS Bank

      Jul 2023 - now
      Software Engineer

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Nicholas Choo
      Director's Roll for second year (2015) Dr. Faris Akbar Hajamaideen (Director in School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology) Apr 2016 Top 10% of cohort
    • Awarded to Nicholas Choo
      DBS Game Jam 2015 Excellence in Technology DBS Dec 2015 Created a VR game for Android where players can ride through a track, generated based on the music volume algorithm and collect points along the way according to the approximated beats of the song.