Ng Guoyou

ng.guoyou[at]gmail.com
github.com/gyng
Updated July 2025

Experience

SPH Media is the largest media organisation in Singapore.

Head, Digital Platform, Singapore
Apr 2024–Present

Leading around 15 developers in multiple teams on developer tooling, application platforms, content lake, content licensing, and content archival. These teams support >50 software developers and generate >$1M SGD in yearly revenue.
Developed mid- and long-term strategies, roadmaps, and mandates for teams. Created engineering strategies to optimise cost, and increase baseline engineering capabilities.
Developed and implemented engineering policies and processes for teams around technical design, development, and operations.
Set and maintained engineering standards around scalable and reliable architecture, automated testing, and consistent code quality.
Guided technical and architecture designs as part of the technical design process.
Reorganised teams into more efficient structures as part of organisation transformation.
Implemented hiring processes and career advancement frameworks.
Cost-optimised over >$200K SGD yearly by eliminating unnecessary SaaS contracts.
Prepared for and executed on a smooth Singapore General Elections 2025 which saw a significant spike in site traffic.

Lead Software Engineer, Singapore
Apr 2022–Apr 2024
TypeScript, Node, Python, AWS, React, Vite, Docker, OpenSearch

Led around 10 developers across two teams to build platform services.
Architected, developed, and ran an in-house web deployment platform for SSR/ISR Vite/React applications designed for reliability on AWS (think Vercel). The platform implements edge middleware, incremental-static regeneration, a Backend-for-Frontend framework, and deployment workflows. This web platform serves millions of page views per day across >15 publications.
Assisted teams with migration away from Drupal and WordPress setups.
Architected, developed, and ran the content API and image optimisation service. This includes content indexing as a service using OpenSearch (think Algolia), ingestion pipelines, content delivery, and on-the-fly image optimisation service using sharp.
Architected and developed the in-house browser clickstream tracking script, associated backend service, and session ID tracking scheme.
Built proof-of-concept research projects including a production-scale liveblog and an edge-based ABAC policy engine.

Basis AI was a startup that built a machine learning platform for data science teams.

Software Engineer, Singapore
Jan 2019–Oct 2020, Jun 2021–Apr 2022
TypeScript, Python, Rust, Webpack, React, Redux, Docker, Kubernetes, UX

Employee #3. Full stack developer on a machine learning platform for training and deployment of data science workloads.
Main contributor to frontend with Webpack, TypeScript, React+Redux. Created reusable React component library.
Built client workload monitor in Rust; includes streaming ZIP and large file uploads for workload artifacts.
Developed backend features in Python such as pagination and RBAC.
Implemented Docker image caching for fast workloads using kaniko.
Built company website in Next.js.
Conducted basic UX research and user testing.

Software Engineer, Singapore
Nov 2020–Jun 2021
TypeScript, React, Redux, MobX, Webpack

Maintained and implemented features for internal financial frontends related to securities order placement, disclosures, and compliance.

GovTech is a Singapore government agency responsible for citizen-facing digital services.

Software Engineer, Singapore
Jan 2016–Jan 2019
TypeScript, React, Redux, Webpack, Python, Rust, Ruby on Rails

MyCareersFuture.gov.sg job portal, 2018. Orchestrated the codebase transition to TypeScript, Node, and React. Implemented features and bug fixes for the site.
OpenCerts.io, 2018. Created frontend tools to bulk-register academic transcripts on Ethereum using TypeScript and React.
Data ingestion validator, API endpoint, and data visualisation application, 2017. Improved data ingestion and validation time by 50 times over existing Python script. Developed frontend application for visualising geographic data from scratch with IE11 support in Flow, React, and Deck.gl.
Business Grants Portal, 2016. Implemented features for and fixed bugs on forms with complex validation logic. Integrated authentication with SingPass SAML. Introduced linting for Ruby and JavaScript on a large codebase.

Intern, Software Engineer, Singapore
Summer 2013
Ruby on Rails

Bachelor of Computing (Communications & Media), Hons.
National University of Singapore, 2011–2015
UX, HCI, and computer graphics focus

Singapore citizen. Served 2 years of National Service in the Singapore Armed Forces. Native English and Mandarin Chinese speaker.

More projects on GitHub.