Ng Guoyou

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Singapore

Updated October 2026 · Latest version: gyng.github.io/resume/

Engineering leader specialising in platform engineering for AI, web, and content systems, combining team leadership with hands-on technical delivery. Experience across media, enterprise AI, financial services, and government.

Experience

SPH Media

Head, Digital Platform, Singapore
Apr 2024–Present

Lead 15 engineers and two managers across four teams spanning AI platforms, web application platforms, news content platforms, and B2B content services.
Led teams delivering a shared generative AI platform combining a large language model (LLM) gateway, agent workflows with tool integrations, and enterprise knowledge search for newsroom research.
Lead the rollout of enterprise AI tools and model access for engineering and business teams, spanning Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud AI services, and Claude Enterprise.
Built a developer access platform for identity and access management (IAM), automating access governance through provisioning, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and audit logging.
Own strategy and delivery for WebCore, the shared web application platform supporting 15+ publications and millions of daily page views.
Own strategy and delivery for SPH’s central platform for news ingestion, search, and distribution.
Accountable for WebCore and content platform reliability under government requirements. Led preparations for Singapore’s 2025 General Election, with zero downtime during the event.
Lead technology strategy and engineering delivery for B2B content services, supporting licensing and syndication revenue through delivery platforms and APIs. Oversaw client API migrations and partner integrations.
Provided technical guidance on media asset management standards, procurement, and AI-assisted asset tagging.
Set cloud budget priorities and drove S$X00K+ annual cost reduction through SaaS consolidation, cloud optimisation, and operational improvements.
Established engineering standards, technical design reviews, platform health dashboards, release safeguards, and operational practices including structured logging, alerting, and on-call rotations.

Lead Software Engineer, Singapore
Apr 2022–Apr 2024

Led 10 developers across two teams to architect and build shared web and content platforms.
Built WebCore’s application hosting and deployment platform on AWS, including server-side rendering, incremental static regeneration (ISR), edge middleware, caching, backend services, and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD).
Architected the shared content platform’s search APIs, ingestion pipelines, image optimisation, and delivery services. Built clickstream analytics for product and editorial teams.
Led migration of publications from legacy content management systems to a shared headless architecture.

Basis AI (acquired by Aicadium)

Software Engineer, Singapore
Jan 2019–Oct 2020, Jun 2021–Apr 2022

Employee #3; full-stack engineer on a machine learning platform for training and deploying data science workloads.
Built the platform’s frontend and reusable component library; contributed backend access-control features.
Built workload monitoring and tooling for large artifact uploads; implemented container image caching to speed up workload startup.

Credit Suisse

Software Engineer, Singapore
Nov 2020–Jun 2021

Developed and maintained internal applications for securities order placement, disclosures, and compliance.

GovTech (Government Technology Agency)

Software Engineer, Singapore
Jan 2016–Jan 2019

MyCareersFuture, 2018. Led modernisation of the job portal’s application codebase.
OpenCerts, 2018. Built tools to bulk-register verifiable academic transcripts on the blockchain.
Data ingestion and geographic visualisation, 2017. Improved ingestion and validation speed 50-fold over the previous implementation and built a geographic data visualisation application.
Business Grants Portal, 2016. Implemented complex form validation and SingPass authentication; introduced automated code quality checks across the codebase.

Education

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

Selected Projects

save-in — Browser extension for organising downloads into user-defined directories, with 40,000+ users.
album — Zero-config, file-based photography gallery generator.

More projects on GitHub.