Joel Foo
Software Engineer | Quantitative Developer | Aspiring Research Engineer
Final year Computer Science undergraduate at NUS, minoring in Statistics. I love tackling challenging problems across software engineering and machine learning, and am currently deepening my expertise in ML research.
Experience
Squarepoint Capital
2025Software Developer Intern
Quantitative risk infrastructure tooling
Rakuten Viki
2024Software Engineering Intern
Building and orchestrating data pipelines at scale
Binance
2023Software Engineering Intern
Backend development of an in-house Treasury Management System (TMS)
Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA)
2018Research Intern, Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Prototype chatbot development for IT query resolution
Projects
Matrix operations, Gauss-Jordan elimination, and solving systems of equations
Backpropagation and training algorithms implemented without ML libraries (~90% on MNIST)
Recognition
- Silver Medallist, Singapore Mathematical Olympiad (SMO) 2019
- NUS Merit Scholar
- Dean's List AY25/26
- Certificate of Distinction in AI Focus Area
- 3rd Place, GIC CodeToImpact Hackathon 2024