ABOUT ME
A Mechatronics & Robotics Engineer specializing in the 'Safety-Critical Integrity' of autonomous systems. I bridge the gap between physical machines and digital logic to ensure autonomous environments operate with absolute truth.
- ▷ Forensic System Auditor: Unmasking systemic bottlenecks through binary analysis and hardware-level debugging to identify the 'ground truth' of failing logic.
- ▷ Automation Architect: Replacing manual friction with custom multi-threaded Python TUIs and image-based logic (OCR) to scale engineering productivity.
- ▷ Infrastructure Orchestrator: Managing high-availability virtualized environments using Proxmox and Docker to ensure 99.9% uptime for critical services.
- ▷ Stealth Network Security: Hardening digital perimeters through custom Cloudflare Workers, stealth DNS logic, and automated traffic 'tarpitting' to neutralize probes.
- ≫ Systems Gatekeeper: Operating with high-integrity 'Black Box' logic — recording the truth of a system, however messy, to ensure stability where failure is not an option.
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[2016]
Diploma in Mechatronics & Robotics
Singapore Polytechnic -
[2023]
COVID-19 Resilience Medal
Ministry of Health // 30448 -
[2022]
Data Analytics for Everyone (DA4E)
AI Singapore // Descriptive Analytics -
[2022]
Data Analytics for Everyone (DA4E)
AI Singapore // Predictive Analytics -
[2022]
AI FOR EVERYONE (AI4E)®
AI Singapore // AI4E -
[2022]
TagUI
AI Singapore // Beginners Course -
[2021]
EggPlant Functional
Keysight // Level 1 - Expert -
[2021]
Counterfeit Awareness
Keysight -
[2020]
AI From the Data Center to the Edge
Intel // An Optimized Path Using Intel® Architecture -
[2020]
AI For Everyone®
AI Singapore // Theory -
[2020]
AI FOR INDUSTRY®
AI Singapore // Foundations in AI -
[2020]
AI FOR INDUSTRY®
AI Singapore // Literacy In AI -
[2020]
Infection Prevention and Control for Healthcare Support
HPB // Certificate of Completion
2023 — Present DBS BANK // TEST ANALYST (MANUAL / AUTOMATION)
- ≫ Cryptographic Engineering: Engineered a custom TWQR Payment Generator using Python and DES3 Cryptography to unblock development and testing cycles by simulating secure transaction payloads.
- ▷ Baseline Architecture: Reverse-engineered regional and global specifications to establish the first internal testing baseline for DBS's Taiwan market integration.
- ▷ Systems Integration: Developed multi-threaded TUI and GUI applications (py_cui, Rich, Kivy) to automate data injection and sanitize complex QR payloads.
- ▷ Early-Phase Quality: Implemented 'Shift-Left' quality checks during initial coding phases, identifying 'showstopper' logic errors before they reached system-wide integration.
- ▷ Cross-Platform Stability: Deployed BDD-driven test suites (jBehave, Digital.ai) across SG, TW, and HK, ensuring uniform stability for retail banking apps on iOS and Android.
2022 SIEMENS SG // METRICS VALIDATOR / SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER
- ≫ NLP Implementation: Deployed Natural Language Processing (NLTK/Python) to parse and resolve ambiguous user inputs, transforming 'messy' field data into structured requirements.
- ▷ BI Logic Audit: Verified Business Intelligence logic and metric definitions to ensure that high-level analytics reflected the actual mechanical truth of railway systems.
- ▷ Big Data Extraction: Leveraged Python and HIVE SQL to manipulate and sanitize large-scale, heterogeneous datasets for LTA and ST Engineering projects.
- ▷ Compliance Verification: Designed SIT/UAT suites to strictly align software outputs with System Requirements (SRS), maintaining safety-critical railway standards.
2021 — 2022 KEYSIGHT SG // AUTOMATED SOFTWARE TESTING CONSULTANT
- ≫ HMI Debugging: Audited Human-Machine Interface (HMI) software using C#, identifying and debugging critical logic failures at the hardware-software interaction layer.
- ▷ Framework Migration: Architected the conversion of legacy manual test suites into automated libraries using SenseTalk (Eggplant Functional) and Selenium WebDriver.
- ▷ Edge-Case Auditing: Implemented aggressive negative testing to identify system behavior under out-of-scope inputs, securing the platform against unknown failure states.
- ▷ Heuristic Validation: Designed UAT protocols to verify that automated results maintained 100% parity with legacy human-driven baselines.
2020 — 2021 OCBC BANK // TEST ANALYST (MANUAL)
- ≫ Equities Launch: Validated and unblocked the launch of the Equities trading platform, ensuring high-integrity execution for complex financial transactions.
- ▷ Process Automation: Engineered internal macros and Python scripts to automate redundant account setup workflows, accelerating the SIT/UAT testing lifecycle.
- ▷ Payment Standards: Tested and implemented EMVCo SGQR mobile functions, ensuring regional payment standards were met across the mobile ecosystem.
- ▷ Stress & Integrity: Executed rigorous stress testing on retail banking apps to identify systemic breaking points and edge-case vulnerabilities.
2020 COVID-19 NATIONAL SUPPORT // HEALTHCARE ASSISTANT / HPB SWABBER
- ≫ National Recognition: Awarded the COVID-19 Resilience Medal for sustained commitment to national safety: No. 30448
- ▷ Database Integrity: Managed the national COVID-19 database, ensuring high-fidelity tracking of patient records and test results.
- ▷ Protocol Execution: Enforced rigorous bio-safety procedures in collaboration with nursing staff across multiple high-risk locations.
2019 VENTURE PTE LTD // SYSTEMS TESTER (FIRMWARE & HMI)
- ≫ Kernel Diagnostics: Managed an air-gapped Linux testing environment; developed a custom library of Bash scripts to automate kernel-level diagnostic routines.
- ▷ Interface Integrity: Validated specialized micro-electronics for HMI systems, ensuring signal integrity between custom hardware and control interfaces.
- ▷ Validation Logic: Engineered novel hardware validation protocols to stress-test prototype logic, reducing manual verification cycles.
2018 — 2019 RAZER SG // TEST TEAM LEAD (HARDWARE & SOFTWARE)
- ≫ Operational Oversight: Directed a high-throughput testing operation, coordinating a peak force of 30 testers to ensure delivery across parallel product lines.
- ▷ UAT Architecture: Architected comprehensive User Acceptance Testing (UAT) frameworks for prototype hardware, establishing the quality baseline for global releases.
- ▷ Efficiency Injection: Developed custom Excel Macros and AutoHotkey automation logic to eliminate repetitive manual telemetry logging.
- ▷ Technical Liaison: Served as the primary technical bridge to design engineers, translating complex testing telemetry into actionable hardware refinements.
2018 HP SINGAPORE // SOFTWARE TESTER (PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS)
- ≫ Environmental Stress Testing: Performed aggressive hardware-software validation on prototype systems using oscilloscopes and thermal stress environments (industrial freezers/ovens) to identify failure thresholds.
- ▷ Defect Reconstruction: Captured and documented non-linear system bugs, recreating complex failure states to unblock firmware engineering cycles.
- ▷ Workflow Augmentation: Engineered custom Excel Macros and AutoHotkey scripts to inject automation into manual testing workflows, increasing throughput for prototype validation.
2016 — 2018 MANUFACTURING INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY LTD // TECHNICAL SPECIALIST (SEMICONDUCTOR)
- ≫ Kinematic Calibration: Managed the assembly and high-precision calibration of silicon wafer 'pick and place' robotics, ensuring micron-level accuracy in high-speed manufacturing.
- ▷ Vision System Validation: Configured and tested 3D machine vision cameras for chip scanning, bridging the gap between physical optical capture and digital defect detection.
- ▷ Cleanroom Deployment: Executed onsite systems integration and troubleshooting at AMS Micron, maintaining rigorous cleanroom protocols while resolving hardware-logic collisions.
[LANG] LANGUAGES
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English:
Technical documentation, SRS/SDS authoring and cross-border stakeholder communication. -
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Chinese:
Professional conversational proficiency for regional coordination and technical collaboration. -
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Python:
Architecting multi-threaded TUIs, custom GUI applications, and NLP-driven data sanitization pipelines using Kivy // Rich // Flask // NLTK. -
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C-Family:
Low-level systems logic and hardware-software debugging for industrial HMI interfaces using C++ // C# // C. -
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SQL & Big Data:
Managing real-time transaction states in MySQL // MariaDB and distributed data warehousing via Apache Hive.
[OS] OS & RUNTIMES
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Windows:
Hardening and orchestrating enterprise-grade environments across Workstation and Server architectures for high-compliance banking systems. -
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macOS // Unix-like:
Advanced system navigation and toolchain integration for secure local development and administrative workflows. -
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Linux:
Architecting lean, purpose-built nodes using Debian // Raspbian // Alpine for stable edge-computing and server-side automation. -
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Virtualization:
Orchestrating containerized microservices via Docker CLI, utilizing Portainer as a centralized management and observability layer.
[AUTO] AUTOMATION
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AutoHotkey:
Developing low-level UI wrappers and macro-driven shortcuts to streamline complex industrial HMI interactions and testing workflows. -
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VBA (Visual Basic for Applications):
Eliminating manual friction within high-compliance banking ecosystems by architecting secure Excel/Access macro-automation and report generation. -
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Eggplant SenseTalk:
Implementing image-based automation logic to validate complex industrial HMI software, bridging the gap between high-level UI states and underlying system behavior.
[LOG] SYSTEMS SCRIPTING
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Bash (Bourne Again):
Advanced automation; utilized from heavy-duty TUI/GUI tools to Proxmox node management. -
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POSIX Shell (sh):
Scripts engineered for high-portability in minimal Docker/Alpine containers. -
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PowerShell // Batch:
Native Windows environment hardening and legacy automation.
[WEB] WEB TECH & UI
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Frontend (UX/UI):
Crafting responsive, high-fidelity interfaces and documentation sites using HTML5 // CSS3 // Sass // Markdown. -
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JavaScript & PHP:
Implementing client-side interactivity and server-side logic for dynamic data visualization and tool dashboards. -
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Tooling & Ecosystem:
Managing dependency lifecycles and build pipelines using NPM and specialized version control workflows.
[DEVOPS] DEV & VERSION CONTROL
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Git Ecosystem:
Managing complex code branching and collaboration via GitHub, GitLab, and SourceTree. -
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Legacy Versioning:
Maintaining and migrating heritage codebases using Subversion (SVN) and TortoiseSVN. -
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Atlassian Suite:
Orchestrating Agile workflows and requirement traceability within JIRA and Zephyr environments. -
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Intellij IDEA:
Primary IDE for enterprise-scale Java and Python software development. -
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Visual Studio Code:
Secondary IDE for rapid prototyping of smaller projects.
[SENSE] TELEMETRY & LOGIC
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Grafana // Prometheus:
Architecting real-time monitoring dashboards for system health and metric visualization. -
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Jupyter:
Utilizing Lab and Notebooks for data sanitization, NLP prototyping, and ETL validation. -
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Postman // NPM:
Executing automated API contract testing and payload validation for secure gateways.
[LINK] REMOTE OPS
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Cross-Platform Control:
Managing headless environments and remote hardware using VNC, RDP, and TeamViewer. -
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Mobile Debugging:
Leveraging Vysor and scrcpy for low-latency Android device bridge (ADB) interactions. -
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Input Sharing:
Using Barrier to unify workspace ergonomics across disparate OS environments.
[LOGIC] HARDWARE LOGIC
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Protocol Logic:
Implementing industrial communication and data exchange via Modbus and Siemens LOGO!Soft. -
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Hardware Debugging:
Embedded systems development and firmware verification using MPLAB IDE and LeviStudio. -
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Mechanical Design:
Architecting precision 3D solids and electrical schematics in Autodesk AutoCAD // Inventor.
[ROOT] DEV HERITAGE
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Visual Studio Suite:
Full-lifecycle development across various iterations of MS Visual Studio (Community // Code). -
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Heritage Web Tools:
Experience with early-phase web architecture using WebMatrix, Google Web Designer, and 'What You See Is What You Get' (WYSIWYG) builders.
[XRAY] LOGIC AUDIT
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Static Analysis (IDA Pro):
Reverse-engineering proprietary binaries to audit 'Black Box' logic and systemic vulnerabilities. -
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Binary & Memory Auditing:
Executing low-level forensic inspection and runtime memory manipulation via HxD // Cheat Engine.
[AV] SIGNAL & SIMULATION
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Adobe Creative Cloud:
Executing technical post-production, multi-track audio restoration (Audition), and motion graphics (After Effects // Premiere Pro). -
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Audio Engineering:
Professional sound design, signal processing, and real-time mixing using Ableton Live and FL Studio. -
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HMI Kiosk Deployment:
Architected a dedicated Raspberry Pi 5 touch-interface for real-time Home Assistant telemetry and system control.
Python / Pytest Automated Testing Framework
- yes Developed end-to-end regression suites
- Integrated with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines
72TB NAS & Proxmox Infrastructure
- yes 3-Node HA Cluster
- UniFi Networking
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Contact Nodes
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EMAIL
reiko@reikolydia.sg -
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Phone
+65 9672 3481 -
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LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/reikolydia