Coffee with
Melanie
Melanie is a Software Engineer in Team X (Synthesis Engineering Team). She leads the design, development, and maintenance of our tools for data extraction, storage, and modelling.
Melanie is a Software Engineer in Team X (Synthesis Engineering Team). She leads the design, development, and maintenance of our tools for data extraction, storage, and modelling.
Got Caught in Amsterdam by Arc De Soleil. If you ever see me in the office with my headphones on for deep focus work, I'm either jamming to Alt/Indie artists like Arc De Soleil and Khruangbin OR some R&B/Soul artists like Gotts Street Park or The Teskey Brothers.
"If we create technology that changes the world, we bear the responsibility to help the world navigate that change."
San Francisco. It's where I was born, raised, and fell in love. It shaped the foundation of who I am today and will always have my heart.
I go on a photo walk… grab my camera and walk around the city for street photography. It forces me to be present and to observe life in the city with a creative perspective.
Bread, cheese, dark chocolate, and eggs - so many great combinations for all my snacking needs. Sweet snack? Chocolate. Savory snack? Grilled cheese sandwich. Need little protein? Scrambled or fried eggs on toast. Fancy snack? Dark chocolate and cheese.
The joy and bliss that running can bring. When first moving to SG, I despised running - the heat & humidity here is brutal. But I think I've finally hit the runners high that so many talk about.
A place where I can cycle from one place to the next. I'm not set on a particular destination yet, but France and Japan are top contenders. My favorite travels have been activity-based, touring ones: 7-day Salkantay Trek in Peru, 5-day Palawan Islands Boat Trip in the Philippines. My dream now is to do a cycling tour that allows me to visit a few towns along a beautiful countryside!
More of a guiding question than direct advice: "Who are you choosing to become?" It was a question that was posted all over the walls in my high school Ethics classroom and somehow, it has stayed with me since. Whenever I'm at a crossroads, I find myself asking this question to figure out what to do next.
An architect! I'm now a software engineer, so not too far off :) I'm just architecting digital solutions rather than buildings and spaces.
Basketball. Despite being 160cm in height, I've got good ball-handling skills and a decent shot.
