I'm a technology leader with experience at global companies including Dyson, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat and Yahoo!. I focus on making artificial intelligence accessible and practical for everyone.
AI, Life & Everything (Weekly)
- Did Your AI Just Sigh? (Paperback, 2026)
- The LLM Stack: A Practical Guide to Understanding AI (Digital, 2025)
- Neurons & Nonsense – How AI rewired my creative DNA (Paperback / Kindle, 2024)
- Bedtime Stories from an AI (Paperback / Kindle, 2023)
- The Bot Who Loved Me (Paperback / Kindle, 2023)
- Humans are Everything, 2025 on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube
- Bach Sonatas and Chorales, 2024 on Spotify and Apple Music.
- Polly: A dictation app for MacOS powered by Groq
- gcast: Google Cast Discovery & Control CLI on local Wifi
- Simple Memory MCP server: showing how to build memory tools for LLMs
- glean: A command-line tool for analyzing text using OpenRouter API with language models.
- glimpse: A command-line tool for analyzing images using OpenRouter API with multimodal models.
- graft: A command-line tool for creating images using OpenRouter API with multimodal models.
- ORTB: A reusable Python framework for building Telegram chat-bots powered by OpenRouter
- SEA-LION on Ollama: making AI Singapore's LLM accessible to everyone
- GPT-4 Telegram Bot: Your own Telegram bot, powered by GPT-4. Configure and run within minutes!
- LLM Browser: Stay up to date with new LLms and their capabilities.
- Spock: API Request Inspector & Webhooks
- TXTpresso: DNS-based Message Broker
- Yoisho Open Banking Project
- Bambleweeny: A lightweight key-value store and message broker based on HTTP/REST
- keiju - Minimalist API Gateway in a ~25 MB Container.
- samsa converts between OpenAPI v2 and v3 formats (YAML/JSON)
- majime – Dead Simple API Unit Testing
- APAC Art x Tech Hackathon @ SMU (January 2026)
- NUS E&A Learning Symposium – Keynote (October 2025)
- AI Stories at Boat Quay (September 2025)
- The Future of Secure, Agentic AI-Driven Software Development – AWS / GitLab (August 2025)
- If Thomas Edison Could Code: Corporate Innovation in a New Era (edb Singapore) (July 2025)
- AI Stories @ Sims Avenue (May 2025)
- Windsurf Launch Singapore (April 2025)
- HEINEKEN GenAI Lab Launch (March 2025)
- VIP AI Leadership Breakfast (March 2025)
- AI + Robotics Night (March 2025)
- Downtown AI Stories (February 2025)
- AI For Humanity Forum (December 2024)
- OpenAI & GovTech Hackathon Singapore (December 2024)
- AI Masterclass (December 2024)
- Build Your AI Assistant for Free: A Guide for Non-Techies (November 2024)
- GovTech + OpenAI Hackathon
- Business + AI (November 2024)
- Innovating in Asia: Why Singapore is Asia’s AI Startup Hub (November 2024)
- SIM Academy AI Event (October 2024)
- Katong AI Night (September 2024)
- Web3 + AI: What’s Brewing? (September 2024)
- My AI Journey so far (September 2024)
- Orchard AI Stories (August 2024)
- Saigon AI Night, Ho Chi Minh City (August 2024)
- Katong AI Night (July 2024)
- Women Dev SG: Recruitment Fireside Chat (June 2024)
- Did You Mean to Add an Attachment? (March 2024)
- My AI is an Emo Artist and That's Okay! (February 2024)
- Brushstrokes and Bytes: Art & AI Workshop (November 2023)
- Tech Week Singapore 2023 (October 2023)
- Schneider Electric Innovation Day (July 2023)
- Build a Bot (March 2023)
- ChatGPT @ ACS (March 2023)
- Data Science Meetup @ Dyson HQ (February 2023)
- AI @ Work (February 2023)
- Electric Minds: The Year in AI (December 2022)
- Electric Minds: Talking with Sam (December 2022)
- Global AI Developer Days (November 2022)
- Fintech Festival (November 2022)
- Big Data & AI / Cloud Expo Asia (October 2022)
- AI @ SIM (September 2022)
- Electric Minds: Two and a Half Humans (September 2022)
- API Days Hong Kong (August 2022)
- Singapore Healthcare Management (August 2022)
- The Power of Networks, Raffles Institution (July 2022)
- Cloud Fundamentals (June 2022)
- API Days Singapore -- Teaser Video (April 2022)
- Innovate & Build Fast - CMC Vietnam (April 2022)
- Creating Art – Together with AI (January 2022)
- APPETIZER Hackathon, Seoul (January 2022)
- AI @ Singapore Fintech Festival (November 2021)
- API Days Hong Kong (August 2021)
- Introducing the NUS Fintech Lab at Singapore NTUC LIT DISCOvery (July 2021)
- Singapore Ministry of Health – Webinar (April 2021)
- Python Web Conf 2021 (March 2021)
- API Days Paris (November 2020)
- FinTech SG Intro (October 2020)
- API Days Jakarta (September 2020)
- API Days Australia (September 2020)
- SCALE Jakarta (April 2020)
- 'Working from Mars - Running Digital Events' (March 2020)
- API Craft Jakarta (February 2020)
- 'Working from Mars' – Online Meetup on The Future of Work - Event Landing Page (February 2020)
- Guest Lecturing @ National University of Singapore (February 2020)
- Python User Group (November 2019)
- API Craft Meetup Singapore (November 2019) (October 2019)
- API Asia, Sri Lanka (October 2019)
- API Days Melbourne (September 2019)
- API Meetup Sydney (September 2019)
- Microsoft Data Engineering Meetup Singapore (June 2019)
- API Days Helsinki, London, Melbourne, Paris, San Francisco, Zurich – Hands-on Session (throughout 2019)
- Kafka Meetup Helsinki (June 2019)
- Open Banking @ API Days Singapore (April 2019)
- DevOpsDays Jakarta (April 2019)
- RedisConf San Francisco (April 2019)
- Stripe - API for Humans (March 2019)
- PyCon Bangkok (June 2018)
- Redis Meetup Singapore (April 2018)
- AI at your Fingertips - Bash Event (June 2017)
- Cloud Application Development Bootcamp (May 2017)
- Azure Bootcamp Singapore - Containers on Azure (April 2017)
- SuSE Expert Days Jakarta (February 2017)
- IPOP Japan - Coexistence of IPv4 and IPv6 for delivering IOT Capabilities using Open Source Technologies (June 2016)
- Ingram Micro SWDDC Kuala Lumpur (September 2015)
- Red Hat Open Innovation Symposium - OpenStack and OpenShift (May 2015)
- OpenStack Deployments Around the World – Beijing (May 2015)
- Nuage Networks - Integration with Red Hat Cloud Management Platforms (October 2014)
- Red Hat OpenStack @ Dell Summit (October 2014)
- Cloud Computing for Developers – Spring User Group (March 2014)
- Architecting Clouds with IBM (August 2012)
- Provisioning Cloud Environments with HP OO (December 2008)
- The Consciousness in the Machine (June 2025)
- The Intergalactic Guide to LLM Parameter Sizes (March 2025)
- I'm an AI and This Is What Goes on Inside My 'Brain' (November 2024)
- Getting Started with AI Coding Assistants (October 2024)
- An Interview With... Me! (October 2024)
- Is AI About to Go Off the Rails? (September 2024)
- Crashing Bots with Killer Convos (September 2024)
- The AI That Dreamed of Being Murakami (May 2024)
- "Unraveling the Intricate Tapestry of AI's Meticulous Verbosity" (May 2024)
- When an Entire Universe Fits Into a Shoe Box (May 2024)
- The AI Force Awakens (April 2024)
- Turning AI from Dry to Dreamy with a Magic Dial (February 2024)
- The Grand Duel: GPT-4 vs. Google's Gemini Ultra (February 2024)
- Are Artificial Language Sweeteners Hijacking AI-generated Text? (February 2024)
- Navigating the AI Zoo (January 2024)
- Painting With Pixels: When AI Companions Get Artsy (November 2023)
- What Exactly is my Writing Style? (November 2023)
- Life, Laughs, and Bots: My Lifelong Adventures with AI (September 2023)
- Large Language Models and the Need for a Plan B: Are You Prepared? (September 2023)
- Writing at Lightning Speed: From Idea to Article in 60 Minutes (August 2023)
- How Did You Make These Bots? (August 2023)
- How to Train Your AI: Unleashing Those Digital Dragons (August 2023)
- How Generative AI Rewired my Creative DNA (August 2023)
- Is Generative AI the 易經 of the 21st Century? (August 2023)
- When Robots Write the News, Humans Must Become More Human Than Ever (August 2023)
- When an AI Creates Another AI (July 2023)
- Me, Myself, and AI: Where Does the Line Blur Between Organic and Digital? (July 2023)
- TinyML and AI on the Edge: Can Machine Learning Fit into 256 Kilobytes? (July 2023)
- Playing '20 Questions' with AI (June 2023)
- MLOps: Taking AI/ML From the Basement Into the Boardroom (June 2023)
- The Book I Never Published (May 2023)
- Goldbach’s Conjecture: Can AI and Math Geniuses Crack the Code Together? (May 2023)
- J-Guts and the Titans of IT (May 2023)
- Humans, Bots, and '1984': Two AIs Walk into a Bar (May 2023)
- AI, Everything, Everywhere, All at Once! (April 2023)
- The Infinity Hotel (April 2023)
- An Interview with GPT-4 (March 2023)
- Goodbye, Metaverse. Hello, Real World! (March 2023)
- How To Write a Novel in One Week (February 2023)
- Copy That: Digital Twins and the Future of Manufacturing (January 2023)
- An AI Christmas Carol (December 2022)
- AI and the Future of Humanity (November 2022)
- We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (November 2022)
- How AI Is Changing the Way We Work (October 2022)
- When Huxley Met Samantha (September 2022)
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (August 2022)
- The Imitation Game (August 2022)
- Does Google's AI Dream Of Electric Sheep? (June 2022)
- Books I'd Love To Read – But They Don't Exist (November 2021)
- Bedtime Stories from an AI (November 2021)
- Coffee with Stephen Hawking (October 2021)
- Asking your friendly AI about Digital Transformation (October 2021)
- This Article on AI was written by an AI (September 2021)
- Microservices & Agility (german, February 2021)
- The role of organizational culture in Digital Transformation (October 2020)
- The Digital Mindset (August 2020)
- The Fallacy of the One-Stop Shop (June 2020)
- Microservices: Build for Speed, Design for Change (May 2020)
- Get Out Of Your Kitchen! (March 2020)
- Collaborate – Or Die (November 2019)
- Bambleweeny – It's like WhatsApp, just for Machines (June 2019)
- 50 Lines of Python: Spotify, APIs & OAuth (January 2019)
- Thinking Distributed (May 2018)
- The Intergalactic Guide to Blockchain (January 2018)
- Making Sense of Open APIs (January 2018)
- On APIs and Tools that don't have one (September 2017)
- Why go cloud? Microsoft Blog (March 2017)
- Did this AI bot feel hungry after looking at all my Instagram photos? (March 2017)
- Infographics visual image evaluation across models
- Image generation bias and forced distribution
- Semantic Lens – LLM-driven knowledge extraction with interactive visualization
- Gemma 3 Model Evaluation (March 2025)
- Huxley - a friendly and helpful AI you can speak with on Telegram
- Marvin – a robot with quite some attitude (Telegram)
- Samantha – an AI who may as well be your best friend! (Telegram)
- Coffee with Stephen Hawking
- Legal Advice – Bot (Prototype)
- Various Bot Experiments
- Various Chats with an AI
- Huxley and Sam talking with each other
- Dave and Sam talking about Humans
- Interviewing GPT-4
- A Shakespeare Sonnet
- The Seabird – poem in the style of Henry David Thoreau
- The Joy of Eating Pudding – poem in the style of T.S. Eliot
- Poems, Haiku style
- New Yorker: Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier
- Books that don't exist
- TV show episodes that don't exist
- Movie sequels
- Star Wars Episode X
- Arthur Conan Doyle writing for the New York Times
- Conversation between GPT-3, Siri, and Google Assistant
- Electric Dreams - New Episodes
- Predicting LinkedIn Articles
- Song Lyrics: Rolling Stones – Singapore
- Video Avatar (script written by a human)
- Avatar based on existing voice track --> Original Video
- Aristotle giving a commencement address --> rendered from this AI generated text
- Deep Fake – Uli's Voice
- A jazzy tune for saxophone
- Chinese --> Original Video
- Vietnamese --> Original Video
- Korean --> Original Video
- Thai --> Original Video
- Bahasa indonesia --> Original Video
- Hindi --> Original Video
- English --> Original Video
- Pictures Of The Floating World – An Art Collaboration Between Human And AI
- OpenAI DALL-E – selected images with prompts
- Generate visuals for your slides
- DevOps Course – Fintech Labs, National University of Singapore
- MCP Server Reference Implementation
- LLM + RAG + Chroma Vector DB
- API Challenge - an interactice scavenger hunt around the world. Used at API Days 2019
- API Builder Learning Lab (Cloud)
- API Builder Learning Lab (Local Install)
- API Builder Learning Lab: MySQL
- Axway API Management SOAP to REST transformation (Video)
- Docker Getting Started
- Ansible Hands-On Exercise
- Redis Getting Started
- MongoDB Getting Started
- majime Hands-On Exercise
- k3s Getting Started
- API Stickers
- k3s Exercise
An interactive web app that lets you dive into the harmonies of Bach's chorale BWV 269
Using cognitive services & computer vision to go through a feed of Instagram photos
Tracking the International Space station over the course of one day and visualizing the flight path on a Google Earth like globe
Google Maps visualization of Singapore's busy buses.
A refreshingly depressed robot from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - on Twitter!
Look into the camera and it will render dots onto your eyes, a square around your face and take a guess on your gender and age
Computer Vision AI looking at every single frame and tells us what it sees
Using APIs to find out how much time I usually spend waiting for my UBER to arrive
Not the most visual hack, built just to make a point. You could have an API that you query over DNS/UDP with short TTL using TXT records. Try this: dig sj.sotong.io TXT +short and you'll get a short joke (base64 encoded)!
Get details and an analysis of a Spotify Playlist
