Ong Soo Liew

Senior Managing Consultant, Data Governance & Privacy Architect at IBM

Lead data governance initiatives, setting up governance programs from scratch for clients' Data Mesh; sell IBM tools for data quality, data lineage, and data product hub. For AI governance, explain AI predictions to managers; advise on framework for managing AI/ML risks and harms; identify potential use cases for Agentic AI.

Vice President, Regional Governance & Strategy at UOB

Advised senior stakeholders on digital strategies for analytics projects; shortened ML project lifecycles with analytics governance practices; created pre-joined tables with auto data quality checks; wrapper function to call multiple ML algorithms; introduced MLOps tools to ensure auditability of ML models; drove data democratisation and self-serve analytics; automated features engineering and data engineering scaffolding; led GenAI projects to automate SAR generation and regulatory analyses.

Co-Founder at LLM Consultancy

Negotiated and secured contracts; provided Gen AI consultation and Prompt Engineering training to corporate clients; handled regulatory requirements of setting up and running a legal entity.

Adjunct Lecturer (Data Science & Machine Learning) at Temasek Polytechnic

Mentored adult learners on applying Data Science at their workplaces; facilitated classroom learning and discussion; motivated learners who fell behind.

Solution Architect at Tech Unicorn and Trading Firms

Led a team of 10 data engineers to build analytics platform for MoneyHero Group; architected and built scalable data pipelines on AWS/GCP; advised stakeholders on cost-benefit of architectures; revamped legacy data architectures with DE & DevOps practices (ELT, data warehouse, CI/CD, Terraform); set up staging/dev environments; built Spark pipelines; modeled financial and social data; integrated data protection, data governance & SRE; implemented Great Expectations for data quality; established 24/7 support with Opsgenie.

Data Science Specialist at Banks (DBS / OCBC / SCB)

Rotated across banks on analytics and data migration; automated processes with VBA, Python and SQL; parsed diverse data formats; managed Data Quality; prepared dashboards with QlikView and Tableau; applied data science to improve customer experience (ATM sentiment analysis, forecasting work volume, anomaly detection, customer journey mapping, I-Banking portal improvements).

Senior Managing Consultant, Data Governance & Privacy Architect at IBM

Lead data governance initiatives, establishing governance programs from scratch for clients' Data Mesh implementations; promote IBM data quality, data lineage, and data product hub tooling. Advise on AI governance, explaining model predictions to management, framing risks/harms, and identifying high-potential Agentic AI use cases.

Vice President, Regional Governance & Strategy at UOB

Advised senior stakeholders on digital analytics strategies; shortened ML project lifecycles through analytics governance, pre-joined tables with auto data quality checks, and wrapper functions to run multiple ML algorithms. Led data democratization and automated feature engineering; introduced MLOps practices for auditability; defined data engineering scaffolding and cost-aware architectural decisions; delivered GenAI and large language model (LLM) projects.

Co-Founder at LLM Consultancy

Negotiated and secured client contracts; provided GenAI consultation and Prompt Engineering training; navigated regulatory requirements for setting up and operating a legal entity.

Adjunct Lecturer (Data Science & Machine Learning) at Temasek Polytechnic

Mentored adult learners on applying Data Science in the workplace; facilitated classroom discussions and learning; motivated learners who fell behind.

Solution Architect at Tech Unicorn and Trading Firms (MoneyHero Group, Rio Tinto, Sun Venture)

Led a team of 10 data engineers to build analytics platforms; designed scalable data pipelines (AWS/GCP), managed cost-performance trade-offs, and promoted DE & DevOps best practices (ELT, data warehouse with Athena, GitHub Actions, Terraform). Built Spark pipelines for ingestion from web apps and third-party APIs; modeled financial and social media data; integrated data privacy features and data quality checks (Great Expectations); established SLAs/SLOs and 24/7 support processes.

Data Science Specialist at Banks (DBS / OCBC / SCB)

Rotated across banks on analytics and data migration projects; automated processes with VBA, Python, and SQL; managed data quality; built dashboards with QlikView and Tableau; applied data science to improve customer experience (ATM sentiment analysis, LSTM forecasts, STP anomaly detection, network analysis, Word2Vec-based insights for I-Banking portals).

Senior Managing Consultant, Data Governance & Privacy Architect at IBM

Led data governance initiatives, establishing governance programs for clients' Data Mesh implementations and promoting IBM tools for Data Quality, Data Lineage, and Data Product Hub. Advised on AI governance, explained AI predictions to management, and identified use cases for Agentic AI to manage ML risks and harms.

Vice President, Regional Governance & Strategy at UOB

Advised senior stakeholders on digital analytics strategies and governance to shorten ML project lifecycles. Implemented data democratisation through tool enablement (SQL, Python, EDA) and Superset; automated feature engineering with GenAI; provided data engineering scaffolding to accelerate pipeline development. Led GenAI projects including automated Suspicious Transaction Reports, CrewAI for regulatory guideline analysis, and AgentOps for workflow and token-cost management.

Co-Founder at LLM Consultancy

Negotiated and secured contracts, provided Gen AI consultation and Prompt Engineering training for corporate clients, and handled regulatory requirements for operating a legal entity.

Adjunct Lecturer (Data Science & Machine Learning) at Temasek Polytechnic

Mentored adult learners on applying data science at the workplace, facilitated classroom learning and discussions, and motivated learners who fell behind.

Solution Architect at Tech Unicorn and Trading Firms (MoneyHero Group, Rio Tinto, Sun Venture)

Led a team of 10 data engineers to build analytics platforms; architected and built scalable data pipelines on AWS/GCP with Jira and GitHub; advised on architecture costs and benefits; modernized legacy data architectures (ETL to ELT, data warehouse on Athena, SQL); automated CI/CD and IaC with GitHub Actions and Terraform; built Spark pipelines for data ingestion; modeled financial and social data; integrated data privacy features, data governance, and SRE practices (Great Expectations, dashboards, SLA/SLO, 24/7 support).

Data Science Specialist at Banks (DBS / OCBC / SCB)

Rotated across banks to drive analytics and data migration projects; automated processes with VBA, Python, and SQL; managed data quality and dashboards (QlikView, Tableau); applied data science to improve customer experience (ATM sentiment analysis, LSTM forecasting, anomaly detection for STP, and journey analysis for I-Banking).

Senior Managing Consultant, Data Governance & Privacy Architect at IBM

Data Governance: Setup governance program from scratch for clients’ new Data Mesh; Sell IBM tools for managing Data Quality, Data Lineage, Data Product Hub. AI governance: Explaining AI predictions to managers; Advising on framework for managing AI/ML risks and harms; Identifying potential use cases for Agentic AI.

Vice President, Regional Governance & Strategy at UOB

Advised senior stakeholders on digital strategies for analytics projects; Shorten ML project life cycle with analytics governance practices; Created pre-joined tables with auto data quality checks; Wrapper function to call multiple ML algorithms; Introduced MLOps tools to ensure auditability of ML models; Data Democratisation, training, and data engineering scaffolding; GenAI projects for automation and governance.

Co-Founder at LLM Consultancy

Negotiated and secured contracts for the company; Provided Gen AI consultation and Prompt Engineering training to corporate clients; Handled regulatory requirements of setting up and running a legal entity.

Adjunct Lecturer (Data Science & Machine Learning) at Temasek Polytechnic

Mentored adult learners on applying Data Science at their workplaces; Facilitated classroom learning and discussion; Motivated learners who fall behind.

Solution Architect at Tech Unicorn and Trading Firms (MoneyHero Group, Rio Tinto, Sun Venture)

Led a team of 10 data engineers to build analytics platform; Architected and built scalable data pipelines on AWS/GCP; Improved cost-benefit via DE & DevOps; Shifted from ETL to ELT; Data Warehouse (Athena) and SQL; Automated CI/CD and IaC with GitHub Actions and Terraform; Set up Stag/Dev environments; Built Spark pipelines; Modeled financial and social media data; Embedded data protection, data governance, and SRE practices.