a product driven ai engineer trying to build what people (or agents) want

Clara at AI Engineer Singapore — inaugural AI Engineer Singapore conference with friends

Clara Chong — i trained a flux LoRA Model using 10 scrappy images of myself to generate an image of me in a yellow sundress that i do not own

i trained a flux LoRA Model using 10 scrappy images of myself to generate an image of me in a yellow sundress that i do not own

inaugural AI Engineer Singapore conference with friends

current work

I'm a senior AI engineer at a regulatory intelligence startup based in singapore.
I spend most of my time orchestrating agentic systems to streamline time consuming and messy compliance work for our users so that they can focus on launching products faster across markets.
I talk to customers often to understand their pain points so that I can build features with better taste.

what keeps me up at night

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about how AI is changing the way we build. A concept that's stuck with me is comprehension debt — the gap between how much code exists and how much of it anyone truly understands. As AI takes on more of the heavy lifting, it's made shortcuts easier and quietly eroded some core engineering instincts. I'm still figuring out where the right balance is.

outside my 9-5

I teach Python and GenAI to adult learners at Heicoders (which I really enjoy), contribute to open source (mostly PostHog), and write occasionally — both here and on Medium. Outside of work, I try to stay away from screens: doing acro, or just chasing down good food.