Profile
Kevin Ong
PhD | Data Engineer | Data Architect | AI Engineer
Experienced data and ML engineer with more than a decade of experience in software/data engineering, data science, and technical management. Kevin has helped businesses improve their data engineering and/or machine learning capabilities by improving processes to unlock additional business values for the organisations.
SELECTED CERTS
Fundamentals of Delta Lake
Issuing Organisation: Databricks
ID: 8157e3fe-545f-3e6b-9cb4-2c77d51a6c1e
SELECTED PUBS
QWERTY: The Effects of Typing on Web Search Behavior
Kevin Ong, Kalervo Järvelin, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2018
Using Information Scent to Understand Mobile and Desktop Web Search Behavior
Kevin Ong, Kalervo Järvelin, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer
In Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference, 2017
Analyzing Web Behaviour in Indoor Retail Spaces
Yongli Ren, Martin Tomko, Flora Dilys Salim, Kevin Ong, Mark Sanderson
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2017
Employment
Equal Experts
Data Principal
Provide consultation to help clients build their AI/ML and data engineering capabilities by:
- designing enterprise data warehouses
- engaging and influencing key stakeholders for data migration best practices
- advising organisations on running and managing generative AI models
HESTA
Data Engineering Consultant
Achievements:
- Advised and implemented Data Vault 2.0 architecture
- Heavily customised dbt for the organisation
- Architected end-to-end data solutions with AWS Lambda, StepFunctions and Redshift
Ascend.io
Solutions Architect
Silicon Valley startup. Worked with customers to build their data engineering capabilities on different IaaS cloud providers (AWS, GCP and Azure) by:
- implementing company's first CICD templates for customers
- creating data engineering solution patterns
- creating architectural solution templates
- adding or improving technical documentation
Listcorp.
Data Architect Consultant
Advised company on data engineering best practices as well as architecting data infrastructure to ingest data from multiple data sources, using Databricks, to create machine learning models for monitoring and predictions.
Qsic
Senior Data Engineer
Building fault tolerant streaming data pipelines using Databricks. Worked with:
- serverless application programming (AWS Lambda)
- python
- Spark SQL
- pyspark, hive
- data partitioning using delta file format (similar to parquet)
- cloud data warehousing using medallion architecture
RedBubble
Data Scientist
This is an MLOps role:
- Use Buildkite, Airflow, and Python to build ML models
- Discover search trends and popularity
- Create personalised recommendations using content filtering
- Use NLP techniques to surface keywords for search recommendations
Servian
Technology Consultant
Consulting at University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
Technical Project Lead
In charge of building and scaling a web search engine, and creating a data lake to store data from various enterprise source systems to deliver a public facing Find an Expert web search application for the University of Melbourne.
Responsibilities include managing the research data and preparing the data for data analytics and reporting findings to various senior and executive stakeholders throughout the University of Melbourne. This includes leading a team of developers/analysts to develop and manage the aforementioned search engine.
RMIT University
Multiple Roles
Instructor (2009 - 2021)
Taught courses on:
- Software Design and Engineering Fundamentals
- Internet of Things
- Java Programming (Basic & Advanced)
- Database Concepts & Web Applications
Lecturer (2014 - 2017)
Overhauled Web Database Application to include Cloud Infrastructure component with bringing on AWS as part of the content delivery for Web Database Application course. Updated the content of Document Markup Languages to include JSON and YAML
Research Assistant (2009 - 2014)
Jan 2013 - Dec 2014: Analysed on a large web log dataset from Westfield retail group.
Dec 2010 - Jul 2011: Analysed web logs from National Archives, UK
Dec 2009 – Mar 2010: Sentiment analysis of blog posts
Education
RMIT University
PhD in Computer Science
Australian Postgraduate Award Scholar 2015 - 2018.
RPS Scholarship 2014.
Multiple other awards.
RMIT University
Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons)
Vice Chancellor's List 2014.
RMIT University
Bachelor of IT (minor in Business Management)
Graduated with Distinction.
High Achievement Award Scholarship.
Nanyang Technological University
Bachelor of Electrical Electronic Engineering
Created Facial Recognition and Detection software.