is a product engineer,
hackathon athlete, and
cross-domain builder
I build things with strong product sense, practical software engineering, and an obsession with user needs.
Recently, my interests lie in AI-native products, augmented forms of information, digital social interaction, publishing, and taxation. I constantly spark ideas from identifying needs, and engineer systems of intersecting technology to answer.
My recent projects are towards applications of Generative AI, Human-like Agents, and Tooling for AI agents.
I am an AI and Product Engineer with Product Management skills.
Check out
- ✨Hackathons: takeaways and stories derived from 24/34 wins
- 📚Writings and Essays: my thoughts and perspectives
- 💼Works: write-ups for experiences
- 🌱Learning Sources: books, podcasts, and videos I've digested
Currently
- 📦 Building and shipping AI products past the hackathon stage (current: Discord community tooling, and a tax agent)
- I want to be in the US Bay Area (open to NYC) to build with the best.
I have access to the H1B1 visa; which is non-lottery, fast under-a-month processing, and without a 100k fee
- 🏆 a top hacker in Australia for hackathons (build a product that solves a problem)
24/34 hackathon wins. 18 wins with strangers. 3 solo wins. Won at Stanford x2, MIT x4, Yale, Meta, Microsoft. Pre-LLM era hacker :')
Formerly
- Senior Product Engineer @SimConverse, AI video conversations for healthcare professionals
- Software/Data Platform Engineer @Commbank, Australia's largest bank
- Builder, Team Lead @Sundai Club, MIT and Harvard builders making AI projects every Sunday
- Electrical Engineering & Finance @Uni. of Western Australia
- Software Engineering Fellow @Headstarter
- Electrical Engineering Intern (Instrumentation and Control Systems) @ Chevron
- MedTech Engineer @Perth BioDesign (modelled after Stanford BioDesign)
- Research Assistant @ Uni. of Western Australia Robotics & Automation Lab, REV Project
first students in Australia to work on an autonomous bus
- Control Engineering Intern @Water Corporation
- Undergraduate Business Intelligence Engineer @Worley
- Pro bono consultant with Bain & Company mentorship
- Explored machine learning since 2016
- Lieutenant, Battalion Ops., Infantry Officer during military service in Singapore
- Academically, in my cohort's top 2%
Connecting the Dots recounts bits of my journey so far.
Reach out
I am especially drawn to small, intense teams: the kind that can form a product team, ship something in two weeks, and refine the idea with real feedback.
Reach me at hi [at] joeykoh [dot] com, or send a connection message on LinkedIn.