Backend · MLOps · AI/ML Engineer

Sai Mun Lee

I build ML systems that ship and stay healthy. Currently a senior engineer at SAP, leading recommendation systems and tabular foundation models from prototype to production on cloud-native infrastructure.

Résumé

01 / EXPERIENCE

Senior Software Engineer & Co-Product Owner · SAP Asia

Dec 2020 – Present

Singapore

  • Architect and co-lead the development of Tabular AI, SAP’s platform for consuming Tabular Foundation Models — pre-trained SAP RPT-1 models that perform classification and regression on tabular data without per-task training, running entirely on SAP AI Core.
  • Led the design and development of an enterprise-scale microservice application serving job recommendations (Personalized Recommendations and People Like Me) to thousands of users, built on AWS S3, Docker, and Cloud Foundry.
  • Designed and implemented scalable APIs and background workers for tenant onboarding and training-cycle management on Cloud Foundry, serving thousands of requests daily.
  • Integrated Dynatrace for in-depth system performance monitoring — metrics, alarms, and dashboards — and Kibana for robust logging and correlation-ID tracking to speed up troubleshooting.
  • Owned CI/CD: pipeline integration, pull requests, code reviews, and load/stress plus unit/integration/e2e testing.
  • Ran weekly stakeholder meetings, code reviews, pair programming, and design sessions to keep the codebase reusable and maintainable, and authored developer, consumer, and customer documentation.
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Docker
  • Cloud Foundry
  • PostgreSQL
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Jenkins/Github Actions
  • Kubernetes

Lead Software Engineer · TAU Express

Apr 2020 – Dec 2020

Singapore

  • Lead engineer on a knowledge-management system that lets users retrieve and gather insights from cybersecurity documents.
  • Worked directly with users to gather requirements and facilitated communication between the users and the development team.
  • React
  • Django
  • Docker
  • Neo4j
  • ElasticSearch
  • Cytoscape.js

Research Engineer · SPIRIT Research Centre (NTU)

Feb 2018 – Mar 2020

Singapore

  • Full-stack web developer on a Smart Nation project, building an Intelligent Case Retrieval System (ICRS) for efficient retrieval of key legal documents using Django and Vue.js.
  • Built a web crawler with Selenium and BeautifulSoup to scrape Chinese news articles and social-media sources (e.g. Reddit) for indexing and retrieval.
  • Developed a working GUI prototype in Python (PySide2).
  • Python
  • Django
  • Vue.js
  • Selenium
  • BeautifulSoup
  • PySide2

02 / NOW

Deploying tabular foundation models at scale — bridging research prototypes and production infrastructure at SAP.