hello, i'm clara!
clara
fun fact: this image is AI generated! I trained a flux LoRA Model using 10 (pretty scrappy) images of myself and generated this (scarily) realistic image of me in a yellow sundress.
I'm a software engineer, a data science & AI enthusiast, and an experimentalist at heart. I am also a trained chemist and a former journalist.
about me
from journalism to SWE

I am a software engineer with a product mindset. My path into tech wasn't exactly planned - as a journalist, I was looking for ways to make my work more efficient and started building tools to automate parts of my job.

One of the first things I created was a writing assistant that could generate first drafts of news articles. This soon got me hooked and I haven't looked back since!

In my free time, I dabble with a range of AI tools (currently looking at AI agents)

I also teach at Heicoders - a coding school in Singapore, and write technical pieces on Medium - come check it out and give it a follow :)

life outside my 9-5
key strengths

I'm a generalist and a fast learner. I take ideas and turn them into an end product, end to end. I thrive on rapid iteration, moving fast and shipping things that solve real problems.

For leisure, I love hiking, being outdoors in nature, and exploring new food places. Believe it or not, as a creative outlet, I've also been running a home-based F&B business with my partner for 3 years (and counting), selling thousands of nut butters and hundreds of tiramisus – it's been fun!

hobbies
ReactNext.jsTailwindCSSFastAPINode.jsGitDockerPostgreSQLDynamoDBRedisLambdaGCPAWSPythonTypeScript
LLMsAIAgentsRAGLangChain
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