Admond Lee

Founder

Singapore, Singapore8 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • 2x founder with one successful exit.
  • Expert in data science and startup development.
  • Passionate about teaching and sharing knowledge.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Education expert with a strong background in data science and startup development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringData ScienceConsultingVideo ProductionStorytellingProduct DevelopmentWritingMachine LearningData Visualization

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Corporate TrainingFinal Cut ProGraphic DesignCommunicationVideo EditingScriptingTeam LeadershipSystem DesignPythonMongoDBFinTechStartup DevelopmentREST APIFundraising

About

I’m a physicist turned data scientist, now a founder building The Runway Ventures — a weekly newsletter to help people learn from startup failures to become the top 1% founders. I spent the first 3 years of my career helping companies solve business problems as a data scientist. Meantime, I was also a corporate trainer, speaker, and writer in data science. Then, I spent the next 3 years building startups. 1 failed, 1 acquired. 🧗🏻 This is how I got here: • Got my degree in Physics from Nanyang Technological University. • Started as a data scientist at SME (Titansoft), then MNC (Micron) before joining a startup (Hackwagon). • Quit my job during COVID (wild timing), joined an incubator, found a co-founder, and built my 1st startup (Staq). Spent 1.5 years building Staq but we failed. Despite our mistakes, we learned a lot. • Was very lost after my 1st startup’s failure. Spent the next 2 months doing self-reflection and exploring my curiosity. • Started my 2nd startup building Leadgram at an influencer marketing agency (X10 Media). 8 months later, we got acquired by The Smart Local (TSL) Media Group. *** After 3 years of building startups, I'm convinced that mistakes are the best teachers to become a better founder. For any startup, there are many ways to succeed, but only a few ways to die. That’s why I started The Runway Ventures. Every Sunday, I analyse and share 1 failed startup story, 2 mistakes made, and 3 lessons learned with actionable tips to help you learn from startup failures. Real life case studies, with key takeaways you can apply in your business. No theories or BS. 99% of startups failed because founders made mistakes. You’ll learn why and how startups failed to become the top 1% founder. 🤝🏻 Join us here (it’s free!): www.therunway.ventures 🔗 FB: @admond1994 🔗 Twitter: @admond1994 🔗 Instagram: @admond1994

Experience

Fathom - ai meeting assistant

Angel Investor

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Fathom records, transcribes, highlights, and summarizes your meetings so you can focus on the conversation.
  • (proud user of Fathom)

Beehiiv

Angel Investor

May 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos

  • beehiiv empowers you to create, monetize, and grow your newsletter with an all-in-one publishing suite.
  • (right team, great product, crazy execution)

The runway ventures

Founder

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Get the weekly newsletter to help you learn from startup mistakes and become a better founder.
  • Every Sunday, we analyse and share:
  • 1 failed startup ☠️
  • 2 costly mistakes made ⚠️
  • 3 lessons learned for founders 🧠
  • 90% of startups fail because founders made mistakes. Don't be one of them.
  • Subscribe for free here 👉🏻 www.therunway.ventures

Chatted.ai

Founder

Jul 2023Feb 2024 · 7 mos · Singapore

  • Get AI insights from data in seconds and make informed decisions 10x faster.
  • 1. Upload your data
  • 2. Ask questions
  • 3. Get actionable insights
  • That's it.
  • ❌ No more formulas
  • ❌ No more pivot table
  • ❌ No more learning how to code
  • ❌ No more waiting for your reports
  • ✅ Just ask.
  • Sign up for free here 👉🏻 chatted.ai
  • ... and start chatting today 🧠

X10 media

CTO (Acquired by TSL Media Group)

Jun 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Singapore

  • X10 Media, a regional influencer agency established over 7 years ago before Influencer Marketing became part of the mainstay, holds a network of over 3,000 Influencers with a combined 30 million network reach in Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia.
  • The agency has served over 1,000 brands including Pepsi, Singtel, Capitaland, LVMH, Warner Music, Owndays, Casetify among others.
  • With its proprietary Leadgram technology and data-driven insights, X10 Media empowers brands to achieve exceptional results through influencer campaigns.
  • X10 media currently owns 3 business units — Faves, X10 Ventures & TheSpokenTribe, that span regionally across 3 countries in Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia.
  • 🌏 Faves (micro-influencer marketing arm) runs a combined network of 10 million reach in Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia.
  • 🌏 X10 Ventures (technology arm) empowers brands with our proprietary technology.
  • Leadgram was launched as a first-of-its-kind software in Asia to deepen social media campaign ROI & sales/traffic conversions for brands & companies.
  • We retarget consumers that engages on influencers/brand content to create conversations leading to higher call to actions.
  • 🌏 The Spoken Tribe (LinkedIn marketing arm) brings professional voices to endorse companies and brands through the word-of-mouth recommendations.
  • 👉🏻 With a commitment to excellence and innovation, X10 Media continues to drive impactful influencer marketing solutions for brands. Visit www.x10.media to learn more.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Data EngineeringData Science

Youtube

Content Creator

Jan 2023Dec 2023 · 11 mos

  • Making videos focusing on data science, programming, and tech stuff in general.
  • 👉🏻 Link to channel: youtube.com/@admond1994

Staq

Co-Founder / CTO

Oct 2021Jul 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Singapore

  • At Staq, we are building the universal API to help fintech companies securely access financial data from SMEs in a quick and easy way across Southeast Asia.
  • We are reimagining the technical infrastructure to drive financial inclusion for businesses in Southeast Asia.
  • Our mission is to empower you to build amazing financial products for businesses with more visibility and informed decisions.
  • With Staq:
  • You can easily and securely access financial data from businesses for SME lending, user identity verification, compliance and KYC etc.
  • Businesses can instantly share their data instead of sifting through tedious UX from multiple banks to extract bank statements.
  • Headquartered in Singapore, Staq is backed by Entrepreneur First, the leading startup incubator in the world.
StorytellingFinal Cut ProGraphic DesignVideo ProductionCommunicationVideo Editing+1

Entrepreneur first

Founder in Residence (EFSG10)

Jul 2021Dec 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Singapore

  • Entrepreneur First is the place where the ambitious come together to build globally important technology companies.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Data EngineeringProduct DevelopmentTeam LeadershipSystem DesignPython+4

Hackwagon academy

Data Science Instructor

Aug 2020Mar 2021 · 7 mos · Singapore

  • Making data science accessible to everyone through education.
  • Delivered and taught data science courses (DS101 & DS102) for public and corporates with the overall satisfaction score of more than 9/10.
  • Created a new curriculum (Data Storytelling) and enhanced existing curriculum that is of highest quality and industry relevance by working closely with the Academy Team at a fast‑paced startup environment.
  • Successfully hired instructors and teaching assistants with relevant experience and culture fit with the company within a short period of time.
Data ScienceWriting

Kdnuggets

Contributing Writer | Data Science

Jan 2019Jul 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • KDnuggets™ is a leading site on AI, Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science, and Machine Learning.
  • Top Blogger in April 2019 (Silver Badge) - How To Go Into Data Science: Ultimate Q&A for Aspiring Data Scientists with Serious Guides
  • Top Blogger in July 2019 (Platinum Badge) - Top 13 Skills To Become a Rockstar Data Scientist
  • Top Blogger in July 2019 (Silver Badge) - Top 10 Data Science Leaders You Should Follow
Machine LearningTableauPySparkGitPythonSnowflake+3

Tech in asia

Community Writer | Data Science

Oct 2018May 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Singapore

  • Contributing to the data science community with my experience and knowledge
Data ScienceWriting

Admond lee

Consulting Data Scientist | Corporate Trainer

Sep 2018Present · 7 yrs 6 mos · Singapore

  • On a mission to make data science accessible to everyone through consulting & corporate training.
  • Data science consulting and analytics services for startups, SMEs, and marketing agencies.
  • ✅ Previous projects include:
  • AI & marketing consulting
  • Web analytics & data visualisation
  • Web scraping & marketing analytics
  • Crypto price prediction model using deep learning with millions of sentiment data points
  • ✅ Corporate & Institutional Training (Data Science / Analytics):
  • SPH, DBS, MINDEF, Singtel, NTU, NUS, UTAR, Decoded
  • ▶️ Learn more at www.admondlee.com
Data ScienceConsultingCorporate Training

Micron technology

Data Scientist

Sep 2018Aug 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Singapore

  • Smart Manufacturing & AI
  • Improved the speed of SQL data query from Teradata and data retrieval from MongoDB by more than 80%.
  • Developed Clustering and Decision Tree models using Python with PCA in collaboration with external vendors and various stakeholders.
  • Productionised the machine learning models into business processes that provided end‑to‑end data science solution to users with data visualisation; improved overlay related yield gains by 27% that resulted in the ROI of more than $4M.
  • Led a team of data engineers and machine learning engineers to develop a standardised and scalable analytics pipeline as IoT solution using PySpark; reduced future development time significantly and completed the running of 700 analytics models within 6 minutes.
Data SciencePythonTraining

Titansoft pte ltd

Research Engineer (Machine Learning)

Jun 2018Sep 2018 · 3 mos · Singapore

  • Focused on Artificial Intelligence in human behavior imitation to enhance the current automation system
  • Understood business objectives; performed data mining and Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) automation
  • Built an Advanced Betting Machine via machine learning models (XGBoost) using Python which exceeded the company’s profit margins
Data ScienceWriting

Medium

Contributing Writer | Towards Data Science

Apr 2018Dec 2022 · 4 yrs 8 mos

  • Top Writer in Education
Product DevelopmentFundraisingStartup Development

Quantum inventions (qi)

Data Scientist Intern

Dec 2017May 2018 · 5 mos · Singapore

  • Researched and proposed various machine learning and deep learning models (SVR, MLP, LSTM, SSNN) to the management team.
  • Performed data preprocessing and data manipulation; built and trained a Support Vector Regression (SVR) model using Python (Sklearn, Pandas) with the accuracy of more than 90%.
  • Developed Long Short‑Term Memory (LSTM) models using TensorFlow in Python that outperformed the current navigation system with the higher accuracy of multi‑step travel time prediction.
Machine LearningXGBoostPython

Cern

Summer Research Intern

Jun 2017Oct 2017 · 4 mos · Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

  • Conducted a search for heavy resonances which decayed in a pair of top‑quarks in association with a Standard Model Higgs boson.
  • Executed data analysis techniques using machine learning ‑ Boosted Decision Trees in Toolkit for Multivariate Data Analysis (TMVA) with ROOT for event reconstruction using terabytes of data via Worldwide LHC Computing Grid & Cloud Computing.
  • Successfully pinpointed a new particle at low mass range; accomplished a good observable by solving kinematic constraints.
Machine LearningPythonDeep Learning

Education

Nanyang Technological University Singapore

Bachelor of Science (Hons): Physics and Applied Physics — Physics

Jan 2014Jan 2018

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