People in the room.

Marcus Liang

Builds AI-assisted software workflows that connect user feedback to human-reviewed fixes.

Interests

Chatbot intake · GitHub issues · OpenClaw · Claude Code · Human validation

Projects

Harwav Order Hub

Turns chatbot feedback into GitHub issues and AI-generated fixes, with human review before deployment.

Presentations

Leong Han Wai

Keeps Techies feeling like a true community: a place to connect, geek out, and go deeper into the craft together.

Ee One Lim

Ee One Lim

Builds apps for learning and care, from Spanish through music to finding caregiver support.

Interests

LRCLib · Stitch + Google MCP · Heartmula · Open-source streaming · Frontend API calls · RAG · n8n · Postgres · Dynamic model selector · Web search

Projects

Kantaro

Teaches Spanish through music, using real lyrics and open-source components.

Website

Care Compass

Helps caregivers find support resources using retrieval-augmented generation.

GitHub · Website

Presentations

Jesse Sng

Jesse Sng

Explores visual automation and AI content workflows across text, images, audio and video.

Interests

Drag-and-drop flow · Model escalation · AI documentation · Parallel generation · Fail-continue · Imagen · GPT Image · Remotion · ComfyUI

Projects

Drag Flow

Connects automation workflows by dragging and linking nodes.

AI Content Pipeline

Turns source material into podcasts, blogs, images and audio in parallel.

Presentations

Abdelrahman Fliou

Abdelrahman Fliou

Builds a pricing copilot that combines document processing with deterministic analysis.

Interests

PDF parsing · Docling · MarkItDown · deterministic code · shadcn

Projects

TransPrice

A pricing copilot that turns PDFs into Markdown before model work.

Presentations

Kai Ming N.

Cultivates relationships with sponsors, venues, speakers, and ecosystem partners to create more opportunities for the community.

Gaurav Kumar Manek

Gaurav Kumar Manek

Shares practical experience in immutable data storage, AI agent evaluations and guardrails.

Interests

Immutable storage · Functional programming · FastAPI · DuckDB · Postgres upsert · LLM evals · Guardrails · Deterministic checks · Blast radius

Projects

Visigoth.ai · Data Storage

An immutable storage architecture from Gaurav’s previous startup.

Slides on GitHub

Presentations

Esther Tan

Brings Techies to life through event highlights, social recaps, marketing assets, and the photos that capture the room.

Arul Kumaran

Arul presenting programmatic video tooling at Roast #3

Arul Kumaran

Works with programmatic video, voice cloning and open-weight models for media workflows.

Interests

Remotion · Voicebox · FFmpeg · Gemma

Projects

Programmatic Video Toolchain

Combines Remotion, Voicebox, FFmpeg and Gemma for video rendering, voice cloning and summarisation.

Website

Presentations

Ying Zhao

Ying Zhao

Applies production-style data engineering to personal analytics and understanding LinkedIn reach.

Interests

Databricks · Medallion ETL · One Big Table · API · Retries & backoff

Projects

Personal LinkedIn Analytics Pipeline

A Databricks pipeline using medallion ETL to analyse LinkedIn performance.

GitHub · Blog series

Presentations

Kaleb Nim

Kaleb presenting the Voice Resume at Roast #4

Kaleb Nim

Explores conversational AI interfaces, speech recognition and real-time voice responses.

Interests

ASR · Whisper TTS · Oracle Cloud free tier · Guardrails · persona.md

Projects

Voice Resume

Lets employers ask questions and receive real-time spoken answers from an AI-powered resume.

GitHub · Website

Presentations

Richard Lee

Richard Lee

Builds multi-agent workflows for discovering business opportunities, with a focus on grounding and orchestration.

Interests

Multi-agent · Orchestration · Grounding · Containerised auth

Projects

Agents To Find Business Opportunities

An executive agent coordinates purpose-built child agents to discover business opportunities.

Slides on GitHub

Presentations

Alec Teo

Alec Teo

Builds playful image experiences and explores how apps can become more agent-friendly.

Interests

Supabase auth · Clerk · Data schema · Agents-ready · Imagen

Projects

PixelPuggles

Pixelates and animates photos, with agent-friendly interaction among its design goals.

Presentations

Dalton Prescott Ng

Dalton Prescott Ng

Works on graph capabilities in PostgreSQL to help AI agents navigate relationships between entities.

Interests

Graph DB · PostgreSQL · RAG vs Graph · Hydration

Projects

pgGraph

A virtual graph layer for AI agents built on PostgreSQL.

GitHub

Presentations

Kong

Kong

A solo, non-technical founder building a paid AI companion with AI-assisted development.

Interests

Vercel · Vanilla JS · Supabase / Postgres · Stripe · Claude / GPT / DeepSeek

Projects

Zhiji / 知己

An AI companion that uses Chinese astrology charts to personalise conversations.

Website

Presentations

Fernandi

Fernandi

Builds tools for independently verifying AI-generated code and making agent changes inspectable.

Interests

Playwright · Agent guardrails · Git diff · Claude CLI

Projects

Canary Lab

Independently verifies AI output with an AI repair loop for Playwright and a skill for coding tools.

GitHub

Presentations

Krishna

Krishna

Explores server-first, real-time products with Phoenix LiveView and research-led UX.

Interests

Phoenix · LiveView · WebSockets · UX research

Projects

Unfinal

A server-first real-time product using exe.dev, Phoenix LiveView and WebSockets.

GitHub · Website

Presentations