name: Prasanna Brabourame
role: Forward Deployed AI Specialist @ NCS AI Central
mission: "The gap between an AI demo and a production system is where I work."
years_in_tech: 10+
currently:
- Embedded in Singapore Government GenAI & agentic AI programmes (Gov+ · Whole-of-Government)
- Partnering with GovTech, Google and the National AI Group
- Building with Claude, Gemini, Vertex AI Agent Engine & Model Context Protocol (MCP)
how_i_work:
embed: "inside the client's walls — their use cases, constraints and data rules"
build: "the whole system myself — front end, AI pipeline, security, infra"
harden: "for the day after go-live — retries, watchdogs, audits, backstops"
speaks: [English, Tamil, TypeScript, Python, Go]
fun_fact: "I trust an LLM exactly as far as its deterministic backstop can throw it"Production systems in domains where mistakes are expensive. Code is client-owned & private — war stories available over ☕.
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AI document review for Singapore's halal certification authority — classifies 25 document types, validates them against the full certification rule set, and never lets the LLM make a safety-critical call alone.
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Automates compliance review of Corporate Service Providers against ~40 ACRA rules — severity is always stamped from the rule book, never inferred by the model. Findings a regulator can defend.
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From vulnerability to tested merge request, automatically — a 12-stage remediation pipeline with 4 interchangeable LLM providers. Fixes ship only when the tests pass.
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Turns teacher tracking data into per-child learning insights — a Pub/Sub-driven agent pipeline (retrieval → summarise → evaluate) with end-to-end correlation tracing.
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Every deployment, 2016 → now. Expand an era to read the case files.
🏢 NCS Group — Singapore Government platforms · 2023 → now
ShiftRing AI — AI-driven voice + chat customer support: natural-language understanding, multilingual responses, automated ticket creation.
AI NLU Voice Chat Automation
FWMOMCare — National migrant-worker health-monitoring app. Led the re-platform from a .NET monolith to Node.js/NestJS microservices, migrating MSSQL → PostgreSQL along the way.
Node.js NestJS PostgreSQL Microservices
Exit Pass — Manages exit permissions and location quotas for migrant-worker dormitory residents; integrated with SafeEntry and SGWorkPass.
GovTech National Integrations
MW Data Hub — Data platform tracking Access Code status for migrant workers, supporting COVID-19 containment policy.
Data Platform GovTech
Safe at Work — Portal for employers to verify the Access Code status of Work Permit, S Pass, and Employment Pass holders.
GovTech Employer Services
🚀 2359 Media — Team Lead (R&D) & Principal Engineer · 2022 → 2023
NUS IASS (National University of Singapore) — Platform connecting students to paid gig work that counts toward internship credit, giving businesses wider talent access. Shipped across web, iOS, and Android.
Node.js React Strapi PostgreSQL Payment Gateway
PCF Operational Relief-Staff App (PAP Community Foundation) — End-to-end relief-staff assignments, from job creation through payroll, spanning a CMS application and mobile app.
Node.js React AWS PostgreSQL
🧪 Logical Steps — Senior Product Engineer · 2019 → 2022
Ola Search Platform Suite (technical lead, 12-person team) — Conversational AI search: an NLP search engine on Apache Solr, a context-aware query engine, an intent engine matching queries to answers, the OlaBot chatbot (voice + text, rich-media responses, guided transactions), OlaNLP grammar/style correction, and an admin console for relevancy tuning.
Python Node.js React Solr Elasticsearch Docker Kubernetes TensorFlow
LNDDO — Fintech platform assessing SME creditworthiness from digital-footprint data to offer short-term business credit lines (UAE market). Architecture & framework design team.
Node.js React MongoDB Azure Redis
CardsPe (Zupcash) — Offline-to-online commerce: merchants launch online stores shareable through chat apps. Built from scratch — APIs, auth/storage microservices, orchestration middleware, data modelling.
Node.js Next.js MongoDB AWS Redis Elasticsearch
VISSION — Web-scraping platform: message queues between microservices, LDAP sign-in module, Express API proxy.
Python Flask Scrapy Puppeteer AWS Lambda
LS MQTT — Publisher-subscriber messaging on HiveMQ MQTT with a dynamic channel-management UI and an embedded-microcontroller proof of concept.
Node.js Next.js MQTT HiveMQ IoT
Power App — Blockchain dashboard integrating Ethereum smart contracts via Web3: live transaction history, chain state, and exchange data feeds.
Solidity Ethereum Web3 NFT Truffle
📚 Integra Software Services — Senior Programmer, Innovation & R&D · 2016 → 2019
iNLP (18-person team) — NLP engine for publishing: cognitive rule engine, custom spaCy NER models, FastText language detection routing to Hugging Face neural machine translation, MinHash/LSH de-duplication at scale, LSTM/CNN deep learning, and transfer learning with BERT, GPT-2, and T5; Rasa-based chatbot.
Python spaCy NLTK TensorFlow Hugging Face Rasa
iAuthor / iCorrectProof — Online author-proofing editor for Adobe InDesign content, designed from scratch as Scrum Master/SPOC: real-time grammar checking over sockets, an Electron desktop app plus PWA, automated multi-format document delivery, and blockchain-based peer review with Stripe/PayPal.
React Redux Electron Express Azure WebSockets
Project X (R&D) — InDesign-replacement rendering engine: in-browser PDF-as-HTML rendering via HTML Canvas. The work led to a patent application.
Node.js Canvas PDF.js Font Rendering
WK Digital Book Platform — Digital book platform with in-browser PDF rendering, a cron-based file-import engine, and localisation.
ASP.NET Web API MS SQL Angular
iRights & Pearson platforms — iRights: rights/permissions management for photo research (budgets, licensing scope, legal risk). Pearson Image Atlas (WCAG 2.0 AA accessible) and Video Collection (MyLab SSO).
.NET Angular Accessibility
🌍 Open Source & Side Quests
COVID-19 Dashboards — Built the Tamil Nadu COVID-19 dashboard and a real-time SAARC impact visualisation; contributed district-level GeoJSON to the Covid India project.
React D3 GeoJSON
npm Packages — 13 published open-source packages on npm.
Node.js Open Source
timeline
title 2016 → Now
2016-19 : Senior Programmer, R&D — Integra : Custom NER · NMT routing · patent filed
2019-22 : Senior Product Engineer — Logical Steps : Conversational AI search · fintech
2022-23 : Eng. Team Lead (R&D) — 2359 Media : NUS & PCF platforms
2023-24 : Tech Lead — NCS : FWMOMCare .NET → Node microservices
2024-26 : Senior Consultant — NCS Gov+ : Cloud architecture · ShiftRing AI
2026 : Forward Deployed AI Specialist — NCS AI Central : 4 AI platforms shipped
🤖 AI / LLM
⚙️ Languages & Backend
🎨 Frontend
☁️ Cloud, Data & DevOps
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