1st Runner-Up at the ASEAN Finals! Our Heicoders TA just set the bar even higher. 🔥 Massive shoutout to Seokyung, one of our brilliant Teaching Assistants, who competed solo in the AWS x AI Singapore National AI Student Challenge 2025 & clinched 1st Runner-Up at the ASEAN Finals, beating out 1,300+ participants from across the region. She didn’t just teach tech, she lived it. With no prior experience in LLM fine-tuning, she built a custom Q&A dataset, trained a LLaMA model on SageMaker, and powered through late nights, dead ends, and steep learning curves — all with that relentless “figure it out” mindset we admire so much. This is the kind of talent behind the scenes at Heicoders Academy. Our learners don’t just learn from instructors, they learn from doers, builders, and rising stars in the field. We couldn’t be prouder. Here’s to more wins, breakthroughs, and bold moves ahead, Seokyung. 💪 #HeicodersAcademy #LLMLeague #GenerativeAI #AI #MachineLearning #WomenInTech #AWS #SageMaker #TechEducation #TalentBehindTheScenes #FutureReady
Capstone SWE @ Intel | RMIT ITSE & AWS FCJ Ambassador | Regional Winner @ AngelHack HackGlobal '24 & NAISC AWS ‘25 | TA @ Heicoders | B.E in Software Engineering @ RMIT
🏆 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐙𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐭𝐨 1𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫-𝐔𝐩 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐍 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬 Amazon Web Services (AWS) 𝐱 AI Singapore 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 2025 – 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 This was my 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭-𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. I didn’t just participate, I 𝐰𝐨𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐧𝐚𝐦’𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 (among 1,300+ participants across 6 countries) and went on to become 1𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫-𝐔𝐩 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐍 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬 in Singapore! I had never fine-tuned a large language model before. But I jumped in, built a 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐐&𝐀 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐭 on Generative AI topics, and fine-tuned a 𝐋𝐋𝐚𝐌𝐀 3𝐁 3.2 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐋𝐋𝐌 on 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫. What started as a blurry challenge quickly turned into my biggest technical leap. And no, it wasn’t smooth. I hit performance ceilings, got stuck for a full week, reworked datasets, watched long trainings crawl at midnight, and documented every single experiment. But the mindset was always: 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭, 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞. This experience reminds me of something I deeply believe: 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲. 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭. 𝐈𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐥𝐲. The wins will come. Grateful to those who gave me the opportunity and support: Vincent Oh, Sengmeng . 邱胜铭, Ray Goh, Elsie Tan, Chandra Gunawan, Chee Jian Tan, Natasya K. Idries, Alexia Lee #AWS #AmazonWebServices #AISingapore #LLMLeague #AI #MachineLearning #LLM #AWS #GenerativeAI #SageMaker #StudentChallenge #ASEAN #Resilience
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