Hi, I'm
Welcome to my digital corner! Here, I explore ideas (code and non-code), bringing you along as I document my code and pen my thoughts.

I'm currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, working on AI safety. Previously, I worked at Open Government Products and interned at Roblox, SAP, GovTech, and InterSystems.

I majored in Computer Science and Philosophy at Brown University, specialising in AI/ML and Systems.
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About
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Jing Wei Nicholas Lim
Member of Technical Staff @ OpenAI
Computer Science & Philosophy @ Brown

Hi, looks like you made it down here - I'm Nicholas and welcome to my corner of the internet! Check out some of my projects above and my relevant experiences below. To the right are some of the things I write on in my blog.

I'm a maker - I like building and working with robots as they have a tangible effect on the real world + I also like working with my hands!

My interests are mostly concentrated around the application of AI/ML. In pursuing this, I'm currently working at OpenAI, and previously conducted research in reinforcement learning at the Intelligent Robot Lab @ Brown and in robotics at the Humans To Robots Lab @ Brown.

I want to use my programming knowledge to solve real-world problems - send me an email at jwnicholas99@gmail.com if there is something you want to collaborate on!

Recent Musings
> Gaming on a Microcontroller
22 November 2022 · 25 min read
> Design and Development
17 September 2022 · 10 min read
> Micro-Controlling Traffic Lights
19 August 2022 · 15 min read
> Initial Commit
18 August 2021 · 2 min read
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Experience
< Member of Technical Staff >
# Aug 2026 - Now · San Francisco, USA

Working on AI safety.

< Senior Software Engineer > Mar 2026 - Jul 2026 · Singapore
< Software Engineer > Feb 2024 - Feb 2026 · Singapore

Built and launched Postman, Singapore’s whole-of-government secure messaging platform that unifies all government SMS messages under one “gov.sg” sender ID. With >300 million messages sent, citizens can easily identify genuine messages from the government and avoid government impersonation scams.

React NestJS AWS Docker Datadog Grafana
< Software Engineer >
# Sep 2021 - Mar 2022 · Palo Alto, CA

Led design and implementation of decentralized finance (DeFi) app facilitating payments via Ethereum smart contracts, further integrating with SAP’s Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) platform. Stepped up as tech lead of SSI during team transition, onboarding and leading 4 new engineers.

Web3 Solidity Ethereum React Redux Jenkins NodeJS MetaMask Docker
< Software Engineer >
# May 2021 - Aug 2021 · San Mateo, CA

Built and deployed end-to-end high-throughput service in Golang processing 1K+ requests/s about Captcha challenges in real-time across tens of millions of users. Engineered scalable ETL pipeline using Airflow DAGs processing millions of data points for business intelligence and fraud detection.

Golang Docker Nomad Drone Kibana Prometheus Grafana Airflow Python Superset
< Machine Learning Engineer >
# Jun 2020 - Aug 2020 · Singapore

Improved object detection performance by 20% on personal mobility devices compared to previously deployed YOLOv3 model, through automating data extraction/annotation and greatly expanding hyperparameter search space using Bayesian optimization.

Python Docker AWS KubeFlow TensorFlow Powershell Darknet
< Machine Learning Researcher >
# Sep 2019 - May 2022 · Providence, RI

Publication: Skill Discovery for Exploration and Planning using Deep Skill Graphs (DSGs), ICML 2020 LifelongML - used DSGs to reduce large continuous MDPs into small discrete MDPs. Built AI training and inference pipelines for hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) research. Researched option termination classifiers for image-based observation spaces in HRL

Python TensorFlow PyTorch
< Software Engineer >
# May 2019 - Aug 2019 · Cambridge, MA

Implemented DataQuality framework to identify missing/malformed data in >20 categories of information in millions of health records.

SQL JavaScript ObjectScript
< Researcher >
# Mar 2014 - Mar 2017 · Singapore

Publication: A Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) to Detect Responses to Affective Audiovisual Stimuli from Electroencephalogram (EEG), IRC-SET 2017. Architected an AI-powered BCI to control a robot wheelchair using EEG and motor imagery

C# LEGO Mindstorms