My life and career goal is to help improve animal welfare and conserve threatened biodiversity in Malaysia. This passion, coupled with programming skills from my bachelor degree led me to pursue my PhD on animal disease monitoring and surveillance using mobile technologies, specifically utilizing Social Network Analysis (SNA) to predict disease outbreaks and expedite mitigation measures. I have led various biodiversity database projects during my PhD research, and managed to develop novel mobile applications catered for reporting species sighting and occurrences, and species identification. My skills in grid computing for scientific research prompted me to become a student member of Pacific Rim Application and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA). I have presented my research on cloud computing in PRAGMA conferences, and in 2014, I was part of the team that won the Student Expedition Programming Challenge for PRAGMA 27 meeting in Indiana, USA.

After I graduated with my PhD in 2018, I embarked on a new adventure in wildlife conservation with Rimba (rimba.ngo), a local wildlife conservation NGO, first as a monitoring specialist in Harimau Selamanya managing the SMART database and coordinating law enforcement patrols and tiger monitoring surveys. Recognising the severity of wildlife crime and gaps in Malaysia’s legislation related to wildlife crime prosecution, I became more involved in Rimba’s workshops to improve prosecutorial effectiveness among the Department of Wildlife and Nation Parks and to raise awareness on the severity of wildlife crime among the judiciary. In 2019, one of the judges that attended these workshops sentenced two poachers to the highest ever penalty for wildlife crime in Malaysia – MYR1.56 million and 16 years of jail.  In order to sustain this momentum, I founded my own organisation - Justice for Wildlife Malaysia (JWM).