Humans of Kontinentalist: Siti Aishah

Today we are chatting (remotely) with Aishah to find out more about her and the work that she does at Kontinentalist!

Hi Aishah! What is your role at Kontinentalist?

Hello! I am a front-end developer. I work with writers to produce stories for the screen!

What is your background? How did you come to work at Konti?

I started working at Konti as an intern in August last year and came on full-time in September. At the end of April, I will have served eight months full-time.

I found out about Konti when I was doing my master’s in Urban Science at SUTD. My classmate showed me the BRI project, which was how I first came to hear about Konti. I noticed that Konti was doing a lot of data visualisation stuff, which I was really interested in at the time, and so I applied to be a front-end developer at Konti!

I only found out about data visualisation during my master’s course, to be honest. Before that, I was pretty clueless about what I wanted to do after graduation. Initially, I studied engineering for my undergraduate degree. The course I took was Engineering Science, which is a mix of different types of engineering and science. I then became a lab researcher after graduation; I worked on synthesising material to make sodium-ion batteries for the lab! After this, an opportunity arose at SUTD for me to do a master’s, so I decided to go for it. That was when I found data visualisation and devoted a lot of time to honing my skills there.